As the season enters its final phase, this week sees the first staging of the Haikou World Open, an event that with John Higgins installed as top seed, is being treated as an entirely new event, despite Neil Robertson’s success in Glasgow last year. Click below for my take on the draw…
Having earlier confirmed the return of the World Open on a five-year contract, World Snooker have also published the qualifying draw for the 2012 staging of the tournament which you can now view here at PSB. You will see that the draw appears slightly different than normal, an effect caused by the withdrawals of ten professionals including impressive newcomer Li Yan. Click below for a full list of absentees…
Snooker’s World Open will be staged in the city of Haikou on Hainan Island in South China for the next five years.
The world ranking tournament, which was announced at a press conference in China today (Monday), will be known as the Haikou World Open.
So here we go, a jam-packed month of snooker begins in Munich tomorrow as the PTC12 event resumes, with both crucial ranking and order of merit points up for grabs. Click below for a look at the main issues to look out for, as well as a few points to note about the upcoming World Open and more…
Good news breaking from Wembley today as the BBC have announced that they will continue to broadcast snooker’s biggest tournament’s for the next three years…
Not surprising news but according to Kevin over at TheSnookerForum.com and indeed Clive Everton in the Guardian, the BBC have decided to drop the World Open for next season and will instead cover just the UK Championship, Masters and World Championship…
Long format, short format – it seemingly makes little difference this year as both the World Open and World Championship tournaments have seen Australia’s Neil Robertson emerge as the winner. Click below for some of my observations on the tournament and what we have coming up during the next few weeks…
World Champion, world number 1 and now the World Open champion, things are going pretty well for Australia’s Neil Robertson at the moment. His latest title came following an emphatic 5-1 victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan…