First things first, happy new year to all, hopefully it will be a good one for everyone reading. I’m not generally one for predictions but this seems like as good an opportunity as any to make a few that will no doubt make for some amusing reading later in the year!
With the seedings now about to be revised following this week’s EPTC2 event, below I take a look at who are the winners and losers from the start of the season to this initial shake-up…
While the professional season has now been completed, the race for tour places for 2010/11 rages on and this week has seen another eight names confirmed via the PIOS route. Click below to see who has already been confirmed for next season and where the remaining names will come from…
It has felt like a long wait since Neil Robertson won the last ranking event back in October but tomorrow (Monday), sees the start of the UK Championship qualifiers as 79 of the 96 main tour players will be in action over the next eight days.
Continue reading this article for my preview and the Order of Play for the qualifiers…
One day into the Masters qualifiers and already we have seen a big upset as young Welsh prodigy Michael White has sent 1997 world champion Ken Doherty crashing out of the tournament at the first hurdle. Click below for that and all of the other results from today…
The Shanghai Masters got under way without any major upsets happening in the first session of the wildcard matches. Of the 4 wildcards in action early on, only one of them was to gain a victory, former main tour player Tian Pengfei.
World number 51 Dave Gilbert has admitted in an interview with the Tamworth Herald that he came “pretty close” to quitting snooker at the end of last season. Click below to read about why he chose to continue and how he hopes a change of attitude will prove rewarding…
The final qualifying round of the Shanghai Masters qualifiers is now underway and already it has been a mixed day for some of snooker’s top young talent. Incidentally the draw for the last 32 stage of the tournament is now available here on Global Snooker and I will be posting a full preview of it during the coming days…