So after all the build-up and all the tournaments this summer, the new ranking event season is finally upon us and already the shocks are coming in. Click below to read the results as they come in throughout the day or here to follow the live scores over at Global Snooker…
Tag: David Gray
World Snooker Confirm Main Tour Wildcards
As was rumoured, World Snooker have today confirmed the four main tour wildcards for the 2009/10 season and it is obvious that they have gone for experience over youth. In addition the final Asian nomination has now been confirmed so we now know the full 96 players who make up the main tour next season…
2008/9 Player Reviews: The Unlucky 24
Whilst you might be expecting me to review the season by looking back over the various tournaments staged, as I have already done that (for half the season anyway), as part of my 2008 review, I am going to do things a little differently here.
Instead I am going to look back at the seasons of each of the top 96 players on tour, increasing in detail as we move up the rankings. Today sees me look back at the 24 players who barring wildcards, will have lost their main tour places at the end of the season…
Rankings Round-up
As the dust settles on what has been an interesting and unpredictable season of snooker, the time has come to look at how the rankings have finished up and also to the one-year rankings to see who is in pole position for next season…
David Gray loses tour place
It was always going to be a tough ask to reach the last 16 here for David Gray and so it has proved as he has lost out 5-1 to former professional Tian Pengfei in the wildcard round. Not only has he crashed out of the China Open, but he has now lost his main tour place as a result…
China Open 2009: Monday Schedule
This Monday sees the start of the China Open as the likes of Judd Trump and Ricky Walden get their campaigns off to a start in the wildcard round. Click below for the order of play…