Ok so the qualifiers started earlier on today but better late than never and all that, click below for the final part of my World Championship qualifying preview…
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Race to stay on tour 2010: All you need to know
Following the completion of the China Open qualifiers this week there is just one more tournament to play this season for the vast majority of those players battling for their main tour places. With those World Championship qualifiers just weeks away I have attempted to summarise as best I can who looks safe, who looks doomed and who are the players right in there with a chance of survival. Click below for all the information…
UK Championship Qualifiers 2009: Order of Play and Preview
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…
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…
Main Tour Race Approaches Final Lap…
It goes without saying that the World Championship is the biggest tournament of the snooker calendar for all the players, but for those further down the rankings there is even more at stake than a shot at winning that famous old trophy…