Trailing 2-0 and looking on as Ding potted what looked to effectively be semi-final ball, Neil Robertson’s hopes of reaching the Premier League play-offs in Grimsby looked to be lost. Remarkably however, the Australian still found a way to pull a 4-2 victory out of the fire in a thrilling conclusion to the league phase of the competition last night…
The first semi-final of the 2012 International Championship might have been a best of 17 frames encounter, but Judd Trump required just ten today to defeat Peter Ebdon 9-1 and progress to his fifth world ranking event final.
As a further bonus, Judd also confirmed that he will become snooker’s new world number one when the rankings are revised following this tournament…
We are down to four players at the 2012 International Championship following the conclusion of today’s quarter-finals which saw Judd Trump edge closer to snooker’s top ranking, while Lu Haotian’s remarkable run came to an end…
Down to the quarter-finals at the 2012 International Championship and with Mark Selby heading home tonight, Judd Trump knows exactly what is required if he is to become world number one for the first time…
While I suspect that many people reading this blog will have a keen interest in snooker, of course there are many others who do not follow the sport. Indeed excluding those that I know through attending tournaments, I do not know more than a couple of people who have any great understanding of the sport at a professional level.
With that in mind, tonight I posed the question on Twitter as to if you could show a ‘non-snooker fan’ one frame of snooker, in order to sell the sport to them, which would it be? Click below for the best of the replies and to make your suggestion…
Further to my previous post discussing how Stephen Lee’s suspension might affect the Premier League, Matchroom Sport have now confirmed that next week’s meeting in Penzance has been cancelled, while Lee’s results have all now been removed from the Group B table…
Congratulations to world number 23 Barry Hawkins who today produced a terrific performance to defeat a below-par Peter Ebdon 9-3 and capture his first ranking event title in Bendigo.
