Keen observers of the tournament calendar for the 2013/14 season will have noticed a week’s gap between the 6 Reds World Championship and the venue stages of the Shanghai Masters in September.
Not every player will have the week off however, as eight top 32 players, including defending champion Neil Robertson and Shaun Murphy will head to Hong Kong, for the fifth staging of the General Cup International event in Hong Kong…
Following the conclusion of the Australian Goldfields Open yesterday, there is just one more event between now the season’s first seedings revision, ahead of next month’s Shanghai Masters qualifiers.
The event in question is the Rotterdam Open, which will take place this coming weekend and see those in contention battle it out to avoid having to qualify for Shanghai, or at least reduce the amount of matches required to do so.
Click below for an updated look at my blog from earlier in the month…
It might only be June in the 2013/14 season, but already the first seeding revision of the new campaign is fast approaching, with just two more events to come before the places are set for the Shanghai Masters.
While such seedings revisions will take on less significance in this new era of snooker, the Shanghai Masters remains one of the three ranking events to be played under the old system this season, this cut-off is one to keep an eye on.
Click below for a summary of who has to do what in Australia and Rotterdam, to secure a better seeding for Shanghai…
Three days down in Gloucester and snooker’s first foray into the land of flat 128 draws at a full-ranking event is over, with the conclusion of the first round of the Wuxi Classic today.
The action does continue tomorrow as the Australian Goldfields Open qualifiers get underway (see draw here), a tournament that will be staged under a modified version of the old system, but in the meantime click below for a round-up of the results from the Wuxi qualifiers…
Day fifteen at the 2013 World Championship and day three of the semi-final marathon, today we will find out who will contest this year’s Crucible final, as Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ricky Walden look to convert their overnight leads into victories today…
As the World Championship prepares to enter its final phase, today sees the quarter-finals played to a conclusion, as the identities of the last four players remaining at this year’s tournament are revealed.
Click below for updates throughout the day, with quotes from the players and my thoughts on the matches…
Day Two from the Crucible as today will see the conclusion of four more first-round matches, including those involving Shaun Murphy, Barry Hawkins and Ricky Walden…
So it begins, the 2013 World Championship in underway, Ronnie O’Sullivan having entered the arena this morning to a rapturous round of applause for the start of his match with Marcus Campbell.
Click below for the first part of my daily World Championship diary from the Crucible, which during the course of the 17 days will contain the latest post-match quotes, as well other other snippets of insight from what promises to be another thrilling tournament…