Snooker

It got to a point that travelling to the Far East for ranking event tournaments became a tedious matter for many of the top players but since COVID-19 hit the world all major events in China have been cancelled with no sign of being rescheduled. Elite sports management player Mark Selby has been a prolific…

John Higgins faced Neil Robertson in a quest to win his first English open title and Neil Robertson was trying to go one step better after being beaten by Judd Trump in last year’s final. Robertson made the better start racing into a 2-0 lead but Higgins aided by a smooth break of 90 in…

John Higgins battled back from 5-3 down to beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-5 and keep his dream of winning the English open for the first alive. In a match that was filled with drama it was O’Sullivan who started the better taking the lead with a break of 75. Higgins hit back in frame two with…

An emotional Mark King clawed on all of his 25 years of tournament experience to fight off Judd Trump and book a place in his 2nd home nations semi final. King who has been very vocal about the lack of earning opportunities held himself together extremely well to close out the match by 5 frames…

Judd Trump cruised into the quarter finals with a 4-1 victory over tournament top up Ross Muir. Judd is still not at his fluent best but is at the stage of his career that he knows how to win in second gear and now faces Mark King for a place in the semi final. Tournament…

Ronnie O’Sullivan powered into the last 32 in sensational fashion firing in 3 centuries on route to a 4-1 victory over Michael Georgiou. Ding Junhui continued his impressive comeback against his compatriot Tian Pengfei with a 4-1 victory. It’s great to see Ding return to competitive action after such a long break due to the…

With all the held over matches completed on day 1 the last 64 matches began and the tournament has now started to take shape. The morning session kicked off with The former Indian open champion Anthony McGill white washing Gerard Greene and Kyren Wilson beating Ashley Carty 4-2. Elite sports management player Steven Hallworth continues…

The English open has become an excellent addition to our calendar as part of the home nations series and with the roll on roll off format of fast paced best of 7s the excitement is non stop. Kicking off day 1 was the former German masters champion Kyren Wilson who faced a tough opening match…

Today we saw the final set of 24 players who wanted to ensure their place on the European Masters main tournament in February next year . We also saw Thepchaiya Un-Nooh achieve the highest score of the tournament with his 144 score . Here is a breakdown on todays match results where players were competing…

With only a couple of days left of the qualifiers we see another set of 24 players who were eager to secure those valuable frames needed for their chance to qualifier for the European Masters main tournament in February next year . Players are competing in the best of 9 frames. Lu Ning 4 v…