May 12, 2012
Blog Archives
China in his hands
CHINA-bound Kishan Hirani stepped up his preparations for the IBSF World Under-21 Championship with victory in the sixth and final leg of the Cuestars South of EnglandChampionship Tour. The Welsh Under-21 champion (left) defeated his compatriot and travelling companion Jordan Shepherd (Bridgend) in a one-frame shoot-out final at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon. Competing in his first Cuestars tournament more …..
O’Sullivan hints at retirement despite final berth
Ronnie O’Sullivan reeled off the two frames he required to book his place in the final against Ali Carter, then suggested this could be his last ever Crucible appearance. The Rocket lost the opening frame of the session after Stevens made a brilliant 116 but he responded with his own century and completed a 17-10 more …..
Carter books final spot
Ali Carter has reached his second World Championship Final after beating Stephen Maguire 17- 12 at the Crucible. With Maguire winning the last three frames of the third session to trail 14-10, a good start was essential if there was to be a fight back. A dramatic opening frame which lasted over 40 minutes was more …..
Hendry to promote Chinese Pool
One of the greatest players in snooker history, Stephen Hendry now has a new role – that of global ambassador for Chinese pool and billiards. The seven-time snooker world champion signed an agreement on Wednesday with the Joy Chinese Pool Sports Development Co Ltd to promote Chinese pool, an 8-ball game, which combines the precision more …..
Stevens just 2 frames away from round 2
MATTHEW Stevens is just two frames away from the second round of The BETFRED.com World Snooker Championships with the final session of his match against Hong Kong’s Marco Fu at 7pm tonight, Matthew leads 8-1 coming into the final session after taking the first 8 frames and only dropping the last frame this morning. I more …..
Welsh Snooker ace Jamie Jones Makes World Championship Debut
JAMIE Jones will make his Crucible bow tomorrow determined his world championship debut will be one to remember. The Neath snooker ace takes on 2005 champion Shaun Murphy tomorrow in the first round in Sheffield, the culmination of a childhood dream that began on the tables the Mackworth and Empire clubs in the town 14 more …..
Exclusive Ivy Zhu (诸瑛 Zhu Ying) Interview.
You may have noticed a new referee at this years UK Championships, her name is Ivy Zhu, she was born in Shanghai in 1982 and this year she is the first Chinese referee to appear at The Crucible, we caught up with Ivy a few months back for a quick Q&A session. Q. You have more …..
England Rugby forward Ben Morgan takes on Welsh Dragon Matthew Stevens
Whilst interviewing Matthew Stevens about his upcoming appearance in The Betfred.com World Snooker Championships first round on Monday against Hong Kong’s Marco Fu we had a spectator in the form of Scarlets, Llanelli and England Rugby Forward Ben Morgan. Ben came into Terry Griffiths’s Matchroom Snooker club in Llanelli to have a few frames of more …..
Boost for Campbell in China
As you all probably know Ronnie O’Sullivan withdrew from The PTC Final event last week due to illness, this is not a great surprise considering his withdraw a few weeks ago from The Haikou World Open, the reason for his ill health has been stated as Glandular Fever. When I first heard of this my first though more …..
Foul up and a mess with official Snooker rules
Whilst reading “The Official Rules of The Games of Snooker and Billiards” as published by The WPBSA I came across 113 errors! not spelling mistakes nor were they errors in the rules themselves but errors in political correctness. In total there are 61 instances of the word “He” and 52 instances of “His” published in more …..
Niky Adryana, Snooker video’s
Somebody said on the radio during The UK Championships that Snooker was only watched by old retired people, well let me introduce you to Niky Adryana a 26 year old from The Netherlands who is nuts about Snooker, see why in video 2 below. Here are a few of Niky’s video’s from The UK Championships more …..
Shaun Murphy sent to jail
Yes it is true professional Snooker player Shaun Murphy has spent the day inside but for all the right reasons! If you want to read a obviously product placed article on his visit to Lowdham Grange Prison you can always read The Sun’s article which mentions Power Snooker no less than 5 times, wonder how more …..
Redundancies looming at World Snooker
Speaking to one World Snooker employee in January this year whilst at The Masters about staff cuts they said “We are all worried in the office, although nothing has happened yet since Barry has come on board we are all very aware that redundancies may come”, 5 months later and this is the case. In more …..
Foul and a miss follow up
You may remember the article I wrote a few months ago – Miss Rule Canvasing by The WPBSA Here is a except from a letter sent out to players this week regarding The Foul and Miss rule. As you all know, the WPBSA sent out a consultation document regarding the Miss Rule. The outcome of more …..
