January 29, 2012
Blog Archives
Hawkins flies to take Snooker Shootout Final
Barry Hawkins won the biggest title of his 16-year career by beating Graeme Dott in the final of the Partypoker.com Snooker Shoot-Out. The one-frame knockout event in Blackpool produced a series of exciting matches, and Dartford’s 32-year-old Hawkins was the last man standing. He pocketed his biggest cheque since turning pro in 1996: £32,000 for more …..
Maguire Breaks Trophy Drought
Stephen Maguire won a tournament carrying ranking points for the first time in nearly four years by beating Joe Perry 4-2 in the final of Players Tour Championship event 12 in Munich, Germany. Glasgow’s Maguire won the event, known as the Arcaden Shopping Open, with a fine display against Cambridgeshire’s Perry. The World No 9 more …..
Ford has a great drive through to PTC 11 Final to take the checkered flag in deciding frame.
Tom Ford believes he has the confidence to beat snooker’s top players after edging out Martin Gould 4-3 in the final of PTC11 in Sheffield. Leicester’s 28-year-old Ford won PTC3 last year and captured the second professional title of his career tonight with victory in this season’s penultimate short PTC event. Gould won the first more …..
Darren Morgan takes Seniors title
Darren Morgan saw off a series of snooker legends to win the Wyldecrest Parks World Seniors Championship. Welshman Morgan beat Cliff Thorburn, Jimmy White and Steve Davis on the final day of the event at the East of England Showground in Peterborough to take the £18,000 top prize. In fact the 45-year-old from Newport won more …..
Selby Wins Shanghai Classic
Mark Selby came from 9-7 down to beat Mark Williams 10-9 in an epic Bank of Communication Shanghai Masters final. Williams, usually calm under pressure, squandered chances to win in the closing stages and uncharacteristically lost his cool in the deciding frame. Leicester’s Selby took advantage to win only his second ranking title, improving a more …..
Wuxi Classic Draw
Wuxi Classic July 7th – 10th, Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium. £80,000 is the total prize pot for this event. Thursday July 7 1pm Peter Ebdon v Rouzi Maimaiti Matthew Stevens v Yu Delu 7.30pm Stephen Maguire v Liang Wenbo Graeme Dott v Cao Yupeng Friday July 8 1pm QF1 Shaun Murphy v Winner match more …..
Williams Excited By Snooker’s Return To Ireland
Twice World Snooker Champion Mark Williams hopes to continue his fantastic run of form at the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals in Dublin next month. The Welshman climbed to second place in the world rankings, his highest position in six years, by winning the German Masters two weeks ago. And the left-hander is now eagerly more …..
Bond, Milkins & White interviews from The Sky Shoot Out
Jimmy, Nigel and Roberts interviews are below, just click the links to listen. Sorry they are late again! but the internet connection at the venue was rubbish (this is getting to be the norm recently) I will have a rant about that in a separate blog post as this is not the first time. Jimmy more …..
