March 19, 2012
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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 …..
Allen down by £250 but how much will foul language cost Williams?
In a statement made by The WPBSA today Mark Allen will be fined £250 for swearing at a press conference in York in December, so if Allen is to be fined £250 for one incident then by my reckoning Mark Williams should be up to about £50,000 by now for his escapades on social networking site Twitter. Follow Mark @markwil147 on more …..
Premier League Snooker, Spiceball Leisure Centre, Banbury
Final: Mark Williams 1-3 John Higgins 1-130 (Higgins 125), 44-77 (Williams 43), 24-89 (Higgins 89), 22-69 (Higgins 48) John Higgins won the penultimate evening of PartyPoker.com Premier League Snooker but the real winner was Mark Williams who nabbed the requisite single frame to see himself through to the play-offs later on this month where he more …..
WPBSA Launches Inquiry into Shanghai Masters Final
The WPBSA has launched an inquiry into an incident in the 17th frame of last Sunday’s Bank of Communication Shanghai Masters final between Mark Selby and Mark Williams. The match was stopped for several minutes while referee Eirian Williams had to make a difficult call as to whether Selby had hit a red or the more …..
Williams To Face Selby In Shanghai Final
The world’s top two ranked players, Mark Williams and Mark Selby, will meet in the final of the Bank of Communication Shanghai Masters on Sunday. The pair had contrasting routes into the final, World No 1 Williams edging out Neil Robertson 6-5 while No 2 Selby thrashed Mark King 6-0. Williams has already won six more …..
Williams Takes Guildford Glory
Mark Williams got his 2011 PartyCasino.com Premier League campaign off to the perfect start by winning event two at the Guildford Spectrum on Thursday night. The World No 1 beat Shaun Murphy 3-1 in the final to take a maximum six points and join fellow Welshman Matthew Stevens at the top of the table. Rolling more …..
SEMI-FINALIST DOHERTY: I NEARLY QUIT SNOOKER
Ken Doherty reached the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time since 2006 – and revealed he nearly quit the game two years ago. Doherty, the 1997 world champion, produced ‘the best clearance of his career’ to complete a fantastic 5-3 victory over world number three Mark Selby and move into the final more …..
MARK WILLIAMS WORLD CUP PREVIEW
MARK WILLIAMS does not care if he keeps the number one world ranking place all season, so long as he has proved those who claimed he was yesterday’s man a few years ago completely wrong. Williams hopes to be on top of the world again next week – this time with Carmarthen’s Matthew Stevens – more …..
DAY HOPES TO PUT THE BLUES BEHIND HIM
RYAN DAY believes he can put the last few years behind him and fight back into snooker’s elite group of players. The Pontycymmer potter, once at number eight in the rankings, has dropped twenty places after a troubled 2010/11 campaign which only came back to life in the latter months. But, after a few months more …..
Williams to wed in the summer
I was passed some information a few days ago that indicated that Mark Williams and his long term partner Joanne Dent are to get married this year. I asked our reported at The Crucible, Imran Sidat, is quiz Mark on this at his earliest convenience and this evening he got the chance when Mark returned to The more …..
Higgins battles into World Final
John Higgins booked his place in the final of the 2011 World Championships after beating Mark Williams17-14. Trailing 13-11, Williams flew out of the traps and was on for a maximum until he went in-off the penultimate black. Higgins won the next to regain his two frame advantage before a 92 break saw Williams pull more …..
Resurgent Higgins edges ahead
John Higgins was in great form as he won six of the eight frames in the third session to pull clear of Mark Williams in their semi-final. Williams was in first with a 44 in the opening frame but Higgins eventually prevailed to cut the deficit to one frame. A break of 70 was enough more …..
Williams stays ahead of Higgins
Mark Williams leads John Higgins 9-7 after an entertaining second session of their semi-final. Williams won the first frame of the afternoon but Higgins hit back with a break of 84 to cut the deficit to two frames once again. A trademark opening long red from the Welshman in the next saw him make an more …..
Williams builds early lead over Higgins
Mark Williams leads John Higgins 5-3 after the first session of their semi-final. A nervy opening frame which lasted almost 25 minutes could have gone either way but it was Williams who sneaked it on the black after Higgins missed a frame ball pink. That didn’t seem to affect Higgins’ confidence as a brilliant clearance more …..
