March 27, 2012
Blog Archives
Ronnie’s withdraw from the PTC final still a hot subject
SO we have all heard the story about the way Ronnie O’Sullivan withdrew from the PTC final with a incident which started on the journey out to Ireland, Ronnie withdrew from the event stating medic grounds and as we all know by now he has Glandular Fever which is not something you can take a 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 …..
Shaun Murphy Blog – PTC double-bill
SHAUN Murphy is back in action this week with a PTC double-header in Sheffield at the English Institute of Sport. Friday will see him contesting the early stages of PTC 12 – the last 16 of whom will proceed to Munich for the concluding stages in early January. Then, on Saturday, he will begin his more …..
Rolling 147 prize pot clarification
If you are not on Twitter then you would probably not know about the rolling 147 prize pot confusion that has been happening over the past two weeks so I will try to explain. 9 days ago Mike Dunn made a 147 against Kurt Maflin in 12 minutes 12 seconds in frame 4 of a 5-0 white more …..
Shaun Murphy Blog – Practicing with Peter
I had a great day yesterday as Peter Ebdon came up to practise with me at the club. We go back a long, long way and I can recall my first ever experience of the Crucible Theatre was when I went to watch him play there in 1992. Peter and I lived in the same more …..
Life on the road
GOT back from Brazil yesterday and I’m back out on the road again this afternoon, off to Motherwell for the Premier League. Tomorrow, I’m out again in the latest PTC at Sheffield in the 11am games. It is brilliant being a professional snooker player at the moment as we’ve never been so busy. We’re having more …..
Bingham withdraws from PHC due to early delivery
World No.12 and Australian Open champ Stuart Bingham has withdrawn from The Paul Hunter Classic in Germany this week, the reasons for his withdraw are because his girlfriends Michelle Shabi is expecting their first child together, the due date is the 3rd of September but they think that a early delivery may be on the more …..
Woollaston Wins First Pro Title at PTC3
World No 60 Ben Woollaston surprised Graeme Dott 4-2 in the final to win snooker’s Players Tour Championship event three in Sheffield. Former World Champion Dott had beaten the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins and Stephen Hendry to reach the final, but could not stop inspired Leicester cueman Woollaston winning his first professional title. more …..
PTC 8 & 9 now confirmed
PTC 8 will be held in Killarney form the 20th to the 23rd of October at The Killarney Convention Centre I just took this off of The RIBSA website – http://www.ribsa.net/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=114:fancy-a-wildcard-for-german-masters?&Itemid=168 Just another bit of interesting news on the PTC event scheduled for Killarney this October. The organisers have confirmed that similar to the other more …..
PTC 2 Draw announced
Amateur Draw - http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/cc/7f/0,,13165~163788,00.pdf Main Draw - http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/cd/7f/0,,13165~163789,00.pdf Matches to watch would be John Higgins v Matthew Couch, Ding Junhui v Daniel Wells & Ali Carter v David Grace. The tournament runs from August 6 to 10 (with August 6 and 7 as the amateur pre-qualifying days) at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester.
Paul Hunter Classic Draw (PTC4)
The draw for The Paul Hunter Class has been made today by World Snooker with a total of 244 players in the line up. The professional side of the draw can be downloaded here, and the amateur pre qualifying here. The Paul Hunter Classic which is part of The Players Tour Championships (Event 4) will take place in Fuerth, Germany more …..
PTC’s goto Poland
World Snooker have just announced that a PTC event will goto Poland (PTC6) September 30 to October 2 Although they have not yet announced the venue or location I have been told that this event will be based in Warsaw.
PTCs Offer New Route For Tour Qualifying
Amateur players will have the chance to earn a place on the World Snooker Tour via this season’s Players Tour Championship. At the end of the 2011/12 season, the top eight on the final PTC Order of Merit, who have not already qualified by finishing in the top 64 of the world rankings, will be 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 …..
