Apr 24
During the recent World Championship qualifiers, World Snooker published the provisional calendar for the 2013/14 season, which as in 2012/13, sees a number of significant changes as the professional circuit continues to expand. Click below for a summary of the main changes, together with a ‘cut-off by cut-off’ round up of how the calendar shapes …
Mar 03
Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen has today become the first man to successfully defend a full-ranking event title since John Higgins at the 2011 Welsh Open, by defeating former UK Champion Matthew Stevens 10-4 at the Haikou World Open. Claiming his second ranking event title overall, Mark takes home the top prize of £85,000, as well …
Mar 01
Two days to go at the 2013 Haikou World Open and we are down to the semi-finals, as four former ranking event winners will battle it out for the trophy this weekend. It has been a strange tournament, with flashing lights, rain, overzealous photographers and flies all interfering with play, but despite all of that, …
Feb 27
Three days down at the 2013 Haikou World Open and with the last 16 line-up now complete, there is no shortage of quality remaining in the tournament, with just Mark Williams and Mark Davis of the top 16 to fall, in addition to the absent Ali Carter. Click below for a round-up of the tournament …
Feb 24
ITV4 is to show full coverage of snooker’s Haikou World Open, which begins next Monday. Extensive live coverage of the tournament in China begins on Monday 25 February, running from 6.10am to 3pm each day until the final on Sunday March 3. It marks a return to snooker for the ITV network, as the sport’s …
Feb 23
Ahead of the start of the Haikou World Open this Monday, it has been announced that recent German Masters winner Ali Carter has been forced to withdraw from the tournament on medical grounds, related to his ongoing battle with Crohn’s disease. Hopefully Ali will be fighting fit in the near future and in particular ahead …
Feb 06
For those of you who may not have seen it earlier today, good news coming from Dave Hendon at Snooker Scene Blog, who has revealed that this year’s Haikou World Open will be broadcast by ITV, marking their their return to ranking event snooker for the first time in 20 years. With the BBC down …
Dec 22
After a couple of enforced days away from the blog, click below for a review of the 2013 Haikou World Open qualifiers, which concluded on Friday, together with links to the updated tournament drawsheet and latest projected seedings…
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