Day two of the professional stages of the PTC9 event from Antwerp today and it was a good day for this year’s Crucible finalists John Higgins and Judd Trump who were among the eight to progress. Click below for more…
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Haneveer Quits Main Tour
While I was at the UK Championship qualifiers earlier this week in Gloucester it was announced that this weekend’s PTC9 tournament will be the last for Belgian number one Bjorn Haneveer as he has decided the leave the main tour…
PTC10: Draw and Schedule Released
Hot on the heels of this week’s tournament, World Snooker have today released the draw and playing schedule for the PTC10 event which you can view here.
The event will be staged at the EISS between the 27-30 November 2011.
Robbo’s Revenge Takes Killarney Crown
Neil Robertson has tonight become the second player after Ronnie O’Sullivan to win two PTC events in the same season with a 4-1 victory against Judd Trump in the final. Click below for more…
PTC8: Doherty Keeps Home Hopes Alive
Saturday at PTC8 saw Ken Doherty survive a series of deciding frames as the home favourite kept his hopes alive of victory at the tournament named after his friend Alex Higgins. More ominously however it was the progress of world number one Mark Selby that was perhaps even more eye-catching as he joined him in the last 16…
PTC8: Friday Round-Up
After that unheard of event last week of a week off, this weekend sees normal service resumed with the PTC8 event staged in Killarney and already the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Williams and Stephen Hendry have been sent crashing out of the tournament. Click below for a summary of Friday’s main stories…
O’Sullivan Critical of PTC ‘Blackmail’ – Is He Right?
Speaking today at the final of the 2011 Rileys Future Stars event as won by Welsh youngster Jamie Clarke, three-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has also taken the opportunity to criticise the current structure of the PTC events, being quoted as saying that he feels like he is being blackmailed to play in them. Has he got a point? Click below for my take…