What a tournament we have had so far! Even before Steve Davis managed to do the unthinkable and knock out the defending world champion and provisional world number one John Higgins on Saturday morning the tournament was hard to call but after nine days I’m no closer to being able to pick a winner…
Although many of you will have read my look ahead to this year’s Betfred.com World Championship (click my WCS 2010 banner to the right for the links), today we have a special guest preview to the tournament from The Snooker Forum user odrl.
My thanks go to odrl for taking the time to write such an extensive and interesting preview, click below to read part one…
So it is almost time for the balls to start being potted as the waiting comes to an end. Click below to view the tournament schedule for the event and when your favourite will be in action…
Following on from Monday’s preview of the top quarter of the 2010 Betfred.com World Championship draw, here is my assessment of the second quarter, which features former world champion Shaun Murphy and UK Championship winner Ding Junhui…
John Higgins today saw his run of six successive ranking event semi-finals come to an end with defeating to the resurgent Welshman Mark Williams while Peter Ebdon bounced back from watching Neil Robertson make his first career 147 to book his last eight place…
Note that both my provisional and one-year rankings pages have now been updated.
Click here to view the updated provisional rankings, full story to follow…
With the World Championship draw now made and the tournament edging ever closer, I noticed today that there are a few interesting interviews with some of the players involved over at 110sport.tv…
As regular readers will have gathered by now, I do like to keep a track of the rankings, indeed I find the battles for the various different brackets fascinating. In reality however, are the rankings really that important? More to the point are they even fair? Having spoken to fans and players alike during the past few months, here are some thoughts on the system…