Ronnie O’Sullivan was much fancied to make it out of the top quarter here in Shanghai but he was upset today by a great performance from Anthony Hamilton who made it through to the last eight. Otherwise though it was a day for the top seeds as five of the provisional top six joined him in the quarters…
After yesterday’s clean sweep for the seeded players in the wildcard round, today proved to be a more fruitful day for the lower ranked players as three were able to progress. Click below for a round-up of the day’s action and of course, the updated projected seedings…
Mark Selby seems to like playing in Germany as seven months on from reaching the final of the German Masters in Berlin he has now won the 2011 edition of the Paul Hunter Classic in Furth with a 4-0 victory against Mark Davis. Click below to read how…
My headlines get worse don’t they? Anyway today saw the conclusion of the last 16 stage as local hero Neil Robertson lost a thriller with Dominic Dale while it was a good day for players called Mark. Except for Mark Davis anyway…
After his revival of 2009/10 it has been a tough 12 months or so for 1997 world champion Ken Doherty but today he recorded his best win in some time as he overcome Scotland’s Stephen Maguire 5-2 in one of the day’s opening matches. Click for more on that and the day’s other action…
It was a predictably hard-fought final in Wuxi but Mark Selby has ended his recent run of final defeats with a 9-7 victory against Ali Carter to win the Wuxi Classic this afternoon. The action does not stop there however as Mark and Ali will now team up for the 2011 World Cup which starts tomorrow over in Bangkok…
Eight frames played in the final of today’s Wuxi Classic between World Cup team-mates Mark Selby and Ali Carter and the two remain locked at 4-4. Early on it was Mark who had the upper hand, moving 3-1 ahead at the interval before the next two frames were shared but it was Ali who finished the stronger, taking the last two of the session.
The action resumes shortly although unfortunately for viewers here in the UK, Eurosport will not be showing live coverage of the second session with highlights to be broadcast later this evening.
It feels somewhat strange to be talking about the start of a new snooker season in the middle of June but just weeks on from John Higgins’ latest Crucible triumph we stand on the eve of another season of professional snooker. Rather than come up with a set of coherent preview articles as Dave H has at Snooker Scene Blog, I thought I would think out loud for a moment as to what we have in store and consider some of the questions to be answered…