While the professional season has now been completed, the race for tour places for 2010/11 rages on and this week has seen another eight names confirmed via the PIOS route. Click below to see who has already been confirmed for next season and where the remaining names will come from…
Tag: Steve Davis
Dott downs Allen to secure top 16 Return
Since his 2006 Crucible triumph Graeme Dott has endured a torrid time both on and off the table as he battled with depression and lost his top 16 place as a result, but happily the man from Scotland has now completed his revival with a very impressive 13-12 victory over Mark Allen this afternoon…
Davis clings on as all to play for after QF Day One
At 12-2 down it looked as though Steve Davis would come down to earth with a bump and suffer his first defeat at the Crucible with a session to spare since a 13-3 loss to Ken Doherty back in 1997. While he did manage to take the last two frames to extend the match to a third session however, the remaining three quarter-finals are all finely balanced headed into Wednesday…
O’Sullivan and Carter remain on course
It might be the most open World Championship for quite some time but with Ronnie O’Sullivan in the draw there is only going to be one favourite with the bookies and it is hard to argue with that assessment following his victory over Mark Williams this afternoon. Ali Carter meanwhile recovered from losing the opening five frames of the session against Joe Perry to get over the line a 13-11 winner…
The most open World Championship Ever?
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…
Crucible Diary 2010: Robertson Stuns Gould to Book Davis Re-match
Wow. This Championship just gets better by the day doesn’t it? Indeed it is certainly not often that a Crucible clash between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Williams becomes almost an irrelevance as they were completely overshadowed by the performances of Steve Davis, Neil Robertson and even Graeme Dott today! Click below for my Day Eight story…
Crucible Diary 2010: Allen and Gould light up Crucible Theatre
Day seven at this year’s World Championship has seen arguably the best two performances of the event so far as Mark Allen and Martin Gould played some super stuff against Mark Davis and Neil Robertson…
Note that hopefully I will have time to post an updated photo gallery either later today or tomorrow…