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 up…
Trailing Australia’s Neil Robertson 3-0 in the final of the 2013 PTC Grand Finals this evening, few would have fancied Ding Junhui to come back and take the title, but that is exactly what happened as he reeled off four frames in a row in Galway to claim his first full-ranking event title since the 2012 Welsh Open…
Congratulations to world number nine Ding Junhui who has today made the fifth maximum break of his professional career, during his quarter-final match against Mark Allen at the 2013 PTC Grand Finals.
Coming in the opening frame of the match, the break consolidates Ding’s position in fourth place on the all-time list, standing behind Stephen Hendry (11), Ronnie O’Sullivan (11) and John Higgins (7), and at just 25 years of age, who is to say that he cannot eventually overtake those names on the list?
In terms of prize money, according to World Snooker’s Twitter account, the break will earn Ding £1,000 from the rolling 147 prize for PTC events, as well as the £2,000 tournament high break prize, provided that the break is no equalled this weekend.
The referee for the maximum was Michaela Tabb, marking the fourth maximum that she has officiated in professional competition.
Three long days down (almost), in Galway and Joe Perry has now completed the last 16 line-up, with a 4-2 victory against the higher-ranked Stuart Bingham this evening. Indeed there have been a few surprising results already, with the likes of John Higgins, Mark Selby and Judd Trump amongst those to crash out of the tournament at the first hurdle…
After an unusually quiet week in snooker with no professional action taking place, this week sees the conclusion of the 2012/13 Players Tour Championship, with the Grand Finals returning to Galway for a second successive season.
With a field of 32 this year and important ranking points up for grabs ahead of the upcoming seedings revision prior to the World Championship, click below for my thoughts on the draw…
It feels like a long time since I last prepared one of these, but with the final mid-season seedings revision looming large, below I take a look at how the rankings are shaping up ahead of the Crucible, with just the PTC Grand Finals and China Open tournaments still to be played.
I also take a look at how the draw for the World Championship is shaping up…
Joe Perry is hard at work on the practice table preparing for the PTC Grand Finals in Galway, Ireland, next week.
“I’d love to do well in the Grand Finals,” asserts Perry. “There’s no reason why I, like many of the players, can’t go out to Galway and win the event…
Belfast’s Joe Swail admits he has missed playing in snooker’s biggest tournaments as he looks forward to the Dafabet Players Tour Championship Grand Finals in Galway.
Swail will be one of 32 players battling for the £100,000 top prize in the event at the Bailey Allen Hall at the National University of Ireland in Galway from March 12 to 17…