Matches to be played on Thursday, July 26 – race to five frames. Players in brackets indicate who the winner will play in the next round. There are four qualifying rounds in total. Thanawat TIRAPONGPAIBOON vs Mike DUNN (Jamie COPE) Scott DONALDSON vs Nigel BOND (Tom FORD) Aditya MEHTA vs Matthew SELT (Mark KING) Andy HICKS…
Winners advance to Round 3. There are four qualifying rounds in total. Thanawat TIRAPONGPAIBOON 5-0 Dechawat POOMJAENG Scott DONALDSON 5-3 Yu DELU Aditya MEHTA 5-2 James WATTANA Andy HICKS 5-1 Luca BRECEL Michael WHITE 5-4 Tony DRAGO Ian BURNS 5-4 Alan McMANUS Liam HIGHFIELD 5-3 Passakorn SUWANNAWAT David GRACE 5-4 Li YAN David GILBERT 5-2 Robbie WILLIAMS Alfie BURDEN 5-3 Ben…
JOE JOGIA has been banned from all involvement in snooker for two years and fined £2,000 following an investigation into suspicious betting patterns, it has been announced tonight. The ban, which runs until the conclusion of the 2013/14 season, follows the investigation into Jogia’s Sky Snooker shoot-out match against Matthew Selt in January when he pulled out of the match…
Matches to be played on Wednesday, July 25 – race to five frames. Players in brackets indicate who the winner will play in the next round. There are four qualifying rounds in total. Thanawat TIRAPONGPAIBOON vs Dechawat POOMJAENG (Mike DUNN) Scott DONALDSON vs Yu DELU (Nigel BOND) Aditya MEHTA vs James WATTANA (Matthew SELT) Luca BRECEL…
Winners advance to Round 2 Thanawat TIRAPONGPAIBOON w/o Hossein Vafael AYOURI Scott DONALDSON 5-4 Chen ZHE Aditya MEHTA 5-2 Paul DAVISON Luca BRECEL 5-3 Craig STEADMAN Tony DRAGO 5-4 Jamie O’NEILL Ian BURNS 5-1 Pankaj ADVANI Liam HIGHFIELD 5-3 Zhang ANDA David GRACE 5-2 Michael LESLIE Robbie WILLIAMS w/o Floyd ZIEGLER Ben JUDGE 5-2 Sam…
Matches to be played on Tuesday, July 24 – race to five frames. Players in brackets indicate who the winner will play in the next round. There are four qualifying rounds in total. Hossein Vafael AYOURI vs Thanawat TIRAPONGPAIBOON (Dechawat POOMJAENG) Chen ZHE vs Scott DONALDSON (Yu DELU) Paul DAVISON vs Aditya MEHTA (James WATTANA) Craig…
STEPHEN Maguire has won the first UK PTC event of the season but was made to do it the hard way after an impressive performance from youngster Jack Lisowski. This year’s World Championship semi-finalist beat the 21-year-old 4-3 in the final at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester to earn a winning cash prize of £10,000 and 2,000 ranking points. Lisowski, though, had…
BARRY Hawkins claimed his first world ranking title after a convincing victory over Peter Ebdon in the Australian Open final. The 33-year-old captured the title and his biggest achievement in the game since turning professional sixteen years ago by beating the former world champion 9-3 in Bendigo. Hawkins becomes the second ever winner of the Australian Open after…
MARK Davis is through to his second consecutive ranking event semi-final after knocking out Martin Gould in the Australian Open quarter-finals. Davis, who before the start of this season failed to reach a ranking event semi-final in his previous 21 years as a professional, has matched his performance in the Wuxi Classic last month in getting to…
NEIL Robertson’s hopes of winning a major a ranking event in his homeland of Australia were crushed to the ground earlier today after losing heavily to the in-form Mark Davis. Despite making a solid start with a break of 88 to take the first frame, it all went downhill after that for the Thunder from Down Under in…
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