SNOOKER’s answer to T20 Cricket will be the theme when Thailand hosts the annual Six Red World Championship over the coming days. Now in its fourth year, some of the world’s top stars will take to the stage in Bangkok to compete to win snooker’s shortest format competition – one of the most unique events…
MARK Allen won his first silverware of the season after dominating a scrappy final against Judd Trump to lift the Paul Hunter Classic trophy. Despite not playing at his best, the world number nine battled his way to the winning line to get his hands on the season’s second European Tour event against the recent…
INSPIRATIONAL Ali Carter has said he can’t wait to return to the sport he’s loved all his life after spending a life-threatening past few months battling lung cancer. The three-time ranking event winner revealed the full extent of his trauma when he spoke to national radio station Talksport last night (Friday) and said how his…
ADITYA Mehta became the first Indian player to make a maximum 147 in a professional snooker event on the opening day of the Paul Hunter Classic event in Germany. The world number 49, who last year reached the inaugural Indian Open final, made the perfect break during his last 32 match against Stephen Maguire yesterday…
IN A NEW series of articles called Cue-Psych, The Old Green Baize explores the psychology side of snooker and how it can vary in many different ways and situations in the game. And on the week of Judd Trump’s 25th birthday – Scott Hassall from psychology consultancy Thought Sport assesses how the Bristol star’s mental…
FORMER world champions Mark Williams and Ken Doherty are among the names who will have to play a wildcard opponent in next month’s Shanghai Masters. As the major ranking event is on foreign soil, eight players have been drawn to play Chinese wildcard entrants before the first round despite ensuring qualification last week. Williams, who…
TWO-TIMES World Championship finalist Ali Carter has told snooker fans he plans to return to the game soon after completing chemotherapy for lung cancer. Carter, who reached the Crucible final in 2008 and 2012, has not played any snooker since it was announced he had been diagnosed with the life-threatening condition back in May. But after…
AMATEUR Sean O’Sullivan hopes his impressive run in last week’s Riga Open is the start of better times ahead as he bids to retain his tour place. O’Sullivan, who suffered relegation from the main tour last season, stormed into the quarter-finals of this season’s first European Tour event after gaining wins against Jamie Burnett, Mark…
XIAO Guodong, the man who last year made the final of the Shanghai Masters, has failed to qualify for this season’s event after suffering a surprise defeat in the qualifying stages. The talented Chinese potter, who lost to fellow countryman Ding Junhui in his first ranking final more than twelve months ago, lost out to…
MARK Selby yet again proved why he is the world’s best after he came back from 3-0 down to win the Riga Open final. The reigning world champion, playing just his second event since achieving Crucible glory in May, showed just what a tough nut to crack he is on the table after producing the…
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