The tournament that all snooker fans wait all year for is now fully underway at the Crucible. The 2010 Betfred.com World Snooker Championships will no doubt entertain and may also throw up a few surprises along the way as well.
The first man through to round 2 was the defending champion, John Higgins, who came through a potentially tricky tie against Barry Hawkins. After trailing early on Higgins found another gear and won the match 10-6 to set up a match against either Mark King or Steve Davis.
Sunday was the real …

1997 World Snooker Champion, Ken Doherty, has been the latest former champion to make a return to the Crucible for this years Championships.
He absolutely demolished Joe Swail in the final round of qualifying with a 10-1 scoreline. The Irishman, who made two breaks of 74 one of 67 and a break of 81 when on a 147 chance, strolled into the TV stages.
The main draw will be done live at 10:30am on Thursday 11th March go to the World Snooker website for further details.
Other players also through to the TV …

The Betfred.com World Snooker Championship qualifiers are already into the 6th round of qualifying. The most interesting match of this round could quite possibly be former World Champion, Ken Doherty, against Jimmy White.
At the time of writing the best-of-19 frame match is currently 6-3 in Doherty’s favour with the second session later on today. White confirmed his place on the main tour for next season yesterday with a massively important win over Mark Boyle. White has been on record recently stating that in his mind he still feels that he …

The latest Pro Challenge event from World Snooker is taking place this week in Liverpool. Sadly there were only 39 entries to this…

Today is the final qualifying round of the Welsh Open snooker tournament, later on we will found out which 16 players will join the games elite…

Ken Doherty’s bid to win the inaugural 888sport.com Six Reds World Championship ended in a 5-4 defeat to Adam Duffy at the INEC in Killarney today.
Doherty fought back from 3-1 down to lead 4-3 but lost the last two frames as his campaign came to a halt in the last 32.
The 1997 15 red world champion was among the organisers for the first World Championship played under the shorter format.
But it was Duffy, who lives just a few miles from the Crucible Theatre …

Ken Doherty made a winning start to his bid to win the first ever 888sport.com Six Reds World Championship in Killarney today…

Ken Doherty believes the first Six Reds World Championship will catch the imagination of the snooker world…

It was a very strange day for snooker top stars as we reached day two in the 2009 Roewe Shanghai Masters.
The early match featured reigning champion Ricky Walden who in relation to other players throughout the day had a very easy passage into round two with a 5-1 victory over Mark King. Walden is defending a lot of points at this tournament but has once again proved that he is good enough for a top 16 place as his provisional number 12 suggests.
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Graeme Dott put the disappointment of having to pull out of last season’s Roewe Shanghai Masters behind him, with a 5-3 victory over…