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[28 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 1,322 views]
Williams Wins First Players Tour Championship Snooker Event

Mark Williams put on a tremendous display in the final of snooker’s first ever Players Tour Championship…

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[21 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 1,620 views]
Mark Davis Wins Inaugural Six Reds World Championships

Mark Davis pocketed a Christmas bonus of €10,000 by winning the inaugural 888sport.com Six Reds World Championship in Killarney tonight…

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[10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 442 views]
Snooker Pro Challenge Three Underway

Snooker’s Pro Challenge Series returned yesterday with event three being held at Willie Thorne’s Snooker Centre in Leicester…

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[15 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 559 views]
A New Maximum For Snooker?

Global Snooker has ‘unofficially’ launched an exciting new tournament that many believe will put the Twenty20 factor into the sport.
ONEFORSEVEN is being branded as Snooker’s ‘New Maximum’, an innovative incarnation of tournament snooker that can condense all of the action of a major snooker event into one-day.
A player will take on seven opponents, each for twenty-one minutes. At the end of the allocated ’147-minutes’, the player with the highest score will be deemed the winner.
Two-times world champion, Mark Williams MBE is backing the idea and will be one of the …

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[11 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 353 views]
Robertson and Ding to Contest Grand Prix Final

Yesterdays semi-finals at the World Snooker Grand Prix were two rather different affairs…

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[10 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 379 views]
Williams and Ding Reach First Semi Finals in Three Years

Former World Champion Mark Williams has bounced back after a couple of poor seasons, and a broken wrist, to reach his first ranking event semi-final in three years.
Williams defeated a lacklustre Robert Milkins 5-2 in the evening session at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall and performed a lot better than his match against Stephen Hendry in the second round. World Snooker report that Williams said, “I played more quickly than I had been, getting down and aiming and potting balls without thinking about anything. I felt like making breaks. When Robert gets …

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[13 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 466 views]
More Bad Luck for TCC Snooker Pro-am

Last week both Shaun Murphy and Mark Davis pulled out of their respective quarter final matches…

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[29 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 353 views]
Day Plays Stevens in TCC Quarter Finals

Ryan Day will play Matthew Stevens this week in the first quarter final of the 2009 TCC Snooker Pro-am. The all-welsh affair will be screened live online by Cuesport TV exclusively to subscription holders.
The tournament, that started in June, is now reaching the business end with a second quarter final between Darren Morgan and defending champion, Lee Walker, taking place on table two the same evening. Following this match will be the first semi final match to see who will reach the final on 13th August.
Next week will see Shaun …

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[18 Jun 2009 | No Comment | 350 views]
Snooker Stars to Play in Newport

The Tredegar Constitutional Club in Newport will once again be the venue for the TCC Pro-am. This small club in Newport with only two snooker tables will host the likes of Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy and Matthew Stevens.
Played every Thursday night starting on the 25th June until the final on August 6th, this tournament manages to attract big names and some very talented amateurs despite only carrying a £1750 first prize.
It is of course great match practice for the brand new season that starts late in July with the qualifiers …