Barry Hearn faces a rival bid for control of snooker’s commercial arm World Snooker.
Former Olympian and businessman John Davison has already had his ideas backed by former World Champions Stephen Hendry and Peter Ebdon.
Ebdon himself was massively opposed to Hearn’s plans – which would see his Matchroom company take a permanent 51% stake in World Snooker and permanent clearly meant forever in the meat of these plans.
“You cannot possibly give control of the association away under any circumstances.” said Ebdon at the World Championships.
The rival bid would see Davison take …

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 …

Judd Trump got one step closer to an instant Premier League Snooker return yesterday by winning the Championship League group 3…

Stephen Hendry rubberstamped his qualification for the knockout phase of the 888sport.com Six Reds World Championship with a third successive victory in Killarney today.
Hendry, who won the 15 red world title a record seven times at the Crucible in Sheffield, beat Irishman Patrick Lally 4-0 to guarantee himself a place in the last 64.
And the snooker legend gave the thumbs up to the new event, which showcases a shorter, faster version of the game.
“It’s a bit of fun, although the competition …

Shaun Murphy finally put his Premier League campaign on track last night as he got into winning ways…

Shaun Murphy will be using tonight’s Premier League match as a building block for the rest of his season. The 2005 world champion has had a slow start to the season and that has really been reflected in his Premier League form. So far the Englishman has recorded two straight losses from his opening matches and he will hope that tonight he can change that against Marco Fu, who is also yet to win a Premier League match this season.
In the other match we have a battle of the heavyweights, …

The PartyCasino.com Premier League snooker returns this Thursday with round 5 of the league matches…

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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Stephen Hendry …