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The first round of qualifying for the 2010 Roewe Shanghai Masters started this morning at 10am up at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield.
There are a number of interesting names making their professional debuts at this event none more so than the name Reanne Evans. The six-times World Ladies Snooker champion starts her first fully-fledged ranking event with a very tough opponent in Alfie Burden.
Burden himself has just won back his tour card, after a bit of a hiatus from top level snooker.
Evans, who is no-doubt the world’s best female …
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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 …

