ROKiT Phones World Seniors Snooker (WSS) is today [5 August 2020] delighted to announce that the 2020 ROKiT Phones World Seniors Snooker Championship will once again be held at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre from 19-22 August. Won a year ago by the ever-popular ‘People’s Champion’ Jimmy White, the tournament will see a distinguished line-up of 16
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There was greater interest than usual in the amateurs at the 2020 World Snooker Championship Qualifying stage. Guest blogger Cluster of Reds writes: In 2019 James Cahill became the first amateur ever to qualify for the World Championships and to win in the same tournament. Cahill beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-8 in one of the greatest
How the amateurs fared at this year’s World Snooker Championship Read More »
Earlier this year World Women’s Snooker (WWS) picked out some of the highlights of the season. Of course, the end of the season has not concluded in the way that we would have liked with the unavoidable postponement of both the Festival and World Championship tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it has nevertheless
A look back at the World Women’s Snooker 2019/20 Season Read More »
World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) have announced that it has taken the difficult decision that no further events will take place during the remainder of 2020. “WDBS remains committed to disability snooker and to staging further competitions as soon as it is possible to do so safely. It is our intention at this time
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As we all know, snooker clubs are struggling as a result of COVID-19. Having been shut since March and after some of the lockdown restrictions were lifted, many clubs started to open from 4 July. However, this was only for the social side and not for snooker and pool. Even that was confusing as some
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The EPSB has put out an addition to their Covid-19 guidelines for clubs in the form of specific guidance for the restarting of junior clubs. EPSB Return to Play – Guidance on restarting junior snooker clubs These guidelines apply to England only, and have been produced to help clubs, coaches and players operate in line
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I recently received this package in the post. A tin of “Cue Balm” and a nice little micro-fibre cloth. Now I must confess to not having even heard of this and, to be honest, never use anything other than water on my cue. I normally just wipe it clean with a damp cloth and then
Lynch’s Original Cue Balm – a review Read More »
Day 2 of the World Snooker Championship qualifiers saw the completion of Round 1 and another 15 amateurs were involved. 5 of these amateurs made it through to Round 2 by beating professional players. Most notable of these results was Ben Mertens of Belgium beating last years amateur hero James Cahill 6-2. Cahill went to
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Saturday morning sees the return of the very popular junior snooker club at The Castle in Brighton. Run by WPBSA coach Kai Michael, the club gets on average 15 participants per week. As the World Snooker Championship Qualifiers gets underway, could a future World Champion be starting their journey to the Crucible? When things get
The Saturday morning junior club at the Castle Snooker and Sports Bar returns! Read More »
The news came out yesterday of the WPBSA taking over what one might call the “second string tour” to the WST main tour. “WPBSA Q Tour is set to be the most competitive amateur tour around. It will be made up of those players with a track record, and on the edge of professional status,
From Challenge Tour to Q Tour. A move in the Right Direction Read More »
