The third of the 10 Challenge Tour events takes place today in Riga, Latvia amongst cries from some on social media that the so-called secondary tour just isn’t working. It is certainly a shame that there are so few entrants, but at least those that do go are guaranteed a pay-out, even if it doesn’t
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Pic: David Grace on Twitter David Grace (right) receiving the Challenge Tour 2 Trophy from Jan Verhaas The second event in the Challenge Tour was won by David Grace on Wednesday at the Preston Guild Hall. David is now joint top in the rankings alongside Brandon Sargeant who won the first event. Grace lost his
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Staying at Preston after the Riga Masters and World Open qualifiers, the amateurs will now contest Challenge Tour 2. Click here for the draw: http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?event=752 There is a full 64 for this one but a notable absentee is David Lilley who qualified for the Riga Masters and the World Open main events last week. There are
You can see the results here: Challenge Tour 14 June 2018 Brandon Sargeant, the current EASB Premier Junior Tour champion, ran out the winner of the first Challenge Tour event beating former pro Luke Simmonds in the final to earn himself £2000. More importantly, Sargeant will be looking to build on this success in his
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The WPBSA and World Snooker Federation have announced that both Ng On Yee and Reanne Evans have been nominated to join the new Challenge Tour for the 2018/19 season. Although neither of them did enough to secure a place by right from Q School, they were nominated as a result of their top two places
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As the World Championships gets ready for the semi finals, and amateurs who dream of being there in the future get ready for Q School, many an ear pricked up at the announcement by Barry Hearn of plans for a new challenge tour. The tour, planned to start in 2018, is likely to be 10
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