SNOOKER SCENE BLOG

Among the qualifiers for next month’s China Open is Kurt Maflin, a Londoner now flying the flag for Norway. Kurt won four matches to qualify...

Reanne Evans will today attempt to win her first match on the main tour when she plays Ben Woollaston in the qualifiers for the China Open. ...

It’s that time of the year again where snooker folk start to look ahead to the World Championship. The seedings are now fixed for the Crucib...

Jason Ferguson, the chairman of the WPBSA, has written to the players to ask their opinions on changing the miss rule. At the recent Shootou...

It was an emotional night in Newport as John Higgins moved to third in the all time list of ranking event winners with a terrific display of...

I’m sure John Higgins didn’t mind last night’s second semi-final going the distance, but the world no.1 is playing so well that he would sti...

Like the police in Casablanca, Newport has rounded up the usual suspects with four world class players contesting the semi-finals of the Wyl...

How do you explain someone making a maximum in the opening frame of the match and then playing poorly for the rest of it? It wasn’t the exci...

Home players have had little to cheer at the Welsh Open over the years but they are guaranteed one quarter-finalist this year and Mark Willi...

Ronnie O'Sullivan is in Newport and it wouldn't surprise me if he played well this week. He's coming in at the latest possible s...

Mark Williams’s career at the top level has been defined by his long, consistent runs to latter stages of tournaments. He was in four of the...

Jack Lisowski can be forgiven if he didn’t sleep last night. The 19 year-old makes his television debut today against the world’s no.1, John...

The Wyldecrest Welsh Open is now the third longest running ranking event on the circuit but despite its heritage has ended up the poor relat...

The next week will decide which players will be seeded directly through to the Crucible and which will have to sweat it out at the Betfred.c...

With creditable candour, Mark Selby has admitted on his personal blog that he can be too negative in matches. Selby lost 9-7 to Mark Willia...

Wyldecrest Park Homes will sponsor the Welsh Open according to a story on their website. The mobile home park operator also sponsored the Wo...

Stephen Hendry and John Higgins head the field for the revived Scottish Professional Championship, which will be staged at the Lucky Break c...

Mark Williams was the champion at the German Masters and fair play to him for emerging victorious from a fascinating tactical duel with Mark...

Who wins the German Masters scarcely matters when set against the main function of the week: to showcase the huge interest that exists in Ge...

Mark Williams reached the UK Championship final a few weeks ago without really hitting the heights until the end of his semi-final against S...