SNOOKER SCENE BLOG

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the Haikou World Open so far is that there haven’t been any surprises. On recent form it was hardly a s...

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s decision to defend his World Championship title is good news for snooker and, I suspect, good news for him.   O’S...

The first day of the Haikou World Open was largely underwhelming but this was down primarily to poor scheduling. This is not just down to ...

It hasn’t been the best sporting weekend for Bradford with the city’s football team losing 5-0 to Swansea in the League Cup final at Wemble...

The Haikou World Open is the fourth of five world ranking events staged in China this season. The previous three were won by Ricky Wald...

Joe Jogia has made a series of allegations concerning match fixing in snooker in an interview with the Sunday Mirror. Jogia was banned ...

When people look back, and they often do, at great World Championships, nobody ever mentions 1993. The annual Crucible marathon is inva...

Stephen Maguire ended a five year major title drought with a 9-8 victory over Stuart Bingham in the BetVictor Welsh Open final in Newport t...

I’m sceptical about ‘burnout’ in snooker but one player who will never cite it as a reason for poor results is Stuart Bingham. Why? Bec...

Ding Junhui and Judd Trump would appear to be on a collision course in what would doubtless be a terrific BetVictor Welsh Open final but th...

Today the young, exciting star of his sport takes centre stage in the quarter-finals of the BetVictor Welsh Open. That player is Pankaj...

Firstly some news at long last about Stephen Lee. World Snooker sa y he has a case to answer in relation to alleged match fixing at tournam...

Snooker isn’t even Pankaj Advani’s no.1 sport but he produced an assured performance last night to see off Shaun Murphy 4-3 at the BetVicto...

Surprises were thin on the ground on day one of the BetVictor Welsh Open but it was good to see Mark Williams, the only Welshman to win thi...

The BetVictor Welsh Open has something most tournaments do not: a history. It was first staged in 1992, growing out of the old Welsh Pr...

When the Welsh Open was staged at Cardiff International Arena, as it was from 1999 to 2003, it was one of the best tournaments on the circu...

The World Open will be broadcast by ITV4 in the UK, ITV's first ranking event snooker since the 1993 British Open. In the interven...

Ali Carter, the new Betfair German Masters champion, is one of snooker’s fighters. And he’s had to be. He’s had to fight just to keep h...