Robbie Williams beats Lyu 5-1, quite a surprise result and the manner of it, I think but i could be wrong but probably his best performance in a ranking event, possibly Quarters before. Please correct me if i am wrong as just guessing.
Mark Allen beats Mark Selby 5-3. 2 centuries a piece in a high quality match, best i've seen Allen play in a while this week and looks a bit trimmer than usual.
I'm going to correct myself as its just come on my twitter, Robbie Williams is through to the last 4 for the third time! previously he reached the semis in the indian open and the snooker shootout.
Selby pulled off a treble in his 147 after losing position. Probably the best shot in any 147 ever.
Yeah i see that, up there with Ronnie's deep screw left hander imo both class in different ways.
Ryan Day beat Allen in the final , after a shocking performance in the semis so noone saw it coming.
This weeks 900 was won by Andrew Higginson, who was the odds on favourite, i didn't watch too much and not really many other standouts bar Joe Johnson who can still pot a ball (long range was class)
Currently the Hong Kong masters, only 8 players , Selby lost to Fu first round 5-2, Higgins beat trump 5-4, Currently Robbo 4-2 up on Williams (who was called in last minute as Xintong tested positive for Corona. Ronnie v NG around midday UK time on selected betting sites and probably Eurosport 2
Northern Ireland - Home nations Ronnie went out yesterday to David Grace, to be honest it was shocking, he played awful had several chances went 2-0 up and then just looked like he didn't want to be there. Not sure if its down to the old Ronnie, or whether its down to his presenting work in Eurosport which he seems to prefer than playing in the smaller competitions.
Other top seeds who have lost so far: Lisowski Wilson Hawkins Bingham Trump (lost 4-1 to Aaron Hill, fantastic result for him) Ding
White incident, Jimmy had a mare on the table got beaten 4-0 and at one point had a run in with the ref. It was a two way thing, firstly ref called the wrong colour then laughed and apologised but then Jimmy wasn't happy as he had a tricky brown to middle then he sort of gestured (not the middle finger) towards the ref, he then got a warning and you will probably see more on social media for both sides.
Still pretty early rounds 2/3 being played today and tomorrow quarter finals.
Snooker 900 - This week alot of shocks, a couple of faves didn't make the finals (Ed Sherav, Josh Thomond), yesterday was the ultImate shocks with lots of close games and the fave losing in most, the final was between senior/seniors both over 65 i believe Patsy Fagon narrowly lost to Phillip Williams, the quality is not that great at times but can be a very nervy and decent watch. Week 6 of 8 next week on sportystuff.
Northern Ireland - Home nations Ronnie went out yesterday to David Grace, to be honest it was shocking, he played awful had several chances went 2-0 up and then just looked like he didn't want to be there. Not sure if its down to the old Ronnie, or whether its down to his presenting work in Eurosport which he seems to prefer than playing in the smaller competitions.
Other top seeds who have lost so far: Lisowski Wilson Hawkins Bingham Trump (lost 4-1 to Aaron Hill, fantastic result for him) Ding
White incident, Jimmy had a mare on the table got beaten 4-0 and at one point had a run in with the ref. It was a two way thing, firstly ref called the wrong colour then laughed and apologised but then Jimmy wasn't happy as he had a tricky brown to middle then he sort of gestured (not the middle finger) towards the ref, he then got a warning and you will probably see more on social media for both sides.
Still pretty early rounds 2/3 being played today and tomorrow quarter finals.
Snooker 900 - This week alot of shocks, a couple of faves didn't make the finals (Ed Sherav, Josh Thomond), yesterday was the ultImate shocks with lots of close games and the fave losing in most, the final was between senior/seniors both over 65 i believe Patsy Fagon narrowly lost to Phillip Williams, the quality is not that great at times but can be a very nervy and decent watch. Week 6 of 8 next week on sportystuff.
Personally I think Jimmy is in the wrong. Jimmy calls the ref a dinlo, which the ref laughs off & Jimmy goes back for a second pop. The referee would've had every right to give Jimmy a warning after the 'dinlo' remark, but gave him a second chance.
Northern Ireland - Home nations Ronnie went out yesterday to David Grace, to be honest it was shocking, he played awful had several chances went 2-0 up and then just looked like he didn't want to be there. Not sure if its down to the old Ronnie, or whether its down to his presenting work in Eurosport which he seems to prefer than playing in the smaller competitions.
Other top seeds who have lost so far: Lisowski Wilson Hawkins Bingham Trump (lost 4-1 to Aaron Hill, fantastic result for him) Ding
White incident, Jimmy had a mare on the table got beaten 4-0 and at one point had a run in with the ref. It was a two way thing, firstly ref called the wrong colour then laughed and apologised but then Jimmy wasn't happy as he had a tricky brown to middle then he sort of gestured (not the middle finger) towards the ref, he then got a warning and you will probably see more on social media for both sides.
Still pretty early rounds 2/3 being played today and tomorrow quarter finals.
Snooker 900 - This week alot of shocks, a couple of faves didn't make the finals (Ed Sherav, Josh Thomond), yesterday was the ultImate shocks with lots of close games and the fave losing in most, the final was between senior/seniors both over 65 i believe Patsy Fagon narrowly lost to Phillip Williams, the quality is not that great at times but can be a very nervy and decent watch. Week 6 of 8 next week on sportystuff.
Personally I think Jimmy is in the wrong. Jimmy calls the ref a dinlo, which the ref laughs off & Jimmy goes back for a second pop. The referee would've had every right to give Jimmy a warning after the 'dinlo' remark, but gave him a second chance.
That was my take anyway
I agree, i can see how the ref's nervous laughter didn't help matters too. But Jimmy should know better, although as he really struggles he's probably overly trying making him react. He did say going into the tourney that he is playing better than ever, but i am sure he says that before everyone.
Northern Ireland - Home nations Ronnie went out yesterday to David Grace, to be honest it was shocking, he played awful had several chances went 2-0 up and then just looked like he didn't want to be there. Not sure if its down to the old Ronnie, or whether its down to his presenting work in Eurosport which he seems to prefer than playing in the smaller competitions.
Other top seeds who have lost so far: Lisowski Wilson Hawkins Bingham Trump (lost 4-1 to Aaron Hill, fantastic result for him) Ding
White incident, Jimmy had a mare on the table got beaten 4-0 and at one point had a run in with the ref. It was a two way thing, firstly ref called the wrong colour then laughed and apologised but then Jimmy wasn't happy as he had a tricky brown to middle then he sort of gestured (not the middle finger) towards the ref, he then got a warning and you will probably see more on social media for both sides.
Still pretty early rounds 2/3 being played today and tomorrow quarter finals.
Snooker 900 - This week alot of shocks, a couple of faves didn't make the finals (Ed Sherav, Josh Thomond), yesterday was the ultImate shocks with lots of close games and the fave losing in most, the final was between senior/seniors both over 65 i believe Patsy Fagon narrowly lost to Phillip Williams, the quality is not that great at times but can be a very nervy and decent watch. Week 6 of 8 next week on sportystuff.
Personally I think Jimmy is in the wrong. Jimmy calls the ref a dinlo, which the ref laughs off & Jimmy goes back for a second pop. The referee would've had every right to give Jimmy a warning after the 'dinlo' remark, but gave him a second chance.
That was my take anyway
I agree, i can see how the ref's nervous laughter didn't help matters too. But Jimmy should know better, although as he really struggles he's probably overly trying making him react. He did say going into the tourney that he is playing better than ever, but i am sure he says that before everyone.
I'm on Jimmy's side. The ref should not have laughed - very unprofessional. Having said that, I didn't hear what Jimmy said. The commentary team were saying how seriously Jimmy takes it these days, so I'm not surprised he got annoyed.
Hey @johnnybev1987 I know you're a keen pool player. I've caught some of the ultimate pool league on freesports recently & watch a lot of their stuff on YouTube. I noticed some of the top snooker pros have signed up for 2023. Should be fun to watch
Hey @johnnybev1987 I know you're a keen pool player. I've caught some of the ultimate pool league on freesports recently & watch a lot of their stuff on YouTube. I noticed some of the top snooker pros have signed up for 2023. Should be fun to watch
Hi mate, yep i play pool alot (too much), i do watch ultimate pool, so far Mark Williams, Mark Allen and Ryan Day are joining the tour next year, will be interesting to see how they do. Allen used to play good level pool so probably expect him to do better, MJW lately has been playing as runs a club, will be interesting. I would assume if there is any clashes with WST they wont play that event, but still great exposure for the pool world.
Ultimate rules is also going to be the new rule set instead of World riles, so will only get bigger. My preference is Blackball which i play county level, but most of the events medway/kent are WR so that will soon change to International, there has been a few comps so far anyway. I think it woudl take at least a few years to see if local leagues stick with WR or go over to international.
Just wondering… was it ever confirmed one way or the other whether Ronnie O’Sullivan actually made a rude gesture in the world final?
He was officially fined yesterday after it went through appeals which he lost it was proven he did make a rude gesture(although the charge was for 2 one dating back to the UK Championship in 2021)
Fined 2k for making gestures and 2k for costs
Money won't bother him but I'm sure ref is happy he was proved right in the end
Just wondering… was it ever confirmed one way or the other whether Ronnie O’Sullivan actually made a rude gesture in the world final?
He was officially fined yesterday after it went through appeals which he lost it was proven he did make a rude gesture(although the charge was for 2 one dating back to the UK Championship in 2021)
Fined 2k for making gestures and 2k for costs
Money won't bother him but I'm sure ref is happy he was proved right in the end
Cheers Paulie, i didn't see that but agree its the right decision. Although the ref didn't help the situation, could have handled better but Jimmy shouldn't have gestured and got moody with him.
This weeks Snooker 900 winner is former tour player Ant Parsons, wasn't really a great week quality wise be he was deserved winner and never really looked in trouble winning both Monday nights and last night to qualify for the finals.
next week we have 3 former professionals and players around the tour so be a good one to tune in: Michael Holt Ross Muir Martin O Donnell Peter Deviln (people might have heard off as he's quite a character)
Day 1) you have those 8 players, the semi finalists get a pass onto Wednesday which is the finals night Day 2) 4 new entries plus 4 who went out first round the day before, whoever loses first round is going home Day 3) 4 that went through day 1, also joined by 4 who won first matches day 2, they play out to qualify
Simplest way to put it, each night they have a top price of £2k (guess), but wednesday is the key whoever goes through gets through to finals nights where the top prize of £12k IRRC.
Its probably more for the purists although slightly different rules, similar to shootout but 15 minutes. Its quite a nervy affair and a few senior players who have surprised a few. starts 10pm so its a bit late, most of the time i catch it when i get back but i do record it and sometimes catch up with ones i have missed, goes on until around 1230 most nights.
This is all on sportstuff (437 on sky) alternatively you can just go online and type in sportytv live and can watch it on your phone/ browser.
was due to play this morning but match was called off and Peter Lines given a walk over and lots of people wondering what had happened.
WPBSA released a statement this afternoon confirming Wenbo is suspended again(2nd time in 2022, after being suspended following a conviction of assault earlier this year)
Apparently this suspension is nothing to do with his earlier suspension and is a separate misconduct charge, so wonder what he has been up to now
Just wondering… was it ever confirmed one way or the other whether Ronnie O’Sullivan actually made a rude gesture in the world final?
He was officially fined yesterday after it went through appeals which he lost it was proven he did make a rude gesture(although the charge was for 2 one dating back to the UK Championship in 2021)
Fined 2k for making gestures and 2k for costs
Money won't bother him but I'm sure ref is happy he was proved right in the end
Blimey - six months for my post to be resurrected - took a while for that to be dealt with! Thanks for answering Paulie. 👍🏼
Just wondering… was it ever confirmed one way or the other whether Ronnie O’Sullivan actually made a rude gesture in the world final?
He was officially fined yesterday after it went through appeals which he lost it was proven he did make a rude gesture(although the charge was for 2 one dating back to the UK Championship in 2021)
Fined 2k for making gestures and 2k for costs
Money won't bother him but I'm sure ref is happy he was proved right in the end
Blimey - six months for my post to be resurrected - took a while for that to be dealt with! Thanks for answering Paulie. 👍🏼
Haha only saw today, that the outcome of the appeal was yesterday went to post and thought I would look back to see if there was a good post to tag it onto and saw your question, thought it was ideal 🤣
So Champions of Champions started yesterday... on ITV4 all week, yesterday Selby beat Lee Walker 4-0. Higgins beat Hossain Vafei 4-2, they meet in the evening 6-4 to Selby so goes through to the Semis. Today, we have Robbo v Fan, Wilson v Day Tomorrow, Trump v Brecel, Allen v Perry Thursday Ronnie v Milkins, Xintong v Mink (Ladies champion)
Snooker 900 - Last night Holt lost in the final but him and Martin O Donnell through to Wednesday finals, Ross Muir second chance this eve as lost to Holt in the first round last night.
From my previous post its £10k for the overall winner just FYI/update
Snooker 900: This weeks stacked field came to a finish, with Martin O'Donnell getting through to the finals, beating Ross Muir in the final. One week left before its finals night, Tony Drago features, Michael Georgiou, Harvey Chandler, Luke Simmonds. Monday 10pm sportystuff (can watch online) or on the TV channel sky 437
COC update Trump beat Luca Brecel 4-2 (shocking match, with neither players at the races) Mark Allen beat Joe Perry 4-2 Trump beat Allen 6-1, bit surprised with the current form
Today is Ronnie day! 1pm on ITV Ronnie v Milkins, Mink v Xintong follows, the winners play tonight 7pm.
COC update: Ronnie beat Milkins 4-2, decent game and Milkins played well with a century and 80+ , Ronnie looked good hit a century but long potting not quite there, match was about 70 mins so didn't last too long.
Xintong beat Mink 4-2, the ladies world champion put up a good showing and Xintong was misfiring and not looking quite sharp and knicked the last, Xintong will no doubt be more up for it so it should be a decent match.
Just watched the O'Sullivan VS Zhao and I had to come on here and say Ronnie is a fecking genius!
I actually missed it, half forgot and had the Arsenal game when i realised.
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Zhao Xintong 6-1, 2 centuries, assumed by the scoring and your words it was vintage Ronnie.
Semi Final 1 tonight 7pm: Judd Trump v Mark Selby best of 11 tomorrow 7pm: Ronnie v Fan Zhengyi (who beat Ronnie in a ranking final 10-9 to get into it) Final Sunday 1pm/7pm, best of 19
When he's on form, to my mind, Ronnie is the best snooker player there has ever been. He has got every aspect of his game under control and it all looks so effortless! I have followed snooker on and off for about 50 years and played it terribly during that time as well, so I think I have an inkling of his genius. And I wouldn't say I'm particularly a fan of his!
Just watched the O'Sullivan VS Zhao and I had to come on here and say Ronnie is a fecking genius!
I actually missed it, half forgot and had the Arsenal game when i realised.
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Zhao Xintong 6-1, 2 centuries, assumed by the scoring and your words it was vintage Ronnie.
Semi Final 1 tonight 7pm: Judd Trump v Mark Selby best of 11 tomorrow 7pm: Ronnie v Fan Zhengyi (who beat Ronnie in a ranking final 10-9 to get into it) Final Sunday 1pm/7pm, best of 19
UK Championship qualifiers start tomorrow
Ronnie wins 10-6 in final against Judd Trump, 6-1 down Trump made a 147, brought back to 6-3, in the afternoon session he came back within 2 but Ronnie took the last two, very high quality from both.
UK Championship qualifiers since Saturday, main event starts this Saturday, top 16 have qualified, everyone else has to qualify.
BIG NEWS, Jimmy White has won 3 rounds, first 2 6-0, then last night beat Stephen Maguire 6-4, will face Dominic Dale in the final qualifying round. I am not a Jimmy fan by all accounts but he's played very well and punished yesterday so hope he can make it, tomorrow afternoon he plays.
900 - Last nights winner Ben Hancorn defeated Tony Drago in the final, 8 through to Wednesday, tonight 8 will try to qualify for Wednesdays mini final.
Cheers Clive , i forgot to update yesterday. 2nd part of judgement day is on youtube today, 1pm for the first 4 matches and tonight will be the last 4. I watched Jimmy last night and it wasn't as well as he played against Maguire , mostly due to Dale playing bad. No breaks over 50 for Jimmy, but still 6-1, great to see him make the UK Championshi[p at 60 years old, what an achievement, i would have said he might have been 50/1 to qualify , although i didn't check the odds.
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Robbie Williams beats Lyu 5-1, quite a surprise result and the manner of it, I think but i could be wrong but probably his best performance in a ranking event, possibly Quarters before. Please correct me if i am wrong as just guessing.
Mark Allen beats Mark Selby 5-3. 2 centuries a piece in a high quality match, best i've seen Allen play in a while this week and looks a bit trimmer than usual.
previously he reached the semis in the indian open and the snooker shootout.
Ryan Day beat Allen in the final , after a shocking performance in the semis so noone saw it coming.
This weeks 900 was won by Andrew Higginson, who was the odds on favourite, i didn't watch too much and not really many other standouts bar Joe Johnson who can still pot a ball (long range was class)
Currently the Hong Kong masters, only 8 players , Selby lost to Fu first round 5-2, Higgins beat trump 5-4, Currently Robbo 4-2 up on Williams (who was called in last minute as Xintong tested positive for Corona. Ronnie v NG around midday UK time on selected betting sites and probably Eurosport 2
Ronnie went out yesterday to David Grace, to be honest it was shocking, he played awful had several chances went 2-0 up and then just looked like he didn't want to be there. Not sure if its down to the old Ronnie, or whether its down to his presenting work in Eurosport which he seems to prefer than playing in the smaller competitions.
Other top seeds who have lost so far:
Lisowski
Wilson
Hawkins
Bingham
Trump (lost 4-1 to Aaron Hill, fantastic result for him)
Ding
White incident, Jimmy had a mare on the table got beaten 4-0 and at one point had a run in with the ref. It was a two way thing, firstly ref called the wrong colour then laughed and apologised but then Jimmy wasn't happy as he had a tricky brown to middle then he sort of gestured (not the middle finger) towards the ref, he then got a warning and you will probably see more on social media for both sides.
Still pretty early rounds 2/3 being played today and tomorrow quarter finals.
Snooker 900 - This week alot of shocks, a couple of faves didn't make the finals (Ed Sherav, Josh Thomond), yesterday was the ultImate shocks with lots of close games and the fave losing in most, the final was between senior/seniors both over 65 i believe Patsy Fagon narrowly lost to Phillip Williams, the quality is not that great at times but can be a very nervy and decent watch. Week 6 of 8 next week on sportystuff.
Personally I think Jimmy is in the wrong. Jimmy calls the ref a dinlo, which the ref laughs off & Jimmy goes back for a second pop. The referee would've had every right to give Jimmy a warning after the 'dinlo' remark, but gave him a second chance.
That was my take anyway
Higgins OUT
Murphy OUT
Yan Bingtao OUT
More seeds are dropping!
Quarterfinals today: Best of 9
12:00pm: Dave Gilbert V Zhou Yuelong
2pm: Neil Robertson v Mark Selby
7pm: Mark Allen v Mark Williams
7pm: Lyu Haotian v Anthony McGill
Matches on Eurosport, with the clash not sure if Haotian/Mcgill will be on Euro2, discovery if not betting sites worst case.
Gilbert was 4-2 up and went on to lose 5-4, a good match with both players playing quite well and could have gone either way.
Mark Allen retained the Northern Ireland open (Home Nationss) beating Yuelong in the final, also. climbs to provisional number one for the year list.
Last nights 900, only caught the end of it but Ant Parsons won the night beating Les Dodd in the final. 10pm on sportstuff Monday-Wednesday.
Ultimate rules is also going to be the new rule set instead of World riles, so will only get bigger. My preference is Blackball which i play county level, but most of the events medway/kent are WR so that will soon change to International, there has been a few comps so far anyway. I think it woudl take at least a few years to see if local leagues stick with WR or go over to international.
Fined 2k for making gestures and 2k for costs
Money won't bother him but I'm sure ref is happy he was proved right in the end
This weeks Snooker 900 winner is former tour player Ant Parsons, wasn't really a great week quality wise be he was deserved winner and never really looked in trouble winning both Monday nights and last night to qualify for the finals.
next week we have 3 former professionals and players around the tour so be a good one to tune in:
Michael Holt
Ross Muir
Martin O Donnell
Peter Deviln (people might have heard off as he's quite a character)
Day 1) you have those 8 players, the semi finalists get a pass onto Wednesday which is the finals night
Day 2) 4 new entries plus 4 who went out first round the day before, whoever loses first round is going home
Day 3) 4 that went through day 1, also joined by 4 who won first matches day 2, they play out to qualify
Simplest way to put it, each night they have a top price of £2k (guess), but wednesday is the key whoever goes through gets through to finals nights where the top prize of £12k IRRC.
Its probably more for the purists although slightly different rules, similar to shootout but 15 minutes. Its quite a nervy affair and a few senior players who have surprised a few. starts 10pm so its a bit late, most of the time i catch it when i get back but i do record it and sometimes catch up with ones i have missed, goes on until around 1230 most nights.
This is all on sportstuff (437 on sky) alternatively you can just go online and type in sportytv live and can watch it on your phone/ browser.
was due to play this morning but match was called off and Peter Lines given a walk over and lots of people wondering what had happened.
WPBSA released a statement this afternoon confirming Wenbo is suspended again(2nd time in 2022, after being suspended following a conviction of assault earlier this year)
Apparently this suspension is nothing to do with his earlier suspension and is a separate misconduct charge, so wonder what he has been up to now
Thanks for answering Paulie. 👍🏼
Today, we have Robbo v Fan, Wilson v Day
Tomorrow, Trump v Brecel, Allen v Perry
Thursday Ronnie v Milkins, Xintong v Mink (Ladies champion)
Snooker 900 - Last night Holt lost in the final but him and Martin O Donnell through to Wednesday finals, Ross Muir second chance this eve as lost to Holt in the first round last night.
From my previous post its £10k for the overall winner just FYI/update
This weeks stacked field came to a finish, with Martin O'Donnell getting through to the finals, beating Ross Muir in the final.
One week left before its finals night, Tony Drago features, Michael Georgiou, Harvey Chandler, Luke Simmonds. Monday 10pm sportystuff (can watch online) or on the TV channel sky 437
COC update
Trump beat Luca Brecel 4-2 (shocking match, with neither players at the races)
Mark Allen beat Joe Perry 4-2
Trump beat Allen 6-1, bit surprised with the current form
Today is Ronnie day! 1pm on ITV Ronnie v Milkins, Mink v Xintong follows, the winners play tonight 7pm.
Ronnie beat Milkins 4-2, decent game and Milkins played well with a century and 80+ , Ronnie looked good hit a century but long potting not quite there, match was about 70 mins so didn't last too long.
Xintong beat Mink 4-2, the ladies world champion put up a good showing and Xintong was misfiring and not looking quite sharp and knicked the last, Xintong will no doubt be more up for it so it should be a decent match.
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Zhao Xintong on ITV4 at 7pm
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Zhao Xintong 6-1, 2 centuries, assumed by the scoring and your words it was vintage Ronnie.
Semi Final 1 tonight 7pm:
Judd Trump v Mark Selby best of 11
tomorrow 7pm:
Ronnie v Fan Zhengyi (who beat Ronnie in a ranking final 10-9 to get into it)
Final Sunday 1pm/7pm, best of 19
UK Championship qualifiers start tomorrow
BIG NEWS, Jimmy White has won 3 rounds, first 2 6-0, then last night beat Stephen Maguire 6-4, will face Dominic Dale in the final qualifying round. I am not a Jimmy fan by all accounts but he's played very well and punished yesterday so hope he can make it, tomorrow afternoon he plays.
900 - Last nights winner Ben Hancorn defeated Tony Drago in the final, 8 through to Wednesday, tonight 8 will try to qualify for Wednesdays mini final.
Jimmy White has qualified for the UK Snooker Championship televised stage at the age of 60.
The six-time World Championship runner-up beat Dominic Dale 6-1 to seal his place in the last 32 in York - 30 years after he won the title.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/63571759