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TOO GOOD 26 Aug 2013 | 09:53 am
Ronnie O’Sullivan once again proved himself to be too good for the rest by sweeping to victory in the Paul Hunter Classic in Furth, Germany. Focused, determined and playing at times superbly, O’Sulli...
QATAR SOLO 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
This is the day Ahmed Saif has been dreaming of. Today he gets to play the world champion, Ronnie O’Sullivan, live on television before, one assumes, a sizeable crowd at the Paul Hunter Classic in Fur...
HONOURING PAUL 20 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
The fourth European Tour event of the season is traditionally the best. The Paul Hunter Classic, staged in Furth in Germany, attracts big, passionate crowds, as befitting a tournament bearing Paul’s ...
WALDEN'S TITLE 18 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
Ricky Walden won the third European tour event of the season, the Bluebell Wood Open, at Doncaster Dome last night. After a frenetic few days snooker, the latter stages were, as ever, contested by th...
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, DAVID? 13 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
It was the 2000 UK Championship in Bournemouth. I was in the pressroom hammering away at some vital story or other when a voice in my ear, a colleague from TSN (later 110sport), broke the news: “Keep...
INDIAN SUMMER 11 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
It’s a festival of snooker in Doncaster this week, not a sentence that necessarily screams ‘thank God for summer’ but the Dome seems a good venue, if a little hot for some player’s tastes. 20 or so y...
THAIS AND LOWS 9 Aug 2013 | 04:27 pm
I was in Bangkok for the 1999 Thailand Masters when James Wattana was issued with a death threat. Wattana was told if he didn’t lose his match, he would be shot. The amiable Thai legend quipped after...
HE DID IT HIS WAY 5 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Any snooker player who wants to call themselves a professional should be forced to watch the edition of Sky’s Sporting Heroes broadcast last week which featured Stephen Hendry, a great model of profes...
THE MARK OF A CHAMPION 22 Jul 2013 | 06:46 pm
I doubt Mark Williams will get carried away by winning the Rotterdam Open but it marks a welcome return for him to snooker’s winners’ circle. It wasn’t just winning which will give him pleasure but t...
GOING DUTCH 19 Jul 2013 | 12:20 pm
The second European Tour event of the season marks a return for snooker to the Netherlands. It’s only taken 22 years. The only other Dutch event to carry ranking points was the 1991 European Open, in...
