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Wishaw snooker star and life-long Celtic fan John Higgins admits the Hoops' successful season in the Scottish Premiership has him in a good frame of mind to chase a fifth World title at the Crucible this month.
This week sees the greatest of the Triple Crown events kick off as the action in the main draw gets underway for the 2023 World Snooker Championship in Sheffield. The world-famous event will, as ever, take place at the legendary Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Yorkshire for the 47th consecutive season. Ronnie O'Sullivan is the defending champion, having beaten Judd Trump in what was a 18-13 win for The Rocket in the 2022 final, and he returns to defend his crown in what has been a so far underwhelming campaign for the snooker superstar.
Only a few yards from the stage door of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, gateway to a timeless sporting tardis where a potting potpourri of bow-tied giants have roamed since 1977, something stirs. And something whirrs. The tills at a sporting memorabilia shop bearing Ronnie O’Sullivan’s name – aptly titled the Ronnie O’Sullivan snooker shop – move faster at this time of the year than the great man himself.
Neil Robertson says he is hoping to learn from Ronnie O'Sullivan's World Championship victory last year as he aims to become a multiple world champion. Robertson has struggled for form since the 2021-22 season when he won four major titles, exiting the World Championship last year at the last-16 stage. Ad The Australian says he was impressed by O'Sullivan's ability to win matches and seal his seventh world title even though he felt the Rocket was not playing his best snooker.
Here is a fact to blow your mind: the last World Championship to feature two debut Crucible finalists was back in 1981. Steve Davis and Doug Mountjoy were each appearing in the world final for the first time. In every world title match in the 42 years since at least one of the finalists has been either a previous winner or runner-up.
Barry Hawkins reached the final round of World Championship qualifying with a 10-4 win over David Lilley, but was scathing about his performance at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The world No. 20 has been forced to qualify for the sport's biggest event for the first time since 2012, a year before he reached the final against Ronnie O'Sullivan and performed admirably in an 18-13 defeat.
Barry Hawkins reached the final round of World Championship qualifying with a 10-4 win over David Lilley, but was scathing about his performance at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The world No. 20 has been forced to qualify for the sport's biggest event for the first time since 2012, a year before he reached the final against Ronnie O'Sullivan and performed admirably in an 18-13 defeat.
Ken Doherty is two wins away from a first Crucible appearance since 2014, following a 10-6 win over Hammad Miah in the Cazoo World Championship qualifiers at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.