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Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump will make up an eight-player invitational tournament when the Macau Snooker Masters begins in the resort city on Christmas Day. The former world champions flew to Asia to promote the event alongside Jack Lisowski, Marco Fu and recent Crucible semi-finalist Si Jiahui on June 28.
Former world champions Neil Robertson and Graeme Dott have the honour of breaking off the new 2023/24 snooker season at the Championship League on Monday in Leicester. Robertson – who denied Dott a second world title with an 18-13 win in the 2010 Crucible final – meets Ashley Carty in his Group 3 opener at 12:00 UK time in a section that also contains Liam Highfield and Adam Duffy. Ad It will be Robertson's first competitive match since he lost 13-7 to Jak Jones in the last 16 of the World Championship in April.
Neal Foulds has given his view after the WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) Disciplinary Commission handed down a raft of punishments following its investigation into match-fixing. Eurosport analyst Foulds has said he is bewildered by the course of action pursued by the 2021 Masters champion Yan Bingtao, who was banned for five years on Tuesday for fixing four matches and betting on the outcome of several others between 2016 and 2022. Ad Amid a range of punishments doled out pending an appeal to 10 Chinese professionals – which saw Liang Wenbo and Li Hang punished with lifetime bans in the WPBSA’s biggest investigation of match-fixing – Foulds could not understand why Yan would jeopardise his lofty standing in the sport.
Neal Foulds has given his view after the WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) Disciplinary Commission handed down a raft of punishments following its investigation into match-fixing. Eurosport analyst Foulds has said he is bewildered by the course of action pursued by the 2021 Masters champion Yan Bingtao, who was banned for five years on Tuesday for fixing four matches and betting on the outcome of several others between 2016 and 2022. Ad Amid a range of punishments doled out pending an appeal to 10 Chinese professionals – which saw Liang Wenbo and Li Hang punished with lifetime bans in the WPBSA’s biggest investigation of match-fixing – Foulds could not understand why Yan would jeopardise his lofty standing in the sport.
Stephen Hendry has described Ronnie O'Sullivan as the greatest snooker player of all time as he backed his old rival to win a record eighth World Championship in Sheffield. O'Sullivan equalled Hendry's 1990s record haul of seven world titles last year with an 18-13 final win over Judd Trump, but the Scotsman feels he has time on his side to become the most prolific Crucible winner in history. Ad Speaking on his YouTube channel Stephen Hendry's Cue Tips during a friendly few frames between arguably the two finest players in history on O'Sullivan's new practice table in Essex, Hendry was full of praise for the world No.
Michael 'The Hitman' Holt has spent the past 12 months coaching snooker since losing his professional tour card in disappointing fashion a year ago, but has used the enforced time out to learn a few lessons of his own. The former Shoot Out winner will join a 208-player scramble at Q School at Leicester's Morningside Arena next week (May 26-6 June) as he bids to return to the main circuit after failing to regain his tour card for the 2022/23 campaign. Ad Having dropped to 65 in the world following a 6-3 loss to Tom Ford in last year's World Championship qualifiers, Holt could not progress far enough at Pond's Forge in Sheffield at 2022 Q School to prevent his 26-year stay on the tour from coming to an end.
The provisional 2023/24 snooker calendar sees the sport return to mainland China for the first time since 2019 with the staging of three tournaments worth over £2m in prize money. The elite non-ranking Shanghai Masters (September), and Wuhan Open (October) and International Championship (November) – both enjoying full ranking status – will be the first events to be held in the country since the global pandemic decimated the sporting calendar three years ago.
Jimmy White celebrated his victory at the World Seniors Championship and said support from the crowd is what keeps him «trying my heart out.” White is one of the greatest players in the history of the sport and while he has not won a ranking title in many years, he has not retired from the full professional circuit yet, aged 61. Ad He is regularly seen in the qualifying rounds of major tournaments with occasional appearances in the early rounds, reaching the second round of the German Masters this season and the fourth round of the WST Classic, beating Judd Trump along the way.