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Plymouth aspiring snooker star Haydon Pinhey secured the biggest win of his career by beating world number 21 Matt Selt in qualifying for the European Masters. The 25-year-old amateur narrowly missed out on earning a tour spot and turning professional at Q School in June.
Stuart Bingham lost his first match 3-0 at the Championship League in Leicester, but recovered strongly to win his next two in reaching the last 32. The 2015 world champion topped Group 11 by making four 50-plus breaks in a 3-0 win over Peter Lines and a 3-1 success against Cao Yupeng at a sweltering Morningside Arena.
Mark Williams demonstrated nerves of steel to knock in a superb clearance of 62 in the final frame to beat Liam Highfield in European Masters qualifying. The three-time world champion, who as his followers on social media will know has spent much of the summer playing pool, made a slow start and trailed 2-1 and 4-2. Ad/> But he is one of the strongest match players in the game and pegged Highfield back.
Robert Milkins has been fined a total of £7,000 following drunken behaviour and an altercation with guests at this year’s Turkish Masters. The Gibraltar Open champion accepted that he had breached World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) rules, as well as his World Snooker Limited Players’ Contract, at a WPBSA Disciplinary Committee hearing. Ad/> After the opening ceremony of the competition — which took place for the first time in March — Milkins was “very drunk”, before clashing with fellow attendees.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is set to make his return to action at the Championship League in Leicester on Monday. O'Sullivan is due to face Farkh Ajaib in the Group 1 opener from 12pm (BST) at the Morningside Arena. Ad/> He concludes the section from 5pm with matches against Alfie Burden and former English Open semi-finalist Alexander Ursenbacher in the season's first ranking event.
Robert Milkins made a winning start to the new season by topping Group 24 at the Championship League, the first ranking event of the campaign at Leicester's Morningside Arena. The Gibraltar Open champion rolled in breaks of 78 and 69 to defeat Sanderson Lam 3-0 before knocks of 63 and 67 helped him complete a 3-1 victory over Allan Taylor. Ad/> With Andy Hicks defeating Taylor and Lam respectively by the same 3-1 margin, Milkins only needed a draw with Hicks to ensure his spot in stage two.
World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is in line to make his return to competitive action at the outset of July with the Championship League event set to herald the start of the new snooker season in Leicester later this month. Former Masters winner Yan Bingtao and Gibraltar Open champion Robert Milkins are both in action on the first day of the season's first ranking event which begins on Tuesday 28 June at Morningside Arena and concludes with the final on Friday 29 July.
Robert 'The Milkman' Milkins admits he would love to deliver more success next season after finally experiencing the buzz of lifting a ranking title at the Gibraltar Open in March. The flamboyant Gloucester potter defeated Lei Peifan (4-0), Jamie Wilson (4-1), Mark Allen (4-3), Lyu Haotian (4-2), Ben Hancorn (4-2) and Jak Jones (4-2) before a 4-2 final success against Kyren Wilson saw him end a 27-year wait for a major trophy. Ad/> At the age of 46, he became the oldest maiden ranking winner since Doug Mountjoy defeated Stephen Hendry 16-12 to lift the 1988 UK Championship.