Month: April 2025
Snooker’s elite return to The Crucible for the 2025 World Snooker Championship, and you can follow the latest results and schedule of play here. The sport’s annual showpiece features the world’s top 16 ranked players alongside a further 16 qualifiers as they battle it out for £2.4 million in prize money from April 19 to […]
Ding Junhui looks to maintain his dominant record over Luca Brecel when they meet in a mouth-watering World Championship second-round clash. One of the standout ties of the round puts the players ranked seventh and 10th in the world respectively at The Crucible. It is a fixture that has been very much to Ding’s liking, […]
Mark Allen produced a sensational maximum break against Chris Wakelin at the World Snooker Championship on Friday. Allen became the 11th different player to achieve a 147 at The Crucible as he produced perfection in frame 13 of their Second Round contest. The feat puts the Northern Irishman in line for a £40,000 bonus and […]
Mark Williams and Hossein Vafaei renew their rivalry when they lock horns in the World Championship second round at The Crucible. The pair came through tough first-round battles to set up this mouth-watering showdown; Williams recovering from 8-7 down to beat Wu Yize 10-8, and Vafaei overturning a 9-8 deficit to edge out Barry Hawkins […]
John Higgins faces Xiao Guodong for the third time in as many events, as the pair collide in the World Championship second round. Four-time World champion Higgins is aiming to progress to his 19th quarter-final – and fourth in succession – at The Crucible, where Xiao aims to progress beyond this stage for the first […]
Mark Allen looks to continue his dominant record over Chris Wakelin when the pair clash in the World Snooker Championship second round at The Crucible. The first match in last 16 of this year’s tournament gets under way on Thursday, and pits the two-time semi-finalist against the player fresh from claiming his maiden victory at […]
Ronnie O’Sullivan romped to a 10-4 victory over rival Ali Carter on his return to competitive action at the World Snooker Championship on Wednesday. O’Sullivan, who had not featured since January’s Championship League, reeled off five frames on the spin in a spell-binding second session display to continue his dominant head-to-head record over Carter. The […]
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ali Carter will renew their bitter rivalry in a mouth-watering first round clash at the World Snooker Championship. Undoubtedly the stand-out tie of the opening round at The Crucible sees seven-time World Champion O’Sullivan return to competitive action to face his Essex foe Carter. O’Sullivan has ended his three-month self-imposed exile from […]
Mark Selby launches his latest quest for a fifth World Championship title against Ben Woollaston in an all-Leicester battle on Wednesday. A clash of the Foxes comprises the penultimate first-round tie of this year’s tournament at The Crucible, where Selby lifted the trophy in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2021. Despite all those positive memories, the […]