Tag: Mark Allen
John Higgins and Mark Allen go head to head in an eagerly anticipated Northern Ireland Open final at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on Sunday. The four-time World champion and the home favourite are looking to land the first Home Nations title of this season. Victory for either will see them become only the fifth […]
John Higgins will play home favourite Mark Allen in the Northern Ireland Open final after a commanding 6-2 victory over Yan Bingtao in Belfast. The four-time World champion avenged his 10-8 defeat by the Chinese ace in this year’s Masters final after reeling off six successive frames at the Waterfront Hall on Saturday. Higgins had […]
Home favourite Mark Allen locks horns with Ricky Walden for a place in this year’s Northern Ireland Open final on Saturday. The two players have met on 17 previous occasions – with Walden prevailing on 10 of those – and this will be their latest showdown on the big stage at the Waterfront Hall in […]
Home favourite Mark Allen ended reigning champion Judd Trump’s 25-match winning streak at the Northern Ireland Open with a stunning fightback from 3-0 down to advance to the semi-finals on Friday. It was a day of great comebacks at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, with John Higgins and Ricky Walden also overturning early deficits to […]
Reigning champion Judd Trump faces home favourite Mark Allen in what promises to be a highly entertaining quarter-final clash at the Northern Ireland Open on Friday. Undoubtedly the pick of the last-eight ties at the opening Home Nations event of this season, the crowd should be in for a treat at the Waterfront Hall in […]
Home favourite Mark Allen produced a sensational maximum break in the opening round of the 2021 Northern Ireland Open in Belfast. Antrim ace Allen delighted a packed crowd at the Waterfront Hall by firing in a 147 break to complete a 4-1 victory over China’s Si Jiahui in Round One. Allen’s second career maximum included […]
Mark Allen crashed out of the British Open after suffering a 3-2 defeat against Hossein Vafaei in the second round on Wednesday. The world number 11 was the highest-profile casualty on day three at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. Allen boasted a perfect record against the Iranian, winning each of their four previous meetings. The […]
Stephen Maguire headlines the action as the second round of the British Open gets underway in Leicester on Wednesday. The world number nine is the highest-ranked player on display at the Morningside Arena, where the first round will also draw to a conclusion. One of a handful of players to appear in the last staging […]
Mark Allen survived a missed match ball from ex-partner Reanne Evans before snatching victory in a deciding frame to spare his blushes in Round One of the British Open. The historic clash was the first in snooker history between two former partners and provided drama aplenty at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. It came just […]