Snooker

Sense Active’s Sensory Sport Programme, which featured a Sensory Snooker Programme supported by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), has won the Inclusive Coaching Award at the 2024 UK Coaching Awards. The awards ceremony was held on Tuesday 10 December in Leeds with the most impactful coaches and organisations being recognised and celebrated. The Inclusive Coaching Award is for a coach, project, programme or intervention that uses #GreatCoaching to...

Mark Allen won his first title of the season and equalled the biggest pay-day of his career by beating Luca Brecel 5-1 in the final of the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship in Saudi Arabia. Pictures from the final day Arguably snooker’s toughest match player, Allen scored a superb 4-2 win over defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan in the semi-finals and went on to outplay last year’s World Champion...

World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) is today delighted to announce that the historic first staging of the World Disability Snooker Championship will take place from 23 February – 3 March 2025 in Thailand.

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The world’s top ten players head to Saudi Arabia this week for the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship and fans across the globe will be able to enjoy all the action for free on DAZN. The event runs from December 18th to 20th in Boulevard City in Riyadh, and will feature the world’s best players – including defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, world number one Judd Trump, World Champion Kyren Wilson and the rest of the world’s top ten, plus two wild cards from Saudi Arabia. The...

Ever wanted to know more about the WPBSA / WST structure of officially recognised global qualification pathways to the World Snooker Tour? Watch our new video feature which sets out each of the qualification routes and how each of our current professional players earned their place at snooker’s top table for the 2024/25 season. WPBSA Tour Cards 2024/25 The post WST...

World number 84 Lei Peifan created history in the first ever final between two players born in the 21st century, beating fellow Chinese 21-year-old Wu Yize 9-5 to win the BetVictor Scottish Open in Edinburgh. Outsider Lei becomes the highest ranked player to win a tournament since 1993. Dave Harold was world number 93 when he won the Asian Open that year. Incredibly, Lei had never been beyond the last 16 of a ranking tournament prior to this week. He’s overcome a world class list of...

Pond’s Forge in Sheffield hosts the qualifying rounds of the Machineseeker German Masters from December 16-19, with all players seeded outside the top 32 battling for places in the final stages in Berlin in the New Year. Click here for the match schedule, and you can watch live on these broadcasters: Europe (including UK and Ireland) discovery+ China...

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Gary Wilson will aim to win the BetVictor Scottish Open for a third year in a row at the ranking event which runs from December 9-15 at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh. Tickets for the tournament are still available from just £15, for details click here. If you are watching from home or on the move, on television or online, the broadcasters are: Europe (including UK and Ireland) Eurosport discovery+ DMAX...

Tom Ford won the 9Club Shoot Out in Leicester, beating Liam Graham in the last few seconds of a dramatic final to win his maiden ranking title, 23 years after turning professional. World number 100 Graham, in his second season on the tour, looked set for a fairytale victory when he led by 20 points with little more than a minute remaining in the one-frame knockout event where every match lasts a maximum of ten minutes. But a missed red proved costly for the 20-year-old as it handed...

The World Snooker Federation (WSF), the global amateur arm of the WPBSA, held its 2024 General Assembly online on Friday 6 December 2024. The meeting was opened by WSF President Jason Ferguson, who welcomed delegates and friends from member federations around the globe. The independently audited accounts were presented by Treasurer Mike Peachey and unanimously approved by the members, which once again confirmed...

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has announced that this season’s WPBSA Q Tour Global Playoff will be held at the Pine Beach Belek Hotel, Antalya, Turkey from 11-13 March 2025. To be contested alongside the European Championships organised by the European Billiards and Snooker Association (EBSA), the Playoff will see three players earn a two-year World Snooker Tour card from the start of the 2025/26 season. Last year’s expanded event saw Welshman...

Don’t miss a moment of the 9Club Shoot Out from December 4th to 7th, with 127 matches to be televised live over the four days in Leicester. All matches last a maximum of ten minutes in this unique world ranking event. Mark Allen defends the title at the Mattioli Arena and there is still time to book tickets from just £22 – for details click here. If you are watching from home or on the move, the broadcasters are: Europe...

Terry Griffiths OBE, a former World Champion who was loved and respected throughout the snooker world, has passed away at the age of 77. His son Wayne wrote on Facebook on Sunday evening: “To our friends and snooker followers in general, we are deeply saddened to share the news of our loss. Terry Griffiths OBE passed away peacefully on 1st December, after a lengthy battle with dementia. He was surrounded by his family in his beloved home-town in South Wales.” Griffiths will be...

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The 2024 Victorian Plumbing UK Championship gets underway on Saturday at the York Barbican with the final world ranking list at the end of the tournament set to determine the field for January’s Masters.

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WST and WPBSA are sorry to announce that Mark Wildman, an outstanding snooker and billiards player and former Chairman of the global governing body, has died at the age of 88. Wildman had been living in Spain in recent years and, after a long battle with illness, passed away on Monday. Born in 1936, Wildman was an exceptional junior billiards player. He won the British under-16 billiards championship in 1951, and the British under-19 title in 1952 and 1953. In 1968, he won the...

Following the outcome of the independent tribunal involving Mark King, WPBSA Players (the players’ association) acknowledge the decision of the independent Disciplinary Commission announced yesterday. The WPBSA Players Board of Directors is extremely saddened by the actions of Mark King, who has been found guilty of such serious breaches of the WPBSA rules. WPBSA Players...

Gary Wilson was hailed alongside Newcastle sporting heroes like Alan Shearer and Bobby Robson by being awarded the Wilkinson Sword for Lifetime Achievement. The Wallsend cueman received the award at a ceremony last night. If came after two years which have seen him go from winning his maiden ranking title at the 2022 Scottish Open, to defending that crown a year later and then adding the Welsh Open to his CV back in February...

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