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Champions were crowned across eight classification groups at the 2024 The Cube UK Disability Snooker Championship at the Barratts Snooker Club in Northampton, England last weekend. Over 80 players embarked on the Northamptonshire town for the second ranking event of the 2024/25 World Disability Billiards & Snooker (WDBS) season and a memorable weekend saw titles defended, new winners crowned and two players rise...

The battle for the Steve Davis Trophy gets underway on Thursday at the Brentwood Centre in Essex, as the 2024 BetVictor English Open runs from September 12-22. The early rounds run from Thursday to Saturday, then the top 32 seeds join the action from Monday September 16th. Newly-crowned Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters champion Judd Trump will be defending the title in Brentwood, in a tremendous field which includes the likes of World Champion Kyren Wilson, Mark Allen, Mark Selby, John...

Tournament information including the draw and format for the second event of 2024/25 WPBSA Q Tour Europe is now available to view via WPBSA SnookerScores.

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Igor Figueiredo dramatically defeated Jimmy White on the final black to win his first Mr Vegas World Seniors Snooker 900 title at the Connexin Live in Hull. The success saw the Brazilian secure back-to-back televised titles on the World Seniors Snooker tour as he followed up on his victory in the World Seniors Championship at the iconic Crucible Theatre back in May. The unique event, which sees the competitors...

China’s Bai Yulu has ended the reign of Reanne Evans at the Taom UK Women’s Snooker Championship following a 4-0 final victory at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds.

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Record 12-time champion Evans was...

Judd Trump produced one of the all-time great pressure clearances to defeat Mark Williams 10-9 and become the inaugural winner of the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters. The duo put on one of the most dramatic finales to a tournament in recent years, with the Green Halls in Riyadh witnessing an epic deciding frame. With a top prize of £500,000 on the line and the runner-up taking home £200,000, the £300,000...

The World Snooker Federation (WSF), alongside Morocco Snooker, has today announced that the 2025 WSF Championships will be held in Saïdia, Morocco. The Championships will once again include two prestigious open tournaments that will offer direct qualification to the World Snooker Tour for each winner and will run from 18 January to 1 February 2025. Organised by the WSF with the support of snooker’s world governing body the WPBSA, the WSF Championships...

Kyren Wilson built on his World Championship success with a 10-8 final victory over Judd Trump to win the new Xi’an Grand Prix in China.

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Andres Petrov defeated Ryan Thomerson 4-3 in a dramatic final at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds to win the first WPBSA Q Tour Europe event of the 2024/25 season.

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The Estonian cueist came through a record-breaking Q Tour field in West Yorkshire to secure the title and take an early lead in the Q...

Hong Kong China’s Ng On Yee has defeated Anupama Ramachandran 4-0 to complete a dominant performance at the WineCellars.com US Women’s Snooker Open and earn her 21st ranking event title at Ox Billiards, Seattle. The victory sees the world number two ranked player continue her rich vein of form on the World Women’s Snooker Tour, which has seen her lift...

Six champions from three different nations won titles at the second staging of the WDBS Shanghai Disability Snooker Invitational in Shanghai, China last weekend.

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The event was organised in conjunction with the Shanghai Billiards Association (SHBA), with whom WDBS...

Adam Lilley defeated Ian Muir 6-0 in the final of the 2024 New Zealand National Snooker Championship to win the title for the first time in his career.

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Organised by the New Zealand Billiards & Snooker Association (NZBSA), the event saw 70 cueists head to Cuthberts Green in Christchurch, New Zealand to compete for the prestigious national crown...

Judd Trump demolished Shaun Murphy 11-5 to win the Shanghai Masters for the first time in his career. Victory ends a string of heartbreaking final defeats in Shanghai for the Ace in the Pack. He surrendered a 7-3 lead to lose the 2012 final 10-9 against John Higgins. Trump then suffered another 10-9 defeat against Kyren Wilson in 2015 and was beaten 10-3 by Ronnie O’Sullivan in 2017...

Following the extremely sad news earlier today of the passing of six-time world champion Ray Reardon MBE, we spoke to WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson and former UK Championship winner John Virgo to reflect upon his unparalled life in our sport.

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The 2024 Champion of Champions at the Landywood Snooker Club last month brought the 2023/24 World Disability Billiards & Snooker (WDBS) season to a conclusion. The campaign saw history made both on and off the table as well as the continued global growth and success of the WDBS tour. As preparations for the new season begin, we take a look back at some of the main talking points of 2023/24. ...

The qualifying rounds of this season’s seven WPBSA Q Tour Europe events are now available to enter via WPBSA SnookerScores. Open to all amateur players, the events will be held from August 2024 to February 2025. A total of four World Snooker Tour cards will be on offer – with one awarded to the number one player in Q Tour Europe ranking list at the...

On 11th July 2024 Michael White was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment for assault occasioning Actual Bodily Harm on his then partner. The WPBSA does not tolerate such behaviour by a Member and has taken immediate action to remove Michael White as a Member of the WPBSA. The WPBSA had been monitoring the case and upon his sentence convened an emergency board meeting. A resolution was passed to cease Michael White’s Membership of the WPBSA with immediate effect. Therefore, Michael...

The latest 1st4sport WPBSA Level 2 Coaching course saw 13 delegates receive training from expert WPBSA coaches at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. Led by the WPBSA’s Head of Coaching and Training Development Chris Lovell alongside Level 3 Advanced coaches Andrew Highfield and Nigel Bond, the Level 2 course provides participants with the necessary training of how to safely plan, deliver, review, and improve the performance of both novice and intermediate snooker players...

Snooker returns to your TV screens from July 15-21 with the Shanghai Masters, featuring the world’s top 16 players. Ronnie O’Sullivan defends the crown and will be aiming for five consecutive Shanghai Masters titles. The field of 24 players includes all of the top 16 plus the four next-best Chinese players and four amateur wild cards. Click here for the match schedule and...