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The Matchroom Sport Charitable Foundation will pledge £25,000 to Jessie May Children’s Hospital at Home IF Rob Walker can reach the same target during his Absent Friends Tour in June. Our Master of Ceremonies is cycling 1,000 miles from John O’Groats to Land’s End next month in order to raise money for WST’s official charity… Read More

Do you have the talent and ambition to join the digital team at one of the world’s fastest growing sports, with the chance to travel around the UK, Europe and Asia? World Snooker Tour, which runs the sport’s global professional circuit, has a vacancy for a digital media officer. The role is based in either… Read More

World Snooker Tour stars Jack Lisowski, Gary Wilson, and David Lilley will all take on the World Nineball Tour at the 2023 UK Open Pool Championship set to take place at the Copper Box Arena in London from May 30 to June 4 live on Sky Sports. Draw/Bracket  Buy tickets here World number 14 Lisowski… Read More

The final world ranking event of the 2022/23 World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) Tour season was held last weekend at the Tradewell Snooker Club in Hull, with nine champions crowned in all at the Wilson Interiors Hull Open. View full tournament information The long-standing event which was first held in 2016, saw a record 76… Read More

Yuan Sijun won the Dongjiu Cup 2023 CBSA Haining Snooker Open on Saturday, beating Wu Yize 5-1 in the final to capture his second CBSA national title. World number 52 Yuan made breaks of 65, 69 and 80 in a high quality semi-final against Liu Hongyu. In the other semi, Wu beat defending champion He… Read More

Renowned writer Martin Amis passed away on Friday at the age of 73. He loved playing and watching snooker for much of his life. Here’s an interview with him which was first published in the 2010 World Championship programme… Martin Amis has created some of the most bewitching characters in recent British fiction. Notably Keith… Read More

In 1982, the newly crowned world champion Alex Higgins launched an assault on the music world. His single failed to chart, but the lyrics are revealing about the mindset of snooker players: “One four seven, that’s my idea of Heaven.” By David Hendon A year later, his great rival Cliff Thorburn achieved snooker perfection by… Read More

Can you figure out the identity of these players? Answers at the bottom of the page. I’m the first ever Iranian professional and winner of the 2021 Shoot Out. I’m one of Thailand’s greatest ever players and winner of the Thailand Open in 1994 and 1995. I was the first player to break the barrier… Read More

For 34 years, Rolf Kalb has been the key figure in snooker broadcasting across Germany, during a period which has seen the country acquire a legion of passionate fans for the sport. Whether it be commentating from his purpose-built home studio or working in front of thousands of people at the iconic Tempodrom in Berlin,… Read More

A special festival was staged in Maasmechelen in Belgium on Sunday to celebrate Luca Brecel’s achievement in winning the Cazoo World Championship for the first time. Over 500 people came to the festival to see local hero Brecel, who beat Mark Selby in the final at the Crucible earlier this month. The 28-year-old, who arrived… Read More