Mark Williams, who won the World Seniors Championship in 2015, at only 39 – and has been teased for it endlessly since – is doing a charity exhibition in Cleethorpes, on April 12, 2019. This was brought to my attention by Nigel Coton, a player competing on both the Disability Snooker Tour and the Seniors Snooker Tour. Thank you Nigel!
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Nigel was able to give me a bit more information.
As mentioned, the exhibition is in support of the Health Tree Foundation . It is organised by Jamie Barrett, a former pro, who sadly lost his wife 3 years ago far too young. Jamie is from Grimsby, only a couple of miles away from Cleethorpes.
Here is an interview with Jamie, ahead of the 2016 UK Championship
As explained above, “Willo” will take on 12 “local” players, including Nigel Coton himself. Nigel can only play with one hand and will (try to) challenge Mark Williams to play him one-handed as well. This is something Mark occasionally does even in ranking events, although only for the odd shot. Here is a recent example.
Hopefully Willo will accept the challenge. Should be great!!!
If you have the opportunity, get yourself there, have fun and support a good cause!
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Those are the new posters for the World Seniors Six Reds Championship in Belfast and the World Seniors Masters in Sheffield, both sponsored by ROKiT
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At all events this season a ROKiT Hospitality area will be created which will in effect be the players lounge, it will serve beverages from the ROK Drinks portfolio including ABK Beers, ROK Natural Energy Drink, Bogarts Gin and Rum and more.
It’s great for World Seniors Snooker to get the support of such a prestigious sponsor. Indeed, the ROKiT company also just announced as headline sponsor for Williams F1. Here is photo is their drivers George Russell and Robert Kubica in front of the new F1 car using a ROKiT phone.
ROKiT support for snooker is nothing new. Jonathan Kendrick, chairman of ROKiT, sponsored Ronnie O’ Sullivan with his Oval Vodka brand in 2013 and we all know what happened next!
And, tomorrow, both Jimmy White and Reanne Evans will wear ROKiT logos when they clash at the Snooker Shoot Out 2019.
During the Six Reds Qualifier in Newbury, matches were shown on Snooker TV. If you missed them, you can still watch them. There will be more to come in future World Seniors comps as well. And some Snooker Legends Shows are there too.
Patrick Wallace 4-0 Steve Bird Garoid O’Connor 4-1 Andrew Milliard Lee S. Martin BYE Pat Patel 4-1 Boris Lazarov
Sean Lanigan 1-4 Marcus Lord Anthony Bonnar 4-1 Ray Grail
Scott Raper NS – Leo Fernandez W/O David Moritz v Craig McGillivray
Barry Pinches NO SHOW v Andrew Isitt NO SHOW
Neal Carroll 1-4 Nikolas Neale Wayne Cooper 4-2 Rhydian Richards Neil Craycraft W/O John Hunter
Dean Sycamore 0-4 Johnny Stevens Richard Emery BYE Andrew Bolter W/O Darren Mirza Lee Richardson 4-0 George Apperley
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Jonathan Bagley 4-0 Lyndon Paxford Sanjay Meghani 4-0 Pat Bonnar Mark White W/O Chris Hart Neil Herd W/O David McDonnell Aaoron Canavan 4-1 Robert Marshall
Karl Townsend 2-4 Dean Venables Simon Dent BYE Stuart Watson 4-1 Surrinder Gill James O’Sullivan W/O Rodney Goggins
Andrew Darken 3-4 Sean O’Shea Gary Filtness 4-2 Richard Somauroo Michael Wrigley BYE Tony Corrigan 4-3 Tony Knowles Gary Britton 4-3 Dermott Mouran Stephen Campbell 4-3 Jon Charlton
Guy Heys 0-4 Michael Judge
Last 32
Patrick Wallace 4-2 Garoid O’Connor Lee S. Martin 4-0 Pat Patel Marcus Lord 4-3 Anthony Bonnar Leo Fernandez 4-0 David Moritz Nikolas Neale BYE Wayne Cooper 4-0 Neil Craycraft
Johnny Stevens 3-4 Richard Emery
Andrew Bolter 1-4 Lee Richardson
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Jonathan Bagley 4-1 Sanjay Meghani Mark White 4-2 Neil Herd
Aaron Canavan 3-4 Dean Venables
Simon Dent 2-4 Stuart Watson James O’Sullivan 4-0 Sean O’Shea Gary Filtness 4-0 Michael Wrigley Tony Corrigan 4-3 Gary Britton
Stephen Campbell 2-4 Michael Judge
Last 16
Patrick Wallace 1-4 Lee S. Martin
Marcus Lord 1-4 Leo Fernandez
Nikolas Neale 3-4 Wayne Cooper
Richard Emery 3-4 Lee Richardson
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Jonathan Bagley 4-2 Mark White
Dean Venables 1-4 Stuart Watson James O’Sullivan 4-1 Gary Filtness
Tony Corrigan 3-4 Michael Judge
Quarter Finals
Lee S. Martin 0-4 Leo Fernandez Wayne Cooper 4-2 Lee Richardson
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Jonathan Bagley 4-0 Stuart Watson
James O’Sullivan 2-4 Michael Judge
Igor who recently won the Seniors World Championship Q6 Event in Houston, making a 146, has now won the Pan American Snooker Championship 2019, at the same place, earning a new two years Main Tour card starting next season.
2019 PAN AMERICAN SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP | FIGUEIREDO’S AMERICAN DREAM
Igor Figueiredo will make a return to the professional circuit after winning the 2019 Pan American Snooker Championship at the Q-Ball Snooker & Pool Club in Houston on Sunday evening.
This tournament is the flagship event for the newly formed Pan American Billiards and Snooker Association (PABSA), a continental federation serving players from both North and South America.
The competition drew a full capacity of 48 entries that featured representatives from Bermuda, Brazil, Canada and the host nation the USA.
Round-robin qualifying took place across the opening three days with the top three in each group advancing to the knockouts.
Brazilian Figueiredo eased through his section; topping Group A without losing a frame. Along with the seven other group winners, he went straight into the last 16 where he awaited the winner of a preliminary tie. For him that would be Saif Ibrahim (USA), whom he dispatched 4-0.
In the quarter-finals he faced current and four-time United States National Champion Ahmed Aly Elsayed. Despite dropping his first frame of the week, he progressed as a 4-1 victor.
Local Houston player Mark White was next to feel the dominance of Figueiredo in the semi-finals, as he went down 5-1.
Figueiredo’s opponent in the final was Chicago’s Renat Denkha who was also undefeated throughout. Denkha booked his final berth after ousting former professional John White (Canada), 5-4, in the other last 4 tie.
However, the final was a step too far for the American, as Figueiredo flexed his muscle to a 5-1 victory to collect the title, trophy and a two-year professional tour card that is active from the 2019/20 campaign.
Given Figueiredo’s class and pedigree it wasn’t a surprise to see him claiming the title in Texas. A recent six-season professional, he only fell off the top tier at the end of 2016/17. During his time on the circuit he reached the last 16 of both the 2017 Welsh and Gibraltar Opens.
Since then the 41-year-old has had success competing as an amateur. In Malta, last Spring, he conquered the inaugural World Snooker Federation Seniors Championship and later in the year he lost to Ken Doherty on TV in the final of the UK Seniors Championship.
At the same Houston venue the week before the Pan-Am Championship Figueiredo also won a World Seniors Tour World Championship qualifying event where he constructed a break of 146. The effort is believed to be the highest competitive break ever made in the United States.
2019 Pan American Snooker Championship
Results (from the quarter-finals onwards)
Igor Figueiredo (Brazil) 4-1 Ahmed Aly Elsayed (USA)
Mark White (USA) 4-2 Ajeya Prabhakar (USA)
John White (Canada) 4-2 Mark Collier (USA)
Levi Meiller (Canada) 1-4 Renat Denkha (USA)
Semi-Finals
Figueiredo 5-1 M.White
J.White 4-5 Denkha
Final
Figueiredo 5-1 Denkha
The image above is courtesy of Monique Limbos
Article written and published by Michael Day on the 4th February 2019
Let’s hope that this time, Igor finds sponsors allowing him to compete in most events so that he gets a proper chance to do his huge talent justice.
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