This statement has been issued today by Jason Francis:
STATEMENT
In light of the recent Corona-virus situation the Rokit World Seniors Snooker Tour and Goffs Bloodstock regretfully announce the postponement of the upcoming Senior Irish Masters Snooker. The event, due to take place on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th March will now take place on Friday 31st July and Saturday 1st August. All purchased tickets remain valid for the corresponding session, anyone wishing a refund should contact ticketmaster.ie
Player line up and match schedule to remain the same, subject to player availability
The qualifying event for the WSS 2020 British Open was played at Pot Black, Clacton, next week-end. The winner of the event will play Jimmy White in Plymouth on April, 3, 2020.
1 Adam Denham 2-3 Steve Field
2 Dharmendra Patel 0-3 George Apperley
3 John Palmer 3-2 Richard Wykes
Last 64
Rodney Goggins (Ire) – Steven Porter Chell (Eng) W/O Patsy Fagan (Ire) 3-2 Aidan Owens (Eng) Lee S. Martin (Eng) 3-1 Boris Lazarov (Bul)
Wayne Townsend (Eng) 0-3 James O’Sullivan (Eng) Richard Emery (Eng) 3-1 Dennis Tristram (Eng) Dave Finbow (Eng) 3-0 Garry Coulson (Eng)
Michael Wrigley (Eng) 1-3 Steve Field
Matt Ford (Eng) 0-3 Stuart Watson (Eng) Aaron Canavan (Jer) 3-0 Kevin Kelly (Jer) Bal Sembi (Eng) 3-0 Ady Holley (Gue) Tony Knowles (Eng) 3-0 George Apperley
Ray Grall (Eng) 0-3 Jon Charlton (Eng)
Les Dodd (Eng) 2-3 Johnny Stevens (Eng) Gary Britton (Jer) W/0 Paul Reading Neil Craycraft (Eng) 3-0 Dean Venables (Eng)
Neil Carroll (Eng) 0-3 Lee Richardson (Eng)
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Michael Judge (Ire) 3-0 John Palmer Marcus Lord (Eng) 3-0 Daren Mirza (Eng) Stephen Campbell (Eng) 3-0 Steve Bird (Eng)
Philip Blackburn (Eng) 1-3 Cary Kikis (Eng) Gary Filtness (Eng) 3-0 David Brock (Eng) Karl Townsend (Eng) 3-2 Gary Millar (Eng) James Brown (Eng) W/0 – Mark Sutton (Eng)
Adrian Atkins (Eng) 0-3 Jonathan Bagley (Eng) Wayne Cooper (Eng) 3-0 Simon Chandler (Eng) Mark White (Eng) 3-0 Kevin Palmer (Eng) Mark Ball (Eng) 3-1 Colin Mitchell (Eng)
Andrew Darken (Eng) 0-3 Sean Lanigan (Eng) Dean Sycamore (Eng) 3-1 Ian Spawton (Eng) Garoid O’Connor (Eng) 3-1 Anthony Massey (Eng)
Bradley Jones (Eng) 2-3 Mark Gray (Eng) Patrick Wallace (Ire) 3-0 James Farrow (Eng)
Last 32
Steven Porter Chell 1-3 Patsy Fagan Lee S.Martin 3-2 James O’Sullivan
Richard Emery 1-3 Dave Finbow
Steve Field 0-3 Stuart Watson Aaron Canavan 3-1 Bal Sembi Tony Knowles 3-2 Jon Charlton
Johnny Stevens 2-3 Gary Britton
Neil Craycraft 1-3 Lee Richardson
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Michael Judge 3-2 Marcus Lord Stephen Campbell 3-2 Cary Kikis
Gary Filtness 1-3 Karl Townsend James Brown 3-2 Jonathan Bagley Wayne Cooper 3-2 Mark White
Mark Ball 2-3 Sean Lanigan
Dean Sycamore 0-3 Garoid O’Connor Mark Gray 3-2 Patrick Wallace
Aaron Canavan missed the yellow after potting 15 reds with blacks in his match v Bal Sembi.
Last 16
Patsy Fagan 3-1 Lee S. Martin
Dave Finbow 1-3 Stuart Watson Aaron Canavan 3-2 Tony Knowles Gary Britton 3-0 Lee Richardson
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Michael Judge 3-0 Stephen Campbell Karl Twonsend 3-1 James Brown Wayne Cooper 3-0 Sean Lanigan
Garoid O’Connor 2-3 Mark Gray
QFs
Patsy Fagan 3-2 Stuart Watson Aaron Canavan 3-2 Gary Britton
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Michael Judge 3-0 Karl Townsend Wayne Cooper 3-1 Mark Gray
SFs
Patsy Fagan 2-4 Aaron Canavan
Michael Judge 4-3 Wayne Cooper
The Final
Aaron Canavan 2-4 Michael Judge
And there is also a Super Seniors event:
This is the last Super Seniors event of the season.
Preliminary matches
Richard Emery 2-0 Neil Caroll
Richard Wykes 0-2 Colin Mitchell
Last 16
Gary Filtness 2-0 Kevin Kelly
Gary Miller 1-2 Les Dodd
Steven Porter Chell 0-2 Tony Knowles Richard Emery 2-1 Ray Grail
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George Apperley 0-2 Dharmendra Patel
Steve Field 0-2 David Brock Colin Mitchell 2-1 Dennis Tristram
Patsy Fagan – Ian Spawton W/O
QFs
Gary Filtness 2-0 Les Dodd
Tony Knowles 1-2 Richard Emery
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Dharmendra Patel 0-2 David Brock Colin Mitchell 2-0 Ian Spawton
SFs
Gary Filtness 2-0 Richard Emery
David Brock 0-2 Colin Mitchell
This SF win means that it’s Gary Filtness who will play in the 6-reds Championship in Coleraine in June. In fact Gary needed just one frame.
Here is Gary’s reaction right after the match. It says everything about how much it matters for those players. The competive beast in them never dies!
The Final
Gary Filtness 2-1 Colin Mitchell
An emotional Gary dedicated his win to Billy O’Connor:
Billy O’Connor was a talented young snooker player, and even more than that, a remarkable young person, who was taken away by ilness at the age of 18. Billy never stopped to fight, and never stopped to smile. He was managed by The Grove, for years Ronnie O’Sullivan’s management and he often played at Upton Park with Gary. Very ill himself, in his last months Billy was still playing snooker and trying to raise money to support fellow teenagers sufferers.
The Seniors British Open 2020 will be played in Plymouth on 3 and 4 April 2020.
The match ups for the upcoming ROKiT Phones.com Senior British Open which will be staged at the Plymouth Pavilions on the 3rd and 4th April, are as follows:
Opening the event on Friday 3rd at 7pm will be 7 times World Snooker Champion and 4 times former British Open Champion Stephen Hendry who will play 1985 World Snooker Champion Dennis Taylor. That match is followed by another cracker as the current World Seniors Snooker Champion, and former two time British Open Winner Jimmy ‘The Whirlwind’ White plays an amateur player who will come from a event in March.
All the legends will attend a VIP champagne reception before these matches start so a great opportunity to grab an autograph and photo.
On Saturday morning at 10am the four other remaining players do battle. Former World Number 2 Tony Knowles plays 1986 World Champion Joe Johnson and 1991 World Champion John Parrott plays 1980 World Champion Cliff Thorburn.
The afternoon session will see both semi finals contested and the final will be played that evening with one of our players klifting the trophy.
A pre-final VIP champagne reception is also available to purchase which includes a chance to meet all our legends PLUS our guest of honour… 6 times World Snooker Champion Ray Reardon.
Friday 3rd April @ 7pm
Stephen Hendry v Dennis Taylor
Jimmy White v (Amateur tbc)
Saturday 4th April @10am
Joe Johnson v Tony Knowles
John Parrott v Cliff Thorburn
Saturday 4th April @ 2.30pm
Winner Match 2 v Winner Match 4
Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 3
Saturday 4th April @ 7.00pm
The Final
Vip Packages are available for Friday and Saturday night sessions
The one amateur in the draw will be the winner of the qualifying event, played at Pot Black Clacton, next week-end.
The draw for this event is now available:
PRELIM MATCHES
1 Adam Denham v Steve Field
2 Dharmendra Patel v George Apperley
3 John Palmer v Richard Wykes
Left Half
Rodney Goggins (Ire) v Steven Chell (Eng)
Patsy Fagan (Ire) v Aidan Owens (Eng)
Lee Martin (Eng) v Boris Lazarov (Bul)
Wayne Townsend (Eng) v James O’Sullivan (Eng)
Richard Emery (Eng) v Dennis Tristram (Eng)
Dave Finbow (Eng) v Garry Coulson (Eng)
Michael Wrigley (Eng) v prelim 1
Matt Ford (Eng) v Stuart Watson (Eng)
Aaron Canavan (Jer) v Kevin Kelly (Jer)
Bal Sembi (Eng) v Ady Holley (Gue)
Tony Knowles (Eng) v prelim 2
Ray Grall (Eng) v Jon Charlton (Eng)
Les Dodd (Eng) v Johnny Stevens (Eng)
Gary Britton (Jer) v Paul Reading
Neil Craycraft (Eng) v Dean Venables (Eng)
Neil Carroll (Eng) v Lee Richardson (Eng)
Right Half
Michael Judge (Ire) v prelim 3
Marcus Lord (Eng) v Daren Mirza (Eng)
Stephen Campbell (Eng) v Steve Bird (Eng)
Philip Blackburn (Eng) v Cary Kikis (Eng)
Gary Filtness (Eng) v David Brock (Eng)
Karl Townsend (Eng) v Gary Millar (Eng)
James Brown (Eng) v Mark Sutton (Eng)
Adrian Atkins (Eng) v Jonathan Bagley (Eng)
Wayne Cooper (Eng) v Simon Chandler (Eng)
Mark White (Eng) v Kevin Palmer (Eng)
Mark Ball (Eng) v Colin Mitchell (Eng)
Andrew Darken (Eng) v Sean Lanigan (Eng)
Dean Sycamore (Eng) v Ian Spawton (Eng)
Garoid O’Connor (Eng) v Anthony Massey (Eng)
Bradley Jones (Eng) v Mark Gray (Eng)
Patrick Wallace (Ire) v James Farrow (Eng)
The qualifying event will be covered on this blog as it unfolds of course.
Rodney Goggins 3-0 Patsy Fagan James O’Sullivan 3-1 Tony Knowles Rory McLeod 3-0 Garry Coulson James Farrow 3-1 Richard Emery Jonathan Bagley 3-0 Bal Sembi
Mark Ball 2-3 Sean Lanigan Tony Corrigan 3-2 Stephem Campbell
Andrew Greaves 0-3 James Brown Wayne Townsend 3-2 Bradley Jones Cary Kikis 3-0 Dean Sycamore Wayne Cooper 3-0 Neal Jones Neil Craycraft 3-2 Gary Filtness Stuart Watson 3-1 Michael Wrigley Mark Gray 3-1 Jon Charlton Andrew Milliard 3-2 Garoid O’Connor
Gary Skypworth 2-3 Lee Richardson
Last 16:
Rodney Goggins 3-1 James O’Sullivan Rory McLeod 3-0 James Farrow Jonathan Bagley 3-2 Sean Lanigan
Tony Corrigan 2-3 James Brown Wayne Townsend 3-2 Cary Kikis Wayne Cooper 3-1 Neil Craycraft Stuart Watson 3-1 Mark Gray Andrew Milliard 3-2 Lee Richardson
QFs:
Rodney Goggins 1-3 Rory McLeod
Jonathan Bagley 1-3 James Brown
Wayne Townsend 1-3 Wayne Cooper Stuart Watson 3-1 Andrew Milliard
SFs:
Rory McLeod 4-1 James Brown Wayne Cooper 4-0 Stuart Watson
The Final
Rory McLeod 3-4 Wayne Cooper
Centuries:
125 Rory McLeod (L32)
111 Bal Sembi (L64)
107 Stuart Watson (QF)
102 Jonathan Bagley (L64)
Super Seniors Event 4
Preliminary match:
Ray Grail 0-2 Richard Wykes
Last 16:
Patsy Fagan 2-1 Dharmendra Patel Tony Knowles 2-0 Keith Thomas Steve Field 2-0 Andrew Darken
Richard Wykes 0-2 Richard Emery
George Apperley 0-2 David Brock Dennis Tristram 2-0 Neil Caroll
Kevin Kelly 0-2 Gary Filtness Colin Mitchell 2-1 Ian Spawton
QFs
Patsy Fagan 1-2 Tony Knowles
Steve Field 1-2 Richard Emery
David Brock 0-2 Dennis Tristram Gary Filtness 2-1 Colin Mitchell
SFs
Tony Knowles 2-0 Richard Emery Gary Filtness 2-0 Dennis Tristram
16 of the best over 40 Snooker Players in the World go head to head for the trophy won last year by Jimmy White. Jimmy is back amongst a stellar field which includes Stephen Hendry, John Parrott and James Wattana to defend his title. The Event runs from the 13th – 15th August. The opening session, with a players meet and greet VIP, will be “The Legends Cup” from 6pm on the 12th August Willie Thorne, Cliff Thorburn, Joe Johnson and Dennis Taylor game go head to head in our event opener, an evening of fun and nostalgia with a trophy for our champion. A special trick shot cabaret from John Virgo will also be performed.
The 2020 WSF Open in Malta has reached the knockout stage, with several WSS players doing well and still competing after the group stage was completed yesterday.
Nickolas Neale will play 14 years old Iulian Boiko from Ukraine
Stuart Watson will play the winner of Jeremy Lee v Jenson Kendrick
Wayne Townsend will play 20 years old Brian Ochoiski from France
Tony Drago and Rory McLeod will face each other. Tony won all three of his group matches. It’s great to have him back playing well. Remember, he missed the inaugural WSF event in Malta in 2018, as he was then critically ill.
Leo Fernandez was very unlucky. He didn’t come in Malta in the best possible shape having suffered a hand injury a couple of weeks ago, and to make things worse, his luggage, including his cue arrived only when the group stages were already well unerway. As a result, he managed to win only one match, which wasn’t enough.
The Pan American Snooker and Billiards Association (PABSA) have announced that the 2020 Pan American Snooker Championships will be hosted in Canada at The Corner Bank in Toronto from March 23 – 29.
After a successful 2019 staging by the United States Snooker Association (USSA) earlier this year at Q Ball Snooker & Pool in Houston, Texas, it is the turn of the Canadian Billiards & Snooker Association (CBSA), who have chosen to play the Championships at one of Canada’s premier cuesports facilities which is located in the Scarborough administrative division of the city of Toronto.
The Corner Bank in Toronto, Canada
Photo courtesy of The Corner Bank
In a change from 2019, PABSA have expanded the 2020 Championships which will now encompass the main 2020 Pan American Snooker Championship event, and the 2020 Pan American Seniors Snooker Championship event for players aged 40 and over. The Seniors event will be played first from March 23 – 25, followed then by the Main event from March 26 – 29.
A view of the snooker tables in The Corner Bank
Photo courtesy of The Corner Bank
The Championships are open to entry from a player who is a citizen of any of the 41 countries which make up the Pan American Olympic movement, with a special dispensation for players who have been a legal permanent resident of one of those nations for a continuous period of the past five years, and have not had any previous representation for a foreign nation in any international snooker competition.
The United States is expected to have several participants competing in both events.
Players interested in entering should visit the PABSA website for further details: www.pabsa.org
Alex Ferguson W/O – Chris Clarkson James Brown 3-1 Ady Holley John Whitty 3-0 Steve Evans Michael Wrigley 3-1 Dharmendra Patel Andrew Greaves 3-0 Ian Spawton
Last 64
Rodney Goggins 3-0 Colin Mitchell Marcus Lord 3-2 Patsy Fagan Tony Corrigan W/0 – Neil Caroll
Philip Blackburn 1-3 Les Dodd
Richard Emery 2-3 Gary Miller
Steve Bird 0-3 Dean Sycamore Sanjay Meghani 3-2 Alex Ferguson
John Snape – Aaron Canavan W/O Lee Richardson 3-0 Ray Grail Mark Ball 3-0 Stevie Carroll
Karl Townsend 1-3 James Brown
Anthony Massey 0-3 Rory McLeod
Sean Lanigan 1-3 Wayne Townsend
Colm Gilcreest – John Welsh W/O Neil Craycraft 3-0 George Apperley
John Whitty 2-3 Leo Fernandez Patrick Wallace 3-0 Adrian Atkins
Johnny Stevens – Darren Barton W/0 Andrew Milliard 3-2 Mark Sutton Bal Sembi W/0 – Lee S. Martin Wayne Cooper 3-0 Simon Keenan
Mark White 2-3 Michael Wrigley Stephen Campbell 3-1 Ali Anwar Gary Thompson 3-1 Stuart Watson Jonathan Bagley 3-1 Andrew Greaves Neal Jones W/O – Nikolas Neale Cary Kikis 3-1 A. Pennington
Dennis Tristram 1-3 Gary Filtness
Tony Knowles 2-3 Steve Whalley Jon Charlton W/O – Pat Bonnar
Gary Coulson 1-3 Danny Crawford Michael Judge 3-0 Abbid Manzoor
Last 32
Rodney Goggins 3-1 Marcus Lord
Tony Corrigan 1-3 Les Dodd
Gary Miller 1-3 Dean Sycamore
Sanjay Meghani 0-3 Aaron Canavan Lee Richardson 3-0 Mark Ball
James Brown 1-3 Rory McLeod Wayne Townsend 3-1 John Welsh
Neil Craycraft 0-3 Leo Fernandez Patrick Wallace 3-0 Darren Barton
Andrew Milliard 1-3 Bal Sembi Wayne Cooper 3-0 Michael Wrigley
Stephen Campbell 0-3 Gary Thompson Jonathan Bagley 3-2 Neal Jones
Cary Kikis 0-3 Gary Filtness
Steve Whalley 2-3 Jon Charlton
Danny Crawford 1-3 Michael Judge
Last 16
Rodney Goggins 3-1 Les Dodd
Dean Sycamore 1-3 Aaron Canavan
Lee Richardson 0-3 Rory McLeod
Wayne Townsend 1-3 Leo Fernandez Patrick Wallace 3-0 Bal Sembi
Wayne Cooper 0-3 Gary Thompson Jonathan Bagley 3-2 Gary Filtness
Jon Charlton 2-3 Michael Judge
Quarter finals
Rodney Goggins 2-3 Aaron Canavan Rory McLeod 3-2 Leo Fernandez
Patrick Wallace 1-3 Gary Thompson
Jonathan Bagley 0-3 Michael Judge
Semi finals
Aaron Canavan 1-4 Rory Mcleod
Gary Thompson 3-4 Michael Judge
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