Event

A few reminders …

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Today Jason Francis posted this on twitter

CUT OFF FOR CLACTON MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 16TH SEPT

CUT OFF FOR LIVERPOOL TUESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER AT MIDNIGHT

WORLD CHAMPS Q1 NEWBURY HAS 10 PLACES LEFT, IT WILL CLOSE WHEN THEY ARE TAKEN.

Enter now by clicking here

The ranking list has been updated too

This is the top 16

SeniorsRankingsTop16-10Sept2018

follow this link for the full list

He also published the current centuries list (after 3 events)

  1. Rodney Goggins 135
  2. Aaron Canavan 131
  3. Patrick Wallace 124
  4. Rodney Goggins 121
  5. Mark White 120
  6. Rhydian Richards 120
  7. Ludovic Arnaert 109
  8. Jonathan Bagley 106
  9. Lieven Vanthournout 104
  10. Steven Waldron 104
  11. Michael Judge 104

Remember there is a £5000 prize for the season highest break offered by Victor Wood Kia 

Victor Wood Kia

Michael Judge wins European Masters 2018/19 Qualifying event 3

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Where? Barratts, 42 Kingsthorpe Rd, Northampton NN2 6EZ

When? 7-9 September 2018

Entries are closed.

The event has 74 runners which is the largest turnout so far this season and a fantastic chance to get ranking points.  One person will join Sean Lanigan and Patrick Wallace at the European Open.

The line-up features players from England, Ireland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Malta, Jersey, Iceland and Cyprus.

Tony Drago had entered the event but withdrew because of an ankle injury.

There will be four Easb referees on duty, two will be used on the stream tables and two will roving referees.

Here is the draw:

drawnorthamptoneuroqual-1.jpgDrawNorthamptonEuroQual-2

And here is the format:

FormatNorthamptonEuroQual

Results:

Prelim round

Michael Wringley w/o Andy Papaiacovou
Sean Halligan w/o Bradley Fish

Adam Ingram 3-0 Steve Bird
Steve Evans 3-2 Paul Burrell
Robert Marshall 3-1 John Hunter
Graham Beardmore 3-1 Marcus Lord
Sanjay Meghani 3-0 Robert Barton
Neil Craycraft 3-1 Steve Evans
Sean Ward 3-0 Anthony Bonnard
Rodney Goggins 3-2 Andy Milliard
Mark White 3-1 Nick Neale
Sean Ward 3-0 Anthony Bonnard
David Brown 3-2 David Morritz

Last 64

Aaron Canavan w/o Chris Hart
Sean Ward w/o Tony Drago

Ian Wagstaff 3-0 George Apperley
Jon Charlton 3-0 Andrew Darken
Rhydian Richards 3-1 Andrew Diacopoulous
Richard Emery 3-2 David McDonnell
Sanjay Meghani 3-0 Darren Barton
Barry Pinches 3-0 Adam Ingram
Sean Lanigan 3-0 Michael Wrigley
Lee Richardson 3-0 Andrew Turner
Michal Judge 3-0 Simon Seabridge
Matt Ford 3-0 Bilal Ahmed
Gary Filtness 3-0 Ray Grall
Mark Ball 3-2 Sanjay Meghani
Dean Venables 3-1 Tony Corrigan
Nick Spelman 3-2 Graham Breadmore
Simon Dent 3-2 Neil Herd
Robert Marshall 3-1 Gary Miller
Jonathan Bagley 3-0 Brett Gant
Neil Caroll 3-1 Dean Sycamore
Sean Halligan 3-2 Stephen Campbell
Stuart Watson 3-1 Gary Skipworth
Wayne Cooper 3-1 Lee Martin
Gary Britton 3-1 David Brown
Steven Waldron 3-0 Daren Mirza
Patrick Wallace 3-1 Daniel Mooney
Lee S. Martin 3-0 Dharmendra Patel
Rodney Goggins 3-0 David Lilley
Mark White 3-0 Palmi Elmarsson
Lewis Walsh 3-0 Mark Davies
Garoid O’Connor 3-0 James Simpson
Aidan Owens 3-0 Kalr Townsend

Last 32

Lee Richardson 3-1 Neil Craycraft
Rhydian Richards 3-1 Jon Charlton
Richard Emery 3-2 Sean Lanigan
Barry Pinches 3-0 Ian Wagstaff
Gary Filtness 3-0 Mark Ball
Nick Spelman 3-2 Dean Venables
Michael Judge 3-2 Matt Ford
Robert Marshall 3-1 Simon Dent
Jonathan Bagley 3-0 Neil Caroll
Wayne Cooper 3-2 Stuart Watson
Patrick Wallace 3-0 Lee S. Martin
Aaron Canavan 3-0 Lewis Walsh
Geroid O’Connor 3-0 Aidan Owens
Mark White 3-2 Rodney Goggins
Gary Britton 3-0 Steven Waldron
Sean Ward 3-2 Sean Halligan

Last 16

Jonathan Bagley 3-1 Sean Ward
Barry Pinches 3-0 Wayne Cooper
Gary Britton 3-1 Richard Emery
Lee Richardson 3-0 Rhydian Richards
Patrick Wallace 3-0 Mark White
Aaron Canavan 3-1 Robert Marshall
Michael Judge 3-0 Nick Spelman
Gary Filtness 3-2 Garoid O’Connor

Quarters

Jonathan Bagley 3-1 Barry Pinches
Gary Britton 3-0 Lee Richardson
Aaron Canavan 3-2 Patrick Wallace
Michael Judge 3-0 Gary Filtness

Semis

Gary Britton 3-1 Jonathan Bagley
Michael Judge 3-1 Aaron Canavan

Final

Judge v Britton Final Euro Masters Qual 3

Michael Judge 3-1 Gary Britton

Euro Masters Qual 3 Judge Winner

Aaron Canavan scored the highest break: a  131.

Patrick Wallace is your winner in Bruges

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Bruges

Event: European Masters Qualifiers 2

When? 17-19 August 2018

Where? Snooker Palace, Noordzandstraat 4, 8000 Brugge

Congratulations to Patrick Wallace, winner of this event!

Patrick Wallace, winner in Bruges

Here is how it unfolded:

Round 1

Alain Vandersteen (BE) 3-2 Jeremy Dorchue (FR)
Steve Lambrechts (BE) 3-0 John Van Gorp (NL)
Kurt Pollet (BE) 3-0 Bruno Cottenies (BE)
Keith Thomas (Wales)  3-2 Nico Smeets (BE)
Jonathan Charlton (England) 3-2 Wang Chooi Tan (BE)
Christophe Rives-Lange (FR) w/o Paul Burrell (England)
Miro Popovic (DE) 3-1 Jan Mortelé (BE)
Andy Turner (England) 3-2 Gino Verheyden (BE)

Stefan Buyse (BE) 3-1 Thierry Thenaisie (FR)
Remko Boselie (NL) w/o Mark Davies
Ludovic Arnaert (BE) 3-2 Stéphane Ochoiski (FR)
Win De Roeck (BE) 3-1 Mario Veltman (NL)
Nick Tielemans (BE) 3-2 Hossein Mosharaff (BE)
Lee Martin (England) 3-1 Joris Maas (BE)
Mohammed Al Joaker (UAE) 3-1 Steven Thomas (Wales)
Lieven Vanthornout (BE) 3-2 René Hemelsoet (BE)

Round 2

Jonathan Bagley (England) 3-0 Alain Vandersteen
John Hunter (England) 3-2 Steve Lambrechts
Richard Emery (England) 3-0 Kurt Pollet
Stuart Watson (England) 3-0 Keith Thomas
Michael Judge (IRL) 3-2 Jonathan Charlton
Rodney Goggins (IRL) 3-0 Christophe Rives-Lange
Raymond Grall (England) 3-2 Miro Popovic
Lee Richardson (England) 3-1 Andy Turner

Patrick Wallace (NI) 3-0 Stefan Buyse
Remko Boselie 3-1 Bradley Fish (England)
Ludovic Arnaert 3-1 Dean Sycamore (England)
Les Dott (England) 3-1 Wim De Roeck
Simon Dent (England) 3-0 Nick Tielemans
Lee Martin 3-2 Neil Herd (England)
Mohammed Al Joaker 3-1 Hans Blankaert (BE)
Sean Lanigan (England) 3-0 Lieven VanThournout

Last 16

Jonathan Bagley 3-1 John Hunter
Stuart Watson 3-0 Richard Emery
Rodney Goggins 3-2 Michael Judge
Lee Richardson 3-0 Raymond Grall

Patrick Wallace 3-0 Remko Boselie
Ludovic Arnaert 3-0 Les Dodd
Lee Martin 3-2 Simon Dent
Mohammed Al Joaker 3-2 Sean Lanigan

QF

Stuart Watson 3-2 Jonathan Bagley
Rodney Goggins 3-0 Lee Richardson

Patrick Wallace 3-0 Ludovic Arnaert
Lee Martin 3-0 Mohammed Al Joaker

SF

Stuart Watson 3-0 Rodney Goggins

Patrick Wallace 3-1 Lee Martin

Final 

Patrick Wallace 3-0 Stuart Watson

Centuries

Rodney Goggins 135 – this is currently the season High break.
Patrick Wallace 124
Ludovic Arnaert 109
Jonathan Bagley 106
Lieven Vanthournout 104

Meet the players ….

Mario Veltman
Jonathan Bagley
Joris Maas
Wim De Roeck
Simon Dent
Patrick Wallace
Thierry Thenaisie
Remko Boselie
Dean Sycamore
Alain Vandersteen
Sean Lanigan
Jérémy Dorchue
Lee Richardson
Christophe Rives-Lange
John Van Gorp
Rodney Goggins
Nick Tielamans
Gino Verheyden
Jonathan Charlton
Hans Blankaert
Stefan Buyse
Hossein Mosharraf
Bruno Cottenies
Lee Martin
Stéphane Ochoiski
Stuart Watson
Steven Thomas
Keith Thomas
Andy Turner
Bradley Fish
Steve Lambrechts
Neil Herd
Mohammed Al Joaker
Nico Smeets
Wang Chooi Tan
Raymond Grall
René Hemelsoet
Jan Mortelé
John Hunter
Richard Emery
Kurt Pollet
Michael Judge
Les Dodd
Ludovic Arneart

And some pictures taken at the Snooker Palace club… Belgium has some snooker history!

The Tornado returns

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This good news was posted by Jason Francis this morning:

After a period of ill-health we are delighted to announce that “The Tornado” Tony Drago will be one of the legends playing for the £20,000 WINNER TAKES ALL prize in Belfast in March at the World Seniors 6 Reds World Championship. Tony joins Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White, Ken Doherty, Joe Johnson and Aaron Canavan as the 6 seeds, they will be joined by a NIBSA nominated player and the winner of the qualifier in Newbury in February.
http://waterfront.co.uk/w…/all-events/world-seniors-snooker/

Very happy to see Tony back. He’s always a great asset to any event!

More money to be earned in Hong Kong Qualifiers

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This Press Release was issue by Jason Francis

PRESS RELEASE
MORE PRIZE MONEY IN HONG KONG!
Our partners at i20 in Hong Kong have added 7500 HKD to the prize fund next month. The runner up will now get 5000HKD and the losing semi finalists will play a 3rd and 4th place play off for 2500HKD.
A fantastic gesture from our hosts in a wonderful city. You still have time to enter and come on a trip of a life time….
Enter now by clicking here: :https://www.snookerlegends.co.uk/worldseniors_registration.html
Players in China or Hong Kong can enter by contacting Sam Hon or Angel angel@xpertdental.com.hk

This is certainly great news!

Willie Thorne set to return to Goffs

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Willie Thorne, who recently had an eye surgery in the hope to be able to play snooker at a high level again is set to return to Goffs for the 2019 Irish Masters.

IrishMasters2019Poster

Willie said “What a thrill to be going back to Goffs. I got to the final in 85 and 86 losing to Jimmy and Davis. great memories & one of the best venues. I remember Ken Doherty selling programmes as a young boy as well!!”

Willie could possibly face Jimmy in the final again … or Ken, who, surely won’t be selling programs this time!

Tickets for the tournament are on sales now

 

World Seniors UK Championship 2018 news and schedule

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The schedule for the Seniors UK Championship 2018 in Hull has been published and here it is:

UKChampsSchedule

The event is played end October 2018 and, as you can see above, on Wednesday 24 October six of the Legends involved in the tournament will be in action. Not to be missed. On the next morning, the Seniors reigning Champion, Aaron Canavan and Ken Doherty will enter the fray.

Someone else who will be in Hull, is the inaugural World Snooker Federation Masters Champion in Malta, Igor Figuereido from Brazil, pictured here with Jason Ferguson.

Igor Figuereido WSF Masters Champion 2018

Igor is a larger than life cheerful character, with a broad infectious smile. But make no mistake, at the table, he’s there to win and he’s seriously good! He will definitely be a contender in Hull!

The King returns to the Crucible

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Following the announcements made yesterday regarding Stephen Hendry’s commitment to play in the Seniors tour, here is what the Yorkshire Evening Post wrote about it:

Crucible legend Hendry will make playing return in Sheffield as he joins Seniors

Henfry, King of the Crucible

Tour Stephen Hendry who dominated snooker in the Nineties.

RICHARD HERCOCK  Published: 22:27 Thursday 12 July 2018

Stephen Hendry is set for an emotional playing return at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre. The 49-year-old retired from snooker in 2012 after a glittering career, which included a record seven World Championship titles and 27 consecutive appearances in Sheffield. But the Scot has signed up to play on this season’s World Seniors Tour.

Hendry will compete at the UK Championship, at Hull’s Bonus Arena, on October 24-25 before travelling to Belfast for the World Seniors Six Reds event in March. But it is his return to the Crucible – for the Sheffield Masters next April – that will evoke memories of his golden years at the home of snooker.

Hendry dominated the snooker circuit in the Nineties, and admitted: “There’s no venue where I love playing snooker more than the Crucible. “We have done exhibitions there over the years, and to still walk down those stairs into that arena to play snooker is still something special. That’s something that will never leave me.”

Hendry, who will also compete at the World Seniors Championships and European Seniors Open, is excited at the new Seniors Tour. “I want to improve on my general standards of play, from the events that I played last year,” he said. “It’s more official this year, with the backing of World Snooker and a calendar of events to look forward to. “I will treat it a bit more seriously, put a bit more practice in. As for my own expectations, I just want to play some good snooker.”

The Tour has £200k in prize money this season, six ranking events and 15 qualifying events where anyone over 40 can win a spot to take on the legends in the final stages. qualifying events will be held in Hong Kong, Toronto, Houston, Brugge and China.

First up for Hendry is a trip to Hull, which will also include a launch dinner and golf day, alongside fellow stars Ken Doherty, Dennis Taylor, John Parrott and Yorkshire’s Joe Johnson. Up for grabs is a £10,000 winner’s prize plus a place in the World Professional Championship Qualifiers. “The new Bonus Arena in Hull looks amazing,” said Hendry. “This year the Seniors Tour feels more serious and I’m looking forward to competing again against the other legends.”

And you can also listen to the interview I did with Stephen yesterday. Thanks to him for taking the time to answer my questions, and thanks to Jason Francis who relayed them to him and recorder the interview.

Darren Morgan wins in Romania and earns invitation in the World Seniors European Open

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Darren Morgan from Wales won the EBSA Masters Championship 2018 in Romania and it earned him a spot in the coming World Seniors European Masters come October. He beat John Farrell by 4-2 in the Final. Darren also won the Men’s shootout competition earlier this week (picture above).

Congratulations Darren!

You can read more about Darren in his wikipedia profile

As you can see Darren is still competing at a very high level, reaching the SF at the Riga Masters 2016 and the Final of the Seniors World Championship 2016.

And some images shared on social media showing the venue and its surroundings. Nice!