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Snooker
Day two of the China Open in Taiyuan removed the world number one, restored Ronnie O'Sullivan and sent Shaun Murphy into the record books. This is what happened on the table, and what the Trump defeat costs…
World Snooker Championship coverage from the Crucible, Triple Crown event reports, and the rise of the next generation. Profiles of O'Sullivan, Trump, Higgins and the players defining the modern game, with frame-by-frame context drawn from World Snooker Tour data and BBC coverage.
Snooker
Thursday night in Birmingham is not merely another regular-season fixture. It is a potential elimination round in everything but name, with three players fighting to avoid being cut loose before the Premier…
Snooker
This piece goes beyond the scoreline to examine what Wu Yize's victory truly represents: a generational shift in world snooker, the remarkable swings of a final that refused to settle, and what the result…
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Mark Allen produced one of the great individual fightbacks in recent World Championship memory on Friday, overturning a four-frame overnight deficit against Wu Yize to level their semi-final at 7-7. But the…
Snooker
Ronnie O'Sullivan's shock second-round exit at the Crucible has ignited a wider row over the type of chalk he uses on his cue, with Neil Robertson leading calls for the WST to introduce an outright ban.…
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John Higgins produced one of the great Crucible comebacks on Monday, clawing back from five frames down against Ronnie O'Sullivan to win 13-12 in a final-frame decider. This piece examines how the four-time…
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Ronnie O'Sullivan looked to be coasting into the quarter-finals at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre until John Higgins produced a stunning fightback to close the gap to just two frames on Sunday evening. With the…
Snooker
Ronnie O'Sullivan arrived at the Crucible carrying two cues after a troublesome tip wrecked his UK Championship campaign, and the unconventional precaution paid off handsomely. A 10-2 demolition of Chinese…