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• Ding repeats success to reach UK final

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Twenty-two-year-old surges to the line in four-frame streak • Chinese star will meet John Higgins or Ronnie OSullivan Ding Junhui, who lost six matches against Stephen Maguire before beating him on his way to the final of Octobers Grand Prix in Glasgow, beat him again, 9-5, to reachSundays final of the Pukka ...
  8 hours ago

• UK champion to win his weight in pies

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Ding: We all made sure we wore extra clothes for the weigh-in • Company to supply the winner with between 276 and 356 pies This years UK Snooker Championship winner will be given his body weight in pies, supplied by the tournament sponsor, Pukka Pies. The English company are sponsoring the event for the first ...
  17 hours ago

• Pukka Pies UK Snooker Championship – Semi Finals

  
  Online Betting News — Authority: 141
  UK Championships Semi Final Friday: Ding Junhui v Stephen Maguire Saturday: Ronnie O’Sullivan v John Higgins The Pukka Pies UK Championship enters into the semi final stage on Friday and Saturday . Friday sees Ding Junhui v Stephen Maguire taking to the table, and over two sessions will play to a conclusion. The ...
  1 day ago

• Ronnie OSullivan books semi-final with John Higgins

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • OSullivan flattered by 9-3 scoreline against Mark Selby • Higgins takes three evening frames to beat Liang Wenbo 9-2 Ronnie OSullivan and John Higgins, both world champions three times, will meet in Saturdays semi-final of the Pukka Pies UK Championship after majestic performances distinguished by prolific ...
  1 day ago

• Ronnie OSullivan and Co provide inspiration for Damien Hirst

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Damien Hirst is a huge fan of the green baize and takes endless inspiration from watching Ronnie OSullivan and Co in action.
  1 day ago

• The Snooker Sofa

  
  BED Online Magazine - The Bed Blog - We are crazy about beds. — Authority: 531
  Here is something for the snooker addicts. Though some may have problems fitting a snooker table into your home, here is one that transforms from a sofa into a snooker table. This actually a vintage 1970 Snooker Sofa made by Accrington and snooker table manufacturer Riley. This couch was really around on a limited ...
  2 days ago

• Pukka Pies UK Championship Snooker – Quarter Finals

  
  Online Betting News — Authority: 141
  The bottom half of the draw for the Pukka Pies UK Championship of Snooker enters the quarter final stage on Thursday, with two of the strongest players looking to come together in the semi finals . World number one Ronnie O’Sullivan plays Mark Selby, while Liang Wenbo squares off against John Higgins . With ...
  2 days ago

• Snooker told to limit toilet breaks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Shaun Murphy complains of unnecessary interruptions • Players drink a lot but dont sweat much of it out Barry Hearn, newly installed at the helm of world snooker, has been told that the sport needs to clean up its act – by clamping down on players loo breaks. "I cant believe anyone needs to go to the toilet ...
  2 days ago

• Ronnie O’Sullivan and John Higgins through to UK Championship quarter-finals

  
  injournalism — Authority: 131
  World number one Ronnie O’Sullivan and world champion John Higgins both advanced to the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in Telford. UK Championships Higgins survived a spirited fightback from Australian Neil Robertson to win 9-8, while the Rocket beat former world champion Peter Ebdon 9-3. Elsewhere, ...
  2 days ago

• OSullivan cruises to victory over Ebdon

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Two centuries secure OSullivans quarter-final spot • Ding Junhui eliminates Shaun Murphy with a smile Ronnie OSullivan made one century, 114, in taking a 4-0 lead over Peter Ebdon and another, 118, to clinch a 6-2 interval lead but was at times dragged into the sort of attritional battle in which the 2002 ...
  3 days ago

• Grieving Stephen Maguire continues progress at UK Championship

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Funeral of Maguires grandfather took place yesterday • Chinas No2 Liang Wenbo joins Maguire in last eight Stephen Maguire has shown great composure this week in Telford in putting his raw emotions to one side and focusing on the job in hand. Maguire, ranked No2 in the world, made it through to the ...
  3 days ago

• How does the term ‘chinese snooker’ get its name?

  
  Sports — Authority: 135
  How does the term ‘chinese snooker’ get its name? My ‘logical!’ guess was it is because the cue has to go over the top of the ball ’snookering’ the player. And also, Chinese people are generally quite short!! I thought this was a logical reason but reading this through makes me not quite so sure! Help ...
  4 days ago

• Pukka Pies UK Championship Snooker – Round Two

  
  Online Betting News — Authority: 141
  Rocket Ronnie O’Sullivan looked in relatively sharp form after beating one time UK Championship winner Matthew Stevens 9-3 in their first round match at the Pukka Pies UK Championship. The victory sets up a meeting with the popular figure of Peter Ebdon in the second round. Ebdon simply cruised his way to a 9-4 ...
  4 days ago

• OSullivan edges ahead of Stevens

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • OSullivan takes 5-3 lead into the break • Allister Carter holds Rory McLeod 4–4 Ronnie OSullivan dropped the opening two frames of his first-round match in the UK Championship against Matthew Stevens but recovered to end the afternoon session with a 5-3 lead. The 2003 champion notched up a century to make it ...
  4 days ago

• Hendry and Davis offer relief from strife

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Time-honoured combat between former champions • Shaun Murphy begins title defence with victory The UK Championship, whose ranking points tariff is second only to that for the World Championship, provides welcome relief from a period of intense political activity and division within the game which has seen the ...
  5 days ago

• Pukka Pies UK Championship Snooker

  
  Online Betting News — Authority: 141
  Pukka Pies UK Championship Telford December 5 – 13 Shaun Murphy, Mark Williams, Stephen Maguire and Mark King have all safely made their way through the second round of the UK Snooker Championships in Telford. The tournament, otherwise less-glamorously known at the Pukka Pies UK Championship , brings together ...
  5 days ago

• Re-spotting the Pink

  
  Veritas Nihilum Vincet — Authority: 125
  Off a snooker question posed by a visitor to VNV about re-spotting colours when all spots are occupied and the home spot obstructed, I happened across this clip featuring a back and forth between Ronnie and Michaela over where the pink ought to go. It pretty much defines the rule, as I explained to [...]
  6 days ago

• Gino crowned King of the Jungle!

  
  The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News — Authority: 439
  TV chef Gino D’Acampo has been crowned the winner of ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. The hunky Italian beat ‘How Clean Is Your House’ presenter Kim Woodburn, while snooker star Jimmy White came third. Gino, in his final bushtucker trial was forced to eat rotten eggs, part of a ...
  1 week ago

• Dinesh has a field day

  
  The Hindu - Property Plus - Chennai — Authority: 198
  Erode: Former State sub-junior champion Dinesh defeated fancied players Easwaramoorthy and Umakanth with relative ease in the Group ‘A’ round robin league clash of the seventh District-ranking snooker tournament at the S.S. Sports ...
  1 week ago

• Jimmy White wastes away in jungle

  
  The Other Side of Paris — Authority: 116
  Jimmy White , the snooker legend, is still battling it out in “I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!” but there is a lot less of him after 18 days in the Australian jungle. Food has been scarce and Jimmy has seen his weight plummet from 15stone 10lb (220 pounds or 99.79 kilograms) to 14st 2lb – a drop of ...
  1 week ago

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