News
Aug 2, 2010
Alex Higgins funeral: Crowds remember the 'Hurricane' - source: The Guardian
July 28, 2010
Thousands expected to pay respects at Belfast funeral of Alex Higgins
Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Belfast when the funeral of the former world snooker champion Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins is held on Monday. - source: The Guardian
July 25, 2010
Sky's the Limit for Chinese Snooker Champion.
Unranked Tian Peng Fei steamrolled world #12 Ryan Day to capture the BTV Beijing Cup Challenge event, July 25th.
A Tribute to Alex Higgins - 1949-2010
Feb 2010: Jim White's interview with Alex Higgins. - source: The Telegraph
July 25, 2010
Belfast-born Higgins, who claimed his world crowns in 1972 and 1982, endured a long battle with throat cancer having been diagnosed with the illness over ten years ago. - source: Sky Sports
Snooker world continues to pay tribute to Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins
Tributes for Alex Higgins, who was found dead yesterday after a long battle with cancer, have continued to pour in from around the snooker world. - source: The Guardian
Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins: A life in pictures - source: The Guardian
'Hurricane' passing a huge loss
Sobriquets in sport can so often be cliches but in the case of Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins it could not have been more appropriate. - source: Irish Independent
Among the words used to describe Alex Higgins by those who crossed swords with him over the years, it is certain that 'boring' would not have been one of them. - source: BBC Sport
July 24, 2010
Snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins dies at 61
Alex Higgins, the former world snooker champion from Northern Ireland, has died after a long battle with throat cancer. - source: Belfast Telegraph
Alex 'Hurricane’ Higgins dies aged 61
Dennis Taylor has led the tributes for Alex 'Hurricane’ Higgins, the fast-living, fast-playing snooker idol who has died at the age of 61. - source: The Telegraph
June 2, 2010
Barry Hearn’s revolution given green light
Professional snooker, plagued by internecine strife and a succession of ineffective administrations from its boom in the early Eighties through to its recent struggles, entered a brave new era yesterday. It is now a benign dictatorship with Barry Hearn at the helm. - source: TimesOnLine
Barry Hearn holds off late challenge to take control of snooker
Barry Hearn's terms for a controlling stake in professional snooker were approved by 35‑29 votes at a World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association EGM in Sheffield, thereby repelling a late challenge from the venture capitalist John Davison. - source: The Guardian
Barry Hearn has gained control of World Snooker after coming out on top in a vote of the sport's top 64 players. - source: Sky Sports
Barry Hearn insists infighting will stop now he is in charge of World Snooker
Barry Hearn promised on Wednesday that snooker’s in-fighting would stop after players voted to put him in control of the sport. - source: The Telegraph
May 31, 2010
2011 & 2012 ACS Nationals to Move To NEW Tropicana Las Vegas ! Legendary Tropicana Las Vegas Transforming Itself to Host the 2011 and 2012 ACS Nationals in Las Vegas!
May 17, 2010
Snooker Shoot Out on Sky: New rapid-fire tournament comes to Sky Sports in 2011
Barry Hearn's rebuilding of snooker will continue live on Sky Sports next year with the introduction of a thrilling new tournament - the World Snooker Shoot Out. - source: Sky Sports
May 12, 2010
USSA Announces 2010 US National Snooker Championship.
The United States National Snooker Championship, presented and sanctioned by the United States Snooker Association (USSA), is the USSA's premier annual snooker tournament, which brings together all the top snooker players from around the United States to compete for the coveted title of National Champion. The 2010 Nationals will be conducted at the Embassy Billiards Club in San Gabriel, California, July 2-4.
May 12, 2010
Boon In A Swoon At Shoreline USSA Snooker Tour Success.
Former Singapore National Snooker Champion, Keith E. Boon, has won the sixth and final event of the 2010 United States Snooker Association (USSA) National Snooker Tour, with victory over Ajeya Prabhakar in the final at Shoreline Billiards in Mountain View, California.
World Snooker Championship
May 3, 2010
Australian Neil Robertson won the World Snooker Championship final by an 18 - 13 margin over Graeme Dott.
May 6, 2010
Future bright for new snooker superstar
NEIL Robertson's history making victory in the world championships has not only propelled him to mega-star status in England, but is set to see the sport in Australia "go through the roof", according to two of the country's leading sports managers. - source: The Australian
May 6, 2010
Pot bleak: how the pokies sank snooker as it just found its pulse
Snooker was sexy 30 to 40 years ago - Pot Black was a major television hit, with men and women.
Now, in the 36 hours since his triumph, new snooker world champion Neil Robertson has doubled traffic to Australian snooker websites and left the sport's administrators fielding a surge of calls. - source: The Sydney Morning Herald
May 5, 2010
Neil Robertson on top of world after starting with borrowed cash and clothes
NEIL Robertson overcame the bribery controversy surrounding the sport, nerves over the impending birth of his first child and more than 12 hours of play to become Australian sport's newest world champion. - source: The Australian
May 4, 2010
Neil Robertson wins world snooker title
MELBOURNE'S Neil Robertson became only the second Australian to win the world snooker championship title when he won the final in England today. - source: HeraldSun
May 4, 2010
Neil Robertson on top of snooker world and right behind Barry Hearn
Neil Robertson flew to Oslo today as world champion to be with his Norwegian girlfriend, Mille, who was due to give birth at any time to their first child. "Obviously there's a lot of added responsibility now, not just here but for the people back home as well," the 28-year-old Australian said. "I'll try very hard to be a good ambassador." - source: The Guardian
May 4, 2010
World Snooker 2010: world champion Neil Robertson in line for No 1 ranking
The new world snooker champion, Australia's Neil Robertson, stands a good chance of becoming the sport's de facto No 1 next season after defeating Scotland's Graeme Dott in a scratchy and drawn-out final. - source: The Telegraph
May 4, 2010
Aussie Neil Robertson beats Dott to win world title
Neil Robertson beat Scot Graeme Dott 18-13 to become the first Australian to win the world snooker title. - source: BBC Sport
May 4, 2010
Neil Robertson becomes first Australian to take world snooker title
They were eating brunch in Melbourne when one of their own, Neil Robertson, was the last man standing in a gruelling examination of stamina and nerve to become the first Australian to claim snooker’s most coveted title. - source: TimesOnLine
May 4, 2010
Neil Robertson's bid for world championship re-opens debate about Horace Lindrum
AS Neil Robertson continued his quest overnight to win the World Snooker Championship, debate raged whether a victory at the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield would make him the first or second Australian to claim the sport's biggest prize. - source: The Australian
Related:
World Professional Championship
World Matchplay
source: Chris Turner's Snooker Archive
Horace Lindrum
World Matchplay
source: Wikipedia
May 2, 2010
Neil Robertson to play Graeme Dott in world snooker championship final in Sheffield
NEIL Robertson has absent family on his mind as he disputes the world snooker championship final bidding to become the first Australian to win the title since 1952. - The Daily Telegraph
April 29, 2010
Neil Robertson set fair to advance Australia after 35-year wait
Neil Robertson's attempt to become the first Australian to reach the world championship final since Eddie Charlton 35 years ago gathered momentum as he built a 6-2 lead over Ali Carter after the first session of their semi-final. - source: The Guardian
April 29, 2010
Mark Selby repeats Wembley heroics to pip Ronnie O'Sullivan
Mark Selby, who beat Ronnie O'Sullivan from three down with four to play to win the Masters at Wembley in January, once more proved his nemesis as he again came from behind to beat him 13-11 to reach the semi-finals of the World Championship. - source: The Guardian
April 28, 2010
Carter holds nerve to down Murphy
Ali Carter recaptured the spirit that carried him to the 2008 World Championship final as he fought from 8-4 behind to down Shaun Murphy 13-12 in the quarter-finals. - source: Yahoo Sport / Eurosport
April 28, 2010
World Snooker 2010: Ronnie O'Sullivan blasts himself after loss to Mark Selby
Ronnie O’Sullivan departed the world championships in typically ungracious style last night. Having lost to the seventh-ranked Mark Selby, who reeled off the last four frames to take the quarter-final 13-11, he claimed that “my bad game has got me where I’ve got in the last 17 years, playing pretty **** really.” - source: The Telegraph
April 28, 2010
Mark Selby reasserted his dominance over Ronnie O'Sullivan by sending the favourite out of the Betfred.com World Championship at the quarter-final stage. - source: Sky Sports
April 28, 2010
Graeme Dott produced a stirring late fightback to clinch a dramatic 13-12 victory over Mark Allen that sees him progress to the semi-finals of the Betfred.com World Championship. - source: Sky Sports
April 28, 2010
Graeme Dott takes over the feel-good factor as Steve Davis bows out
On the day that Steve Davis finally bowed out of an event he has illuminated so brightly, Graeme Dott stepped forward with a Crucible feel-good story of his own to reach the semi-finals of the Betfred.com World Championship. - source: TimesOnLine
April 27, 2010
Neil Robertson takes his cue to leave Steve Davis squirming
Romance was downgraded to reality yesterday as a self-confident Australian ruthlessly set about dismantling the dreams of a national treasure. - source: TimesOnLine
April 25, 2010
World Snooker 2010: Steve Davis receives the respect he deserves after upsetting the odds
Respect was always his by right – six world titles saw to that – but as long as there was a Hurricane or a Whirlwind, genuine public affection always eluded him. - source: The Telegraph
April 20, 2010
Top 147 Tour Event Triumph for Fung.
It was roles reversed at Event 5 of the 2010 United States Snooker Association (USSA) Tour, as Raymond Fung turned the tables around from the previous Tour Event result with victory in the final over Omar Balsara at the Top 147 Snooker Club in Brooklyn, New York. It was Fung's second victory in three finals on this season's Tour, making him the most consistent player on the Tour, but he had a great fight in this race-to-four-frames final to eventually wrestle victory out of the hands of Balsara who had defeated him in the final of the previous Tour Event.
April 17, 2010
Chairman wants players to become Barry Hearn’s earners
In Crazy People, the 1990 film, Dudley Moore plays a frustrated advertising executive who achieves inadvertent success by telling it like it is. Barry Hearn, the man attempting to lead snooker from gloom to boom, employs the same tactic, save that his method is entirely intentional. - source: TimesOnLine
April 14, 2010
Mark Williams backs Barry Hearn to rule World Snooker
Mark Williams has backed World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn to take a controlling stake in the organisation. - source: BBC Sport
March 31, 2010
El Sayed Claims First Tour Century But Balsara Battles To Victory.
The reigning United States National Snooker Champion, Ahmed El Sayed, has recorded the first ever century break to be compiled in a United States Snooker Association (USSA) Tour event, but it was Omar Balsara who won a high quality Event 4 at the prestigious New York Athletic Club (NYAC).
March 30, 2010
Barry Hearn outlines take-it-or-leave-it plan to save snooker
Barry Hearn has revealed radical plans to revitalise snooker, including increasing prize money on the circuit to at least £4.5m from £3.5m for each of the next three years. - source: The Guardian
March 30, 2010
Barlow Banks Tour Event At California Billiard Club.
The twice United States National Snooker Championship semifinalist, Andrew Barlow, has won Event 3 of the 2010 United States Snooker Association (USSA) Tour, with victory at the California Billiard Club in Mountain View, California.
March 5, 2010
Fung edges National Champion Ali in stop 2 of the 2010 USSA National Snooker Tour.
Defending Prince Club tour stop champion Raymond Fung has defeated the reigning United States National Snooker Champion, Ahmed Ali, to secure victory at Event 2 of the 2010 United States Snooker Association National Tour at the Prince Snooker Club in Brooklyn, New York.
February 23, 2010
Siu shines in first tour event on the 2010 USSA National Snooker Tour.
The United States Snooker Association (USSA) initiated its 2nd Annual USSA National Snooker Tour with the first stop on the Tour at Embassy Billiards Club in San Gabriel, CA, February 16-19.
IBSF World Snooker Championships - Hyderabad, India , November 15 - 25, 2009
November 15, 2009
The IBSF Snooker Championships got underway today. All links and information courtesy of the International Billiards and Snooker Federation and can be accessed from their homepage.
Canada is represented here in the Men's division by Ontario's Eriks Malderis. Eriks is in Group L and did not have a match today. His player profile is here.
In the Masters division, Canada is represented by Thomas Williams. Thomas is in Group F and lost his match 3-1 today. His player profile is here.
The United States is represented here in the Men's division by Ahmed Aly (winner of the 2009 US National Championship) Group C and Ajeya Prabhakar (runner-up of the 2009 US National Championship) Group Q. Their profiles are linked to their names. Ahmed lost 4-1 today and Ajeya didn't have a match today.
In the Masters division, the United States is represented by Jeff Szafransky. Jeff is in Group G and lost his match 3-1 today. His player profile is here.
All Men's player profiles can be found here.
All Ladies player profiles can be found here.
All Masters player profiles can be found here.
There are three divisions Men's, Ladies and Masters with approximately 50 countries represented.
The IBSF website is covering all matches through the round robin and elimination rounds.
Additional IBSF direct links
Men's, Ladies, Masters, Schedule
The schedule allows you to filter by Date, Country or Player. The other links will give you round robin and elimination results in their respective divisions.
Results from 2007 and 2008 can be found if you scroll down on the IBSF main page.
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