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A brand new issue of SPM Billiards Magazine is here, and we're looking ahead to 2025 and the future of billiards! Tino Talamantes shares a junior billiards app that will help the next generation of athletes. Final year-end pro-rankings, a 2025 Calendar of Events, and puzzles to keep your opponents busy while you run the table. This article first appeared on SPM Billiards Magazine - Click here to v...

The world’s top 16 players will be at Alexandra Palace in North London from January 12th to 19th for the Johnstone’s Paint Masters, snooker’s greatest invitation event. The opening day and final are sold out but tickets for certain sessions are still available from just £32 – for details click here. For the match schedule click here. Or you can watch live from home or on the move. If there is no television or online broadcast in your territory, then you can watch the event live on the...

Zhao Xintong is now guaranteed to finish top of the WPBSA Q Tour Europe ranking list and has secured a two-year World Snooker Tour (WST) tour card starting from the 2025/26 season. Following early exits for Dylan Emery (3-4 to Fergal Quinn) and Ryan Thomerson (3-4 to James Cahill) in the sixth Q Tour Europe event in Mons, Belgium, Zhao now cannot be caught in top spot following an incredible campa...

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Iulian Boiko has compiled only the third maximum break in WPBSA Q Tour history during event six of the Q Tour Europe series at the Delta Moon Snooker Club in Mons, Belgium. The 19-year-old Ukrainian scored the 147 in the third frame of his last 64 stage match against home nation player Dan Leysson en route to a 4-2 victory. The impressive teenager had also made a break of 134 in frame two of the s...

World Women’s Snooker (WWS), the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA) and Cantonese Snooker (Changping) are delighted to jointly announce that the World Women’s Snooker Championship will return to Dongguan Changping, China from 20 May 2025. The announcement follows the landmark first staging of the event in Changping last year which saw home star Bai Yulu become world champion foll...

WST PLAY, the official streaming platform of the professional circuit, is now available for fans around the world. The service provides snooker fans the chance to watch the entire season either live or on-demand, as well as a host of additional content and benefits. The platform replaces the service previously available on Matchroom Live. Fans in territories where snooker is not otherwise broadcast will be able to watch the action live from every event on the WST calendar.* Click here...

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The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) and World Snooker Tour have today announced the qualification criteria for the 16 amateur places at the 2025 World Snooker Championship in Sheffield in April. The qualifying rounds will take place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield from 7-16 April to determine who will join the world’s elite top 16 ranked players at the...

The 2025 BetVictor Championship League Snooker Invitational is set to welcome 25 of the world’s best players, including defending champion Mark Selby, reigning World Champion Kyren Wilson, and fan favourites Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump. Returning to the Mattioli Arena in Leicester, the tournament runs from January 3 to February 4, 2025. Players will compete across seven intense group stag...

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Tournament information including the draw and format for the sixth event of 2024/25 WPBSA Q Tour Europe in Mons, Belgium is now available to view via WPBSA SnookerScores. View the knockout draw View the match schedule View player list The event will take place at the Delta Moon Snooker Club in Mons, Belgium with 87 players in the draw. Q Tour Europe is made up of seven tournaments and is part of t...

Ken Doherty defeated Tony Drago in a dramatic blue ball shootout to win the Mr Vegas World Seniors Snooker 900 title at Epsom Downs Racecourse. The victory means Doherty becomes the first player to win multiple titles under the World Seniors Snooker 900 format following his emotional success at Goffs earlier in the year. Six players embarked on Epsom for the fourth edition of the unique and exciti...

Silvino Francisco, a former world number ten and the only African player to win a ranking event, sadly passed away this month at the age of 78. Born in South Africa in 1946, Francisco hailed from a cue sports family as his brother Manny was a leading billiards player, while his nephew Peter later followed him in climbing into snooker’s top 16. Having moved to England to pursue a career on the baize, just as the sport was taking off in the UK, Francisco turned professional in 1981 and...

The World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association can today confirm that the third event of the 2024/25 Q Tour Middle East series will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 17-19 January 2025. In a change from the initially announced venue in Saudi Arabia, the event marks a return to the UAE Snooker Academy in Dubai which hosted the second event of the 2024/25 series as well as all thr...

Sense Active’s Sensory Sport Programme, which featured a Sensory Snooker Programme supported by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), has won the Inclusive Coaching Award at the 2024 UK Coaching Awards. The awards ceremony was held on Tuesday 10 December in Leeds with the most impactful coaches and organisations being recognised and celebrated. The Inclusive Coaching ...