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The final stages of the 2024 Victorian Plumbing UK Championship run from November 23rd to December 1st at the York Barbican. Ronnie O’Sullivan defends the title against the best players in the world. There’s still time to buy tickets from just £25 – for details click here Or you can watch live from home or on the move. The broadcasters are… UK BBC, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website. For details of coverage click here Europe (including UK and Ireland) Eurosport and discovery+ China...

Mark Williams claimed a maiden Grosvenor Casinos Champion of Champions title after defeating Xiao Guodong 10-6 in Bolton. The momentous triumph came in a week which also saw Williams clinch his first match win in the event. The world number six had exited in the first round in all of his three previous appearances. Evergreen Welshman Williams is still thrilling fans around the world with his unique brand of snooker, just five months short of his 50th birthday. Earlier this year, he...

Following the outcome of the independent tribunal involving Mark King, WPBSA Players (the players’ association) acknowledge the decision of the independent Disciplinary Commission announced yesterday. The WPBSA Players Board of Directors is extremely saddened by the actions of Mark King, who has been found guilty of such serious breaches of the WPBSA rules. WPBSA Players has provided practical support to Mark during the case to ensure that he had a clear understanding of the process...

Gary Wilson was hailed alongside Newcastle sporting heroes like Alan Shearer and Bobby Robson by being awarded the Wilkinson Sword for Lifetime Achievement. The Wallsend cueman received the award at a ceremony last night. If came after two years which have seen him go from winning his maiden ranking title at the 2022 Scottish Open, to defending that crown a year later and then adding the Welsh Ope...

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The Independent Disciplinary Committee has delivered its decision on the case of the WPBSA and Mark King. He has been found guilty of one count of match fixing and one count of providing inside information on that match. He has been suspended from the sport for 5 years and to pay £68,299.50 in costs. On 18th March 2023 Mark King was suspended by the WPBSA after suspicious betting was reported on his match with Joe Perry played on 13th February 2023. The WPBSA supported by bet monitoring...

Tickets for the 2024 BetOnline Mosconi Cup Press Conference are on sale now, offering fans an exclusive chance to see Team USA and Team Europe come face-to-face for the first time ahead of this year’s competition. Don’t miss this exclusive preview as the teams meet at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, on November 29 from 3 pm. PURCHASE PRESS CONFERENCE TICKETS HERE LIMITED TICKETS ...

Fifteen-year-old Mykhail Larkov defeated Kyrylo Baidala 5-1 in the final of the 2024 Ukrainian National Snooker Championship. The event was staged in Lviv from 7-12 November 2024 and saw a total of 48 cueists competing for the prestigious national title. Larkov, who is from Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine, began his campaign at the last 16 stage where he comfortably whitewashed Andrii Ivasiv to re...

Ding Junhui secured the 15th ranking title of his illustrious career with a 10-7 defeat of Chris Wakelin in the final of the International Championship in Nanjing. Chinese sporting icon Ding has now triumphed in seven ranking events in his native country, but this week’s victory is a first on home soil since 2017. Ding’s last victory in China came at the World Open seven years ago, when he bea...

The schedule is now confirmed for the 2024 Grosvenor Casinos Champion of Champions, where defending champion Mark Allen will kick off the event against World Seniors Champion Igor Figueiredo. Taking place from 11th to 17th November at Bolton’s Toughsheet Community Stadium, this year’s Champion of Champions promises a thrilling week of competition featuring snooker’s top stars. The event will...

Zhao Xintong has defeated Ryan Davies 4-1 to win back-to-back WPBSA Q Tour Europe titles at Club 200 in Manchester, England. View full results via WPBSA SnookerScores Following his recent triumph at the previous event in Sweden – during which he also made the first-ever 147 break at a Q Tour event – China’s Zhao repeated the feat by again making a sensational maximum break on his way to lift...

The teams are set for the highly anticipated 2024 BetOnline Mosconi Cup, with Team USA and Team Europe preparing to face off in the Sunshine State for the first time in the event’s history. Taking place at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando from 30 November to 3 December, this prestigious tournament will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK, DAZN in the USA, and by other broadcasters world...

The World Nineball Tour is thrilled to announce BetOnline, the global sports betting giant, as the official title sponsor for the 2024 Mosconi Cup. This year's competition will take place from November 30 to December 3 at Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida, and will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and on DAZN in the USA and Brazil. BetOnline to title sponsor the 2024 Mo...

Xu Si composed the second 147 break of his career, crafting the perfect run in his clash with Ryan Day at the International Championship in Nanjing. The break came in the sixth frame of their last 32 encounter, which Xu won 6-2. That places him in line to claim the £5,000 high break prize on offer for the event. It’s the second 147 break in the space of a year for Xu, following his perfect run at 2023 UK Championship qualifying. There have now been five 147 breaks this season and 207 in...

The WPBSA and World Snooker Tour (WST) have today revealed the elite amateur players who have qualified to compete at the 2024 UK Championship through recognised WPBSA pathways. The historic Triple Crown Series event will again feature a tiered format, which will see the top 16 seeded through to the final stages, to be held at the York Barbican from 23 November – 1 December 2024. The remaining p...

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has today announced that Nigel Oldfield has joined its Governance Board as a Director of Sports Development and Operations with immediate effect. Having first joined the WPBSA in 1988 as Assistant Tournament Director, Oldfield was heavily involved in the amateur game and creation of tour pathways to the professional game. He was also...

David Causier defeated Robert Hall 2,088-1,109 to win the 2024 World Billiards Championship at the Landywood Snooker Club in Walsall, England. Results England’s Causier, who last won the title in 2022, was in dominant form as he won each of his knockout matches leading up to the final by a margin of more than 1,000 points before defeating fellow countryman Hall to once again secure the biggest p...

The historic city of Nanjing will host a world ranking event for the first time with the International Championship, running from November 3-10. It’s a strong field at the 1865 Innovation Hall in Qinhuai District, Nanjing, as Zhang Anda defends the title against the likes of Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Allen, John Higgins, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Ding Junhui, Si Jiahui and many more. For the match schedule, click here. Wherever you are...

There is now just one tournament to be concluded ahead of the crucial seeding cut-off for this season’s first Triple Crown Series event of the season – the UK Championship. Latest provisional seedings Following the change to the format in 2022 which has since seen the UK Championship adopt a tiered format in line with the World Championship, the event will once again see the top 16 players see...