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LIMITED SEATS NOW AVAILABLE GENERAL SALE TICKETS AVAILABLE FRIDAY 10 MAY Following a release of priority-sale tickets, only a limited number of seats are now available for general sale this Friday, 10 May, to watch the teams compete in the Sunshine State live. The cauldron-like arena will return at the new venue, Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, to accommodate the 2,500 fans traveling from far and...

Mosconi Cup Captains Jayson Shaw and Skyler Woodward secured opening wins in dominant fashion at the BetVictor 2024 UK Open live on broadcasters worldwide, including DAZN, Viaplay, and Sky Sports in the UK. BRACKET/SCORES BUY TICKETS Shaw's 9-1 triumph and Woodward's 9-2 victory set the pace for top World Nineball Tour players like Albin Ouschan, David Alcaide, Aloysius Yapp, and Mortiz Neuhausen,...

08/05/2024 BRENTWOOD, ESSEX – Matchroom Sport is delighted to announce today a ground-breaking, global partnership with industry-leading sports marketing agency Pitch International. The landmark deal sees Pitch International complete a significant investment to bring a new strategic alignment between the pioneering sports entities. The alliance promises to futureproof Matchroom’s position as a...

Defending Champion Eklent Kaçi's title defense kicked off with a tough battle against Jose Alberto Delgado on the opening day of the BetVictor 2024 UK Open Pool Championship at the Telford International Centre, with the likes of Francisco Sanchez Ruiz, Fedor Gorst, Shane Van Boening, and Duong Quoc Hoang amongst the list of top names to not fumble yet live on broadcasters worldwide, including DAZ...

Live snooker continues at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield this week as Jimmy White looks to defend his Mr Vegas World Seniors Snooker Championship crown and lift a record-extending fifth title. Draw Schedule Sixteen cueists from eight nations will compete from Wednesday 8 May with the champion to be crowned on the afternoon of Sunday 12 May. For the first time, the Mr Vegas World Seniors Snooker...

Kyren Wilson became the 23rd player to lift the famous Cazoo World Championship trophy at the Crucible, beating Jak Jones 18-14 in the final. Frame by Frame Having won the first seven frames during the opening session on Sunday, Wilson was able to nurse his advantage to the winning post, and although tenacious Jones fought hard, he couldn’t narrow the gap to less than three. By coming from 17-11 to 17-14 he created an exciting finish, but it proved too little, too late. Wilson’ s scoring...

The draw has been made for the 2024 UK Open Pool Championship taking place at the Telford International Centre, Telford, England, May 7-12, with tickets available from only £20 to enjoy the action as 256 players battle it out for a share of $200,000. BUY TICKETS Duong Quoc Hoang, the new Scottish Open champion, kicks off the day and starts his bid to win the UK Open against Spencer Oliver of Grea...

World Seniors Snooker is delighted to announce the return of the Seniors of Sheffield Day which will take place during the World Seniors Snooker Championship on Friday 10 May. In partnership with Age UK Sheffield, the day will bring 600 local residents from the aging population in the city to the Crucible Theatre to watch the event and meet some legends of the snooker world. The number of over 50’s experiencing loneliness is set to reach two million by 2025/6. This compares to around 1.4...

For many years Wales has been a hotbed of talent for the World Snooker Tour and in the latest episode of the WPBSA Snooker Podcast we discuss just a few of the stars from the valleys to have made their imprint upon our sport. Host Michael McMullan is joined by Wayne Griffiths, son of 1979 world champion Terry Griffiths and leading snooker coach in his own right, as well as WPBSA Player Relations Manager and former Tour player Neil Tomkins to recount their own fascinating experiences of...

WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson has paid tribute to Germany’s Rolf Kalb who will retire from snooker after a 40-year career following the conclusion of the final of the Cazoo World Snooker Championship today. Kalb has worked as a snooker journalist, commentator, and MC for the past four decades and has become synonymous with snooker in Germany as the popularity of the sport grew in the nation. He ...

Seven coaches have been awarded their WPBSA 1st4sport Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Advanced Snooker Skills at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield during the Cazoo World Snooker Championship. The coaches, who are the first to pass the new qualification as part of the WPBSA Coaching Programme, were awarded their certificates by WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson and Head of Coaching and Training Develop...

Las Vegas, NEVADA – The VNEA (Valley National 8-Ball League Association) has just announced that female Billiard World Champion “Kwikfire” Kelly Fisher and Pro Billiard Champ Wei Wei “The Wave” -Wei Tzu Chien- will make a celebrity guest appearance for two days at the 2024 VNEA World Pool Championships in Las Vegas, NV. The 44th Annual VNEA World Pool Championships will begin on Thursday...

The World Nineball Tour is delighted to announce that BetVictor, a leading online gambling company, will be the title sponsor for the 2024 UK Open Pool Championship, at Telford International Centre, Telford, England May 7-12, live on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom & Ireland. PURCHASE YOUR TICKET HERE! Bringing together an impressive field size of 256 competing players, including the top 128 Worl...

May 3rd, 2024 BetVictor has expanded its longstanding affiliation with Matchroom Sport, solidifying its title sponsorship for a range of upcoming snooker, pool, and darts tournaments. As a leading betting firm, BetVictor has collaborated with various sports and events across the Matchroom Group for many years, and it aims to further enhance this partnership in the coming months. During the 2024/25...

Two WPBSA Level 1 coaching courses have been staged remotely during the Cazoo World Snooker Championship for 30 new coaches in Australia and the Americas. Led by Head of Coaching Chris Lovell and qualified Level 3 advanced coaches Andrew Highfield and Nigel Bond, the sessions were staged online and at Ding Junhui’s Snooker Academy in Sheffield with participants from the Australian Billiards & Sn...

JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA – 1 May, 2024: World Nineball Tour No.1 Francisco Sanchez Ruiz has heralded a grand, new era for the sport as he looks forward to defending his world title at this year’s World Pool Championship – which marks the beginning of a major 10-year partnership for the premier tournament in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The crown jewel of the WNT, the World Pool Championship, wil...

WNT is thrilled to announce the return to the heart of Vietnam for the eagerly awaited Mansion Sports Hanoi Open Pool Championship October 8–13, sponsored by the prestigious leading sports investment firm, Mansion Sports & Entertainment Group. In partnership with Nineball’s host UK broadcaster Sky Sports, this electrifying spectacle on the World Nineball Tour will once again grace the Hanoi In...

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) hosted one of its first ‘sensory snooker’ sessions this week in support of the charity Sense . First announced back in March , the sessions aim to reinvent and create simpler versions of popular sports, including snooker, for people with complex disabilities. One of the pilot ‘sensory snooker’ sessions was held on Monday at L...

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Tickets for the 2024 Mosconi Cup, from 30 November to 3 December at the Caribe Royale resort in Orlando, Florida, will go on Priority Sale from Wednesday, 8 May at 6pm BST/1PM EST with General Sale to follow from Friday, 10 May at 6pm BST/1PM EST. The biggest event on the World Nineball Tour calendar will be live on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom & Ireland. Sign up for pre-sale access here Click...