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2017 Northern Ireland Open (snooker)
The 2017 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2017 Dafabet Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 and 26 November 2017 in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season and a part of the Home Nations Series. It was the second edition of the Northern Ireland Open. Mark King was the defending champion, but he was beaten 1–4 in the third round by Yan Bingtao. Yan went on to reach the final, becoming the youngest ever finalist of a ranking event. He faced Mark Williams, who won the 19th ranking title of his career by beating Yan 9–8. Williams had come from 7–8 behind to win, and denied Yan becoming the youngest ever winner of a ranking event. Ronnie O'Sullivan still holds that record for the 1993 UK Championship. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: * Winner: £70,000 * Runner-up: £30,000 * Semi-final: £20,000 * Quarter- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafabet
Dafabet is an online betting site. The company was founded on 7 November 2004 and is headquartered in Makati, Philippines. History Dafabet was founded on November 7, 2004, in Makati, Philippines under the subsidiary of the privately-owned company AsianBGE licensed by Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) and regulated by First Cagayan Leisure and Resorts (FCLRC). The company operated first in Asian countries then later advertised its UK presence by sponsoring football clubs such as Bournemouth, Norwich City, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Sunderland FC, Burnley FC, Everton FC and Celtic FC. It is sponsoring Pakistan Cricket Series in Pakistan as well. The company owns a remote UK license under AsianBGE (Isle of Man) Limited, managed and regulated by The Gambling Commission in Great Britain. Services Dafabet features In-Play gaming for sports events such as FIFA World Cup, Premier League, Barclays Premier League, National Basketball Association, US Open, and Ultimate Fight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker Season 2017/2018
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with twenty-two balls, comprising a , fifteen red balls, and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black—collectively called the colours. Using a cue stick, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the white to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each time the opposing player or team commits a . An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points. A snooker ends when a player reaches a predetermined number of frames. Snooker gained its identity in 1875 when army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ootacamund, Madras, and Jabalpur, devised a set of rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Day (snooker Player)
Ryan Day (born 23 March 1980) is a Welsh professional snooker player. A prolific break-builder, he has compiled over 400 century breaks during his career, including two maximum breaks. He is a three-time World Championship quarter-finalist, has been ranked at no. 6 in the world and has won four ranking tournaments. Career Early career Day was born in Pontycymer, Bridgend (county borough), Bridgend. A top amateur, he reached the final of the IBSF Championship in China in November 1998 but lost on the final black. Day began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour (snooker), UK Tour in 1998, at the time the second-level professional tour. He was named Young Player of Distinction of the season 2000/2001 by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). He won the 2001 Masters Qualifying Event, Benson & Hedges Championship. With this win, he qualified for the 2002 Masters (snooker), 2002 Masters, where he defeated Dave Harold, before losing 0–6 to Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Williams (snooker Player)
Robbie Williams (born 28 December 1986) is an English professional snooker player. Williams turned professional in 2012 after qualifying in Event 3 of the Q School and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 snooker seasons. Amateur career He has represented England in a number of amateur competitions, including the World Under 21 Championships in India. Williams has won the Merseyside Open five times. In 2010, he won the Paul Hunter English Open. In June 2011, he reached the last 16 of a PTC event, beating Peter Ebdon, Nick Jennings and Ali Carter, before losing to Graeme Dott. In March 2012, he was part of the England team who claimed victory in the European Team Championships. In May, he qualified for the main snooker tour by coming through the third Qualifying School event with a 4–3 win over Mitchell Mann in his final match, with a break of 102 in the deciding frame. Professional career Debut season Williams' first match as a professional w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Preece
Ian Preece (born 23 June 1982) is a Welsh former professional snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ... player, from the city of Newport. Preece first appeared on the World Snooker Tour, main tour in 2003, after a successful career as a junior; he held the record as the youngest winner of the IBSF World Snooker Championship, World Amateur Championship in 1999, when he beat David Lilley (snooker player), David Lilley 11–8 in the final. Career Until 2009 his best runs were to the last 48 of tournaments, which he has achieved in the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open, 2007 China Open (snooker), 2007 China Open, 2007 UK Championship, and 2008 Shanghai Masters. He reached the last 32 of an event for the first time at the 2009 Welsh Open (snooker), 2009 Wels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Curtis-Barrett
Jamie Curtis-Barrett (born 19 April 1984 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire) is an English snooker player. Career After playing snooker from the age of 11, Curtis-Barrett drifted away from the game after the death of his grandfather who had been a huge influence on his game. He began playing regularly again in the 2000s and earning a sponsor in 2009. As an amateur, he entered qualifying for both the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open and 2016 German Masters, losing in the first qualifying round of both tournaments. Curtis-Barrett turned professional in 2016 after finishing second on the Q-School Order of Merit. He won three matches in his opening season; defeating James Cahill 5–3 in Shanghai Masters qualifying before being eliminated by Jamie Jones; Matthew Selt 4–2 at the Northern Ireland Open before losing in the second round to David Gilbert; and a single frame encounter with Sam Baird in the Snooker Shoot-Out, where he was knocked out in the second round by eventual winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Hugill
Ashley Hugill (born 28 September 1994 in York, Yorkshire) is an English professional snooker player. Career In May 2017, Hugill came through Q-School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons. Hugill made a maximum break during event 3 of the 2019–20 Challenge Tour The 2019–20 Challenge Tour was a series of snooker tournaments that took place during the 2019–20 snooker season. The Challenge Tour (snooker), Challenge Tour was the second-tier tour for players not on the main World Snooker Tour. The top p .... Performance and rankings timeline Career finals Amateur finals: 4 (3 titles) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hugill, Ashley English snooker players Living people 1994 births Sportspeople from York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Boileau
Josh Boileau (born 2 July 1995 in Newbridge, County Kildare) is a former Irish professional snooker player. He is the 2016 Under-21 European Snooker Champion. Career In 2014 Boileau entered the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships in Bucharest where he reached the final, before he lost 6–1 Oliver Lines. Two years following his disappointment in Bucharest, Boileau once again made it to the final where he defeated Brandon Sargeant 6–1 to win the 2016 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championship, as a result he was given a two-year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons. His first win at the venue stage of a ranking event was at the Northern Ireland Open when he edged past Mike Dunn 4–3. Boileau then saw off Hamza Akbar 4–2, before losing 4–1 to Kurt Maflin. He overcame Hammad Miah 4–1 at the Welsh Open to set up a second round meeting with Shaun Murphy, who Boileau said inspired him to start playing snooker af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton (born 7 July 1979 in Perth, WA) is an Australian billiards player. He is one of the most successful English billiards players of his country. Internationally, he is also successful as a snooker player where he became professional in 2017. Career Between 2000 and 2017 Matthew Bolton was the 15-time winner of the Australian National Billiards Championship and unbeaten from 2004 on (in 2012 he could not participate). He is the most successful billiards player in his country since Bob Marshall who won 21 titles. In 2011 and 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ... he was runner-up in the respective world championships and world number 1 in the 2012/2013 season. Bolton also became the national snooker champion in 2014. He qualified for the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximum Break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven) is the highest possible in a single of snooker. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, followed by all six for a further 27 points. Compiling a maximum break is regarded as a particularly significant achievement in the game of snooker, and may be compared to a nine-dart finish in darts or a 300 game in ten-pin bowling. The first officially recognised maximum break was made by Joe Davis in a 1955 exhibition match in London. At the Classic in January 1982, Steve Davis achieved the first recognised maximum in professional competition, which was also the first maximum to occur during a televised match. The following year, Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum at the World Snooker Championship. At the UK Championship in December 2013, Mark Selby compiled the 100th recognised maximum break in professional competition. Ronnie O'Sullivan holds th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 UK Championship (snooker)
The 1993 Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Guild Hall in Preston, England. The event started on 12 November 1993, and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 20 and 28 November 1993. The highest break of the tournament was a 141 made by David Roe. Ronnie O'Sullivan became the youngest winner of a ranking event at the age of 17 years and 358 days by defeating Stephen Hendry 10–6 in the final; as of 2023 this record still stands. This was the first of O'Sullivan's record seven titles at the tournament. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: *Total Prize money: £375,000 *Winner: £70,000 *Runner-up: £35,000 *Semi-Final: £18,500 *Quarter-Final: £10,325 *Last 16: £5,250 *Last 32: £3,000 *Last 64: £1,850 *Last 96: £650 *Last 128: £475 *High break (TV stages): £3,000 *High break (Pre TV stages): £1,500 *Maximum break (TV stage): £20,000 *Maximum break (Pre TV sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player who is the current world champion and world number one. Widely recognised as one of the most talented and accomplished players in the sport's history, he has won the World Snooker Championship seven times, a modern-era record he holds jointly with Stephen Hendry. He has won a record seven Masters and a record seven UK Championship titles for a record total of 21 Triple Crown titles, the most achieved by any player. He holds the record for the most ranking titles, with 39, and has been world number one on seven season ending occasions. After an impressive amateur career, O'Sullivan turned professional in 1992, aged 16. He won his first professional ranking event at the 1993 UK Championship aged 17 years and 358 days, making him the youngest player to win a ranking title, a record he still holds. He is also the youngest player to win the Masters, which he first achieved in 1995, aged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
