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2019–20 Championship League
The 2019–2020 Championship League was a professional snooker tournament, taking place over most of the 2019-20 snooker season from 7 October 2019 to 5 March 2020 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England. The event features seven group stages before a finals stage in March 2020; the first four played in October, two in January, and the final group played in March. It was the 13th staging of the Championship League. The event featured a total prize fund of £182,400 with the winner receiving £20,700. The losing finalist received £6,000 more than the winner due to having played in all groups starting from Group 3. Martin Gould was the defending champion, having won the 2019 Championship League, 2019 edition of the tournament, beating Jack Lisowski 3–1 in the final. However, Gould did not participate in this event. Scott Donaldson won the tournament, having qualified from group four and defeated Graeme Dott 3–0 in the final. This was the first professional snooker titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Championship League
Championship League (officially the BetVictor Championship League Snooker) is a professional snooker tournament devised by Matchroom Sport. The event was introduced in 2008 Championship League, 2008 as an invitational qualifier to the Premier League Snooker series, where there is no audience and matches are played behind closed doors, and has since kept the unique format despite the discontinuation of the Premier League in 2012. It is one of the only tournaments that is not directly sanctioned by the World Snooker Tour along with the Champion of Champions (snooker), Champion of Champions. The tournament was originally held at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Stock, Essex until 2016 and has since been held in Coventry, Barnsley, Milton Keynes and currently in Leicester. A Snooker world rankings, ranking open event version of the tournament began in the 2020–21 snooker season, 2020–21 season and is held alongside with the non-ranking version. Mark Selby is the reigning champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Champion Of Champions
The 2020 Champion of Champions (officially the 2020 888sport Champion of Champions) was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 2 and 8 November 2020 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. It was the tenth Champion of Champions event, the first of which was held in 1978. The tournament featured 16 participants, primarily winners of important tournaments since the 2019 Champion of Champions. As an invitational event, the Champion of Champions tournament carries no world ranking points. Neil Robertson was the defending champion, having defeated Judd Trump 10–9 in the 2019 final. Robertson made the final again, but lost 10–6 to Mark Allen, who won the tournament for the first time. On the first day, John Higgins made his 800th career century, although he lost the match to Ding Junhui. Prize fund * Winner: £150,000 * Runner-up: £60,000 * Semi-final: £30,000 * Group runner-up: £17,500 * First round loser: £12,500 * Total: £440,000 Qualific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyren Wilson
Kyren James Wilson (; born 23 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Kettering. He has won 10 ranking titles. Wilson made his professional tour debut in the 2010–11 snooker season, 2010–11 season after finishing fifth in the 2009–10 International Open Series rankings. He dropped off the tour after one season but regained his tour card for the 2013–14 snooker season, 2013–14 season and has played professionally since. In September 2015, while Snooker world rankings, ranked 54th in the world, he won his first ranking title by defeating Judd Trump 109 in the final of the 2015 Shanghai Masters, Shanghai Masters. His other ranking titles include the 2019 German Masters, where he defeated David Gilbert (snooker player), David Gilbert 97 in the final; the 2022 European Masters (2022–23 season), 2022 European Masters, where he defeated Barry Hawkins 9–3 in the final; the inaugural 2024 Xi'an Grand Prix, where he defeated Trump 10–8 in the final; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Wilson (snooker Player)
Gary Wilson (born 11 August 1985) is an English professional snooker player from Wallsend in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear. After showing promise from a young age, Wilson won the IBSF World U-21 Championship before turning professional in 2004. He dropped off the tour in 2006, however, and did not regain his professional status until 2013. During his second period as an amateur, Wilson won the English Amateur Championship in 2012 and reached the final of the World Amateur Championship the same year. Noted for his cue ball control and break-building ability, Wilson has won three ranking titles, the Scottish Open in 2022 and 2023, and the 2024 Welsh Open. He was also runner-up at the 2015 China Open and the 2021 British Open, as well as reaching the semi-final of the 2019 World Championship as a qualifier. Career Early career Wilson started playing snooker aged three and soon started showing promise. At the age of 8 he had already been put into a team performing in the loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Woollaston
Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 3, third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. Woollaston's only Snooker world rankings, ranking event final came at the 2015 Welsh Open (snooker), 2015 Welsh Open, in which he lost to John Higgins. Career Born in Leicester, England, Woollaston began his professional career by playing the Challenge Tour (snooker), Challenge Tour in 2003, at the time the second-level professional tour. He first entered the Main Tour for the 2004–05 snooker season, 2004–05 season, but was unable to retain his place for the following season. He regained his place for 2006–07 snooker season, 2006–07 by winning the European Under-19 Championship. He was awarded a concessionary place for the 2007–08 snooker season, 2007–08 tour. Woollaston has twice reached the final group stages of the Grand Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiao Guodong
Xiao Guodong (; born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the 2024 Wuhan Open (snooker), 2024 Wuhan Open, beating Si Jiahui 107 in only the third all-Chinese ranking event final. He also took part in the first ever all-Chinese ranking event final, when he lost 610 to Ding Junhui in the 2013 Shanghai Masters. Career 2007–2010 Xiao appeared as a wildcard in the 2007 China Open (snooker), 2007 China Open, and beat the then world number 50 Tom Ford (snooker player), Tom Ford 5–3, before losing 0–5 to Matthew Stevens. In his first ranking tournament, the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix he finished 4th in his qualifying group by winning 3 out his 7 matches. In the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy he beat Leo Fernandez 5-1 and Jimmy White 5–0, before he lost to David Gilbert (snooker player), D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, the quarter-finals of the 2004 British Open (snooker), 2004 British Open and the semi-finals of the 2005 Welsh Open (snooker), 2005 Welsh Open. He has spent twenty successive seasons ranked inside the top 32. Hawkins reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open. Hawkins has won four ranking titles. Hawkins played in the televised stages of every World Championship between his Crucible Theatre debut in 2006 World Snooker Championship, 2006 and his failure to qualify in 2023 World Snooker Championship, 2023. He lost in the first round on his first five appearances but reached the second round in 2011 World Snooker Championship, 2011 and 2012 World Snooker Championship, 2012. Rated an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Selby
Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Ranked List of world number one snooker players, world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 24 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all-time list of List of snooker players by number of ranking titles, ranking tournament winners. He is a four-time World Snooker Championship, World Snooker Champion, and has won the Masters (snooker), Masters three times and the UK Championship twice for a total of nine Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown titles, putting him on a par with John Higgins, and behind only Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ronnie O’Sullivan (23), Stephen Hendry (18) and Steve Davis (15). After winning the England Under-15 Championship in 1998, Selby turned professional in 1999, aged 16. He made his Crucible debut in 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005, and reached his first World Championship final in 2007 World Snooker Championship, 2007, when he was runner-up to John Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Bingham
Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner. Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his professional career. His form improved in his mid-thirties: at age 35, he won his first ranking title at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open, which helped him enter the top 16 in the rankings for the first time. Since then he has established himself as one of the best snooker players of his generation. At 38, Bingham won the 2015 World Championship, defeating Shaun Murphy 18–15 in the final. The oldest first-time world champion in snooker history, he was the second player, after Ken Doherty, to have won world titles at both amateur and professional levels. His world title took him to a career-high number two in the world rankings, a spot he held until March 2017. In 2017, Bingham received a six-month ban from professional competition afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Day (snooker Player)
Ryan Day (born 23 March 1980) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He is a prolific break-builder, having compiled over 450 century breaks during his career, including four 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Robertson
Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is the most successful player from outside the United Kingdom and the only non-UK born player to have completed snooker's Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown, having won the World Snooker Championship, World Championship in 2010 World Snooker Championship, 2010, the Masters (snooker), Masters in 2012 Masters (snooker), 2012 and 2022 Masters (snooker), 2022 and the UK Championship in 2013 UK Championship, 2013, 2015 UK Championship, 2015 and 2020 UK Championship, 2020. He has claimed 25 career ranking titles and won at least one professional tournament each year between 2006 and 2022. Robertson first turned professional in the 1998-99 snooker season, 199899 season but was unsuccessful and dropped off the tour. He rejoined the tour for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Donaldson PHC 2012-1
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