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Having shot to fame by beating Ronnie O’Sullivan, teenager Aaron Hill talks to The42 about the challenges of settling into the professional snooker tour.

After winning the first of his three UK titles, Ding was expected to add the world championship trophy to his collection.

Isle of Wight snooker player, Paul Oatley, played the match of his life when he met former World Champion, Ken Doherty.

A BRAVE victim of depraved ­paedophile Jack Manning last night branded the fiend “Ireland’s Jimmy Savile”.Survivor Thomas O’Callaghan, 57, fr

Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy will contest today’s Betfred World Championship final — but both came in for criticism after their semi-final wins at the Crucible.The three-times winner Selby prevailed

Higgins, OSullivan and Murphy: still going strong Tennis has Roger Federer and Serena Williams, football Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and American football Tom Brady. But for ageing talent defying their years, there is no rival to snooker. Attempting to predict the winner of the World Championship, which began in Sheffield on Saturday, is not only an almost identical task to a decade ago but, remarkably, not too dissimilar from the turn of the century. Ronnie O’Sullivan, who won the sport’s showpiec...

Irish snooker starting on long road back to glory days Updated / Saturday, 17 Apr 2021 09:10 The World Snooker Championships begins today. Judd Trump is the favourite after a stellar season which has seen him win five tournaments, while Ronnie OSullivan is the defending champion and can match Stephen Hendrys modern record of seven titles with a victory in two weeks time. Or might this be the year when we finally see a winner from outside of a current or former British Commonwealth country? The...

After claiming his first ranking title earlier this season in Wales, Jordan Brown tells RTÉ Sport that he wants to cap off his season with a second trip to the Crucible.

Doherty up against it in bid to qualify for Crucible Updated / Tuesday, 6 Apr 2021 14:46 Ken Doherty has to win two frames tonight Ken Dohertys hopes of playing in this year’s World Championships are hanging by a thread after he fell 5-4 behind to Lee Walker in the first round, as the former champion was forced off the table due to the length of the game. Doherty looked to be on his way to the second round after taking a 4-1 lead over the Englishman in the best of 11 encounter, but he surren...

Qualifying marathon starts tomorrow 128 players set out at Sheffields Institute of Sport aiming to qualify for the main event at the Crucible Theatre, which starts on the 17th. 16 places are up for grabs, so the players are split into groups of eight. The first three rounds are played over best-of-11 frames, before a best-of-19 final. We kick off with a match-up that rightly warrants more attention than anything well see in qualifying and much of the Crucible action. They may both be no-hopers...