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Higgins, O'Sullivan 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 showpiece tournament in 2001, is No 1 seed for the event, with John Higgins, the man he beat 20 years ago, ...

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 O'Sullivan is the defending champion and can match Stephen Hendry's 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? There was disappointment for the Irish players involved in the qualifiers, with all eight failing to...

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 Doherty's 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 surrender the next four frames in a match which started at 9.30am.

Qualifying marathon starts tomorrow 128 players set out at Sheffield's 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 we'll see in qualifying and much of the Crucible action. They may both be no-hopers for the title but is there really a snooker fan out there who won't be tuning into