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Haris Tahir
Haris Tahir (born 9 April 2000) is a Pakistani snooker player. He has earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour starting from the 2024-25 snooker season. Early and personal life He is from Lahore, Punjab. He has the nickname 'Mr. One-Visit' due to his break-building power, which had led to over a hundred centuries in amateur tournament play. He scored his first 147 break in Lahore in 2015. He Scored 147 in a Tournament as well in Lahore in 2022. To date, he has scored a maximum break three times including practice and competition. He won the Pakistan national under-18 championship in 2020. Career In 2017, Tahir was runner-up at the Pakistan national Under-21 Championship. In August of that year he reached the quarterfinal of the Pakistan National Ranking Snooker Championship in Karachi. He was the 2018 Punjab Champion. Then He won the 2020 Under-21 national championship. In October 2020, he reached the final of the Pakistan National Ranking Snooker Championship defeating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a population of over 14 million. Lahore is one of Pakistan's major industrial, educational and economic hubs. It has been the historic capital and cultural center of the wider Punjab region, and is one of Pakistan's most Social liberalism, socially liberal, Progressivism, progressive, and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities. Origins of Lahore, Lahore's origin dates back to antiquity. The city has been inhabited for around two millennia, although it rose to prominence in the late 10th century with the establishment of the Walled City of Lahore, Walled City, its fortified interior. Lahore served as the capital of several empires during the medieval era, including the Hindu Shahis, Gha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Wuhan Open (snooker)
The 2024 Wuhan Open (officially the 2024 Optics Valley of China Wuhan Open) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 6 to 12 October 2024 at the China Optics Valley Convention & Exhibition Center (COVCEC) in Wuhan, China. The sixth ranking event of the 202425 season, it followed the 2024 British Open and preceded the 2024 Northern Ireland Open. The winner received £140,000 from a total prize fund of £700,000. Qualifiers took place from 28 to 30 July 2024 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. Qualifying matches featuring the defending champion (Judd Trump); the reigning World Champion (Kyren Wilson); the two highest ranked Chinese players (Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda); four Chinese wildcards (Cai Wei, Wang Xinbo, Zhou Jinhao, and Huang Hao); and Mark Joyce were held over and played in Wuhan. Trump won the inaugural 2023 event, defeating Ali Carter 107 in the final, but he failed to defend his title, losing 26 in the semifinals to Si Jiahui. Xiao Guodo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker World Rankings
The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine their qualification and seeding for events on the World Snooker Tour and other tournaments, as well as their future professional status on the tour. First introduced in the 1976–77 snooker season, 1976–77 season, world rankings are maintained by the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA); Each player's world ranking is based on their performances, in terms of cumulative prize money earned in designated List of snooker tournaments#current ranking, ranking tournaments over the preceding two years. Every professional member of the WPBSA is assigned a ranking disregarding their activeness on the circuit. The List of world number one snooker players, current number one in world snooker rankings is Judd Trump from England, taken over from Northern Ireland's Mark Allen (snooker player), Mark Allen since 26 August 2024. Other forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025–26 Snooker Season
The 2025–26 snooker season is an upcoming professional snooker season with tournaments played between June 2025 and May 2026, including the professional World Snooker Tour, the second-tier Q Tour and featured events from World Women's Snooker and World Seniors Tour. Players The World Snooker Tour includes the top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2025 World Championship, plus the additional 31 players who earned a two-year card the previous year. Those 95 players will be joined by the 34 players who acquired a two-year tour card this year to form a 129–player tour for the 2025–26 season. New professional players won the 2025 World Snooker Championship as an amateur and re-joined the top 64 in the official world rankings to secure professional status for the season. The players listed below have received a two-year tour card for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 seasons. ;Top 4 players from the 2024–25 one-year ranking list ;International champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Astley (snooker Player)
John J. Astley (born 13 January 1989) is an English former professional snooker player from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Career Early career Astley first came into prominence in 2007 by winning the national Under-19 title (defeating Michael Georgiou in the final), however wins in the amateur PIOS tournaments proved hard to come by. His attempts to qualify for the main tour via Q School in 2011 and 2012 were unsuccessful as well. Nevertheless, Astley gained enough sponsorship to be able to enter all the PTC events in the 2012–13 season as an amateur. He reached the last 32 stage three times and finished fourth highest ranked amateur on the Order of Merit, winning a tour card for 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons. 2013/2014 Astley won his opening match of the season 5–2 against Mike Dunn to reach the main draw of the Wuxi Classic. In his first appearance in a ranking event Astley was whitewashed 5–0 by Robert Milkins. He won a match in a ranking event for the first time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haydon Pinhey
Haydon Pinhey is an English professional snooker player from Devon. He has earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour starting with the 2024–25 snooker season. Early life From Plymouth, Devon. Pinhey attended Sir John Hunt Community Sports College and worked at the Plaza Snooker Club on the Barbican of his home town. Currently Pinhey works and plays for the Legends Lounge within St Budeaux. Career He made his television debut at the 2021 Snooker Shoot Out. 2021/2022 Pinhey played in a number of professional events during the 2021-22 World Snooker Tour season, featuring in the Championship League, the Turkish Masters, the Gibraltar Open and the Snooker Shootout. He reached the final round of the third qualifying school event. 2022/2023 In July 2022 Pinhey got the biggest win of his career when he beat world number 21 Matthew Selt to qualify for the European Masters. Further success came at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out where he reached the last 64. At the 2023 WS ... [...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] |
2025 Championship League (ranking)
The 2025 Championship League (officially the 2025 BetVictor Championship League Snooker) is an upcoming professional ranking snooker tournament that will take place from 30 June to 23 July 2025 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. It is part of the 2025–26 snooker season. Ali Carter will be the defending champion, having defeated Jackson Page Jackson Page (born 8 August 2001) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He was born in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, and is a former European U-21 champion and the former Under-18 World Snooker Champion and in 2017 also became the Under-18 Europ ... 3–1 in the final of the previous ranking edition. References External links Matchroom Sport – Championship League Snooker {{Snooker tournaments Championship League Snooker ranking tournaments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 British Open
The 2025 British Open is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 22 to 28 September 2025 at the Centaur in Cheltenham, England. Qualifying (round1) will take place from 25 to 28 June 2025 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester. It is part of the 2025–26 snooker season. Mark Selby is the defending champion, having defeated John Higgins 105 in the 2024 final. Qualifying (round 1) The qualification matches are shown below. Cheltenham The results of the held over matches played in Cheltenham on 22 September will be given below. * v * Top up 1 v * v * v * v * v * v * v * v * v * v * v * v * Top up 3 v * v * v Leicester The results of the qualifying matches played in Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Doherty
Kenneth Joseph Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player who also works as a commentator and pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. From Ranelagh in Dublin, he is the sport's only World Snooker Championship, world champion from the Republic of Ireland, having won the title in 1997, and one of only five players from outside the United Kingdom to have won the title in the modern era. He was the first player to have won the world amateur and world professional title; Doherty was previously world U-21 champion. After moving from Dublin to London to pursue his snooker career, Doherty won the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the IBSF World Snooker Championship, World Amateur Championship in 1989. He turned professional the following year and reached the first of his 17 Snooker world rankings, ranking finals at the 1992 Grand Prix (snooker), 1992 Grand Prix, losing 9–10 to Jimmy White. He won the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Brecel
Luca Brecel (; born 8 March 1995) is a Belgian professional snooker player. A four-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, Brecel is a former World Snooker Championship, World Snooker Champion, having won the 2023 World Snooker Championship, 2023 event by defeating four-time champion Mark Selby in the final. Brecel trailed Si Jiahui 5–14 in the semi-final, but recovered to win 17–15. This comeback from nine frames behind is the biggest deficit ever overturned in the history of the World Championship at the Crucible Theatre. He became the first player from mainland Europe to win a ranking event when he won the 2017 China Championship, and then went on to win other ranking events: the 2021 Scottish Open (snooker), 2021 Scottish Open and 2022 Championship League (ranking), 2022 Championship League. He is the youngest player to compete in the World Snooker Championship making his debut in 2012 World Snooker Championship, 2012, aged 17 years and 45 days, and the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Wuhan Open (snooker)
The 2025 Wuhan Open is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 24 to 30 August 2025 in Wuhan, China. The qualifiers took place from 22 to 24 June at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. The third consecutive edition of the tournament since it was first staged in 2023 Wuhan Open (snooker), 2023, it will be the third List of snooker ranking tournaments, ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, 202526 snooker season, following the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters and preceding the 2025 English Open (snooker), 2025 English Open. The winner will receive £140,000 from a total prize fund of £700,000. Xiao Guodong is the defending champion, having defeated Si Jiahui 10–7 in the 2024 Wuhan Open (snooker), 2024 final. Overview The tournament is the third edition of the Wuhan Open (snooker), Wuhan Open. Judd Trump won the inaugural edition in 2023 Wuhan Open (snooker), 2023. At the second edition, held in 2024 Wuhan Open (snooker), 2024, Xia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
