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Six-red
Six-red snooker (sometimes spelled six-reds, 6-red, and also known as super 6s), is a variant of snooker, but with only six initially on the table as opposed to the standard fifteen. Overview In Six-red snooker, the traditional game of snooker is shortened, with fewer red balls to pot. All the usual Snooker rules apply with the following exceptions: #There will be no more than five consecutive Foul and a Miss calls at any one time. #After four consecutive Foul and a Miss calls, the referee will warn the offending player that should a Foul and a Miss be called again the following options are available to the non-striker: ##play himself from where the balls have come to rest; ##ask his opponent to play from where the balls have come to rest; ##place the cue ball anywhere on the table, but this option cannot be taken if play has reached the "snookers required" stage. #A player cannot snooker behind a nominated colour at any time. The maximum break in six-red snooker is 75, as comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers British Raj, stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with 22 balls, comprising a white , 15 red balls and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black—collectively called ''. Using a snooker cue, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the cue ball to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each committed by the opposing player or team. An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points, and a snooker ends when a player wins a predetermined number of frames. In 1875, army officer Neville Chamberlain (police officer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Williams (snooker Player)
Mark James Williams (born 21March 1975) is a Welsh professional snooker player who is a three-time World Champion, winning the title in 2000, 2003 and 2018. He has been ranked the world number one player three times (May 2000 May 2002, May 2003 May 2004 and May 2011 September 2011). His most successful season to date was 200203, when he won snooker's Triple Crown—the UK Championship, the Masters and the World Championship—making him only the third player, after Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry, to have won all three events in the same season. He is the first, and to date, the only player to win all three versions of the professional world championship: the World Snooker Championship, the Six-red World Championship and the World Seniors Championship. Williams became a professional player in 1992. He has won 26 ranking tournaments, including two UK Championships (1999 and 2002), placing him sixth on the all-time list of ranking titles. He has also won the Masters tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Six-red World Championship
The 2009 Six-red World Championship (styled the 888sport.com 6Red World Championship, among other spellings, for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 18 December 2009 at the INEC in Killarney, Ireland. The tournament was sponsored by online bookmaker 888sport. The field of 118 players were divided into twenty groups of five and three groups of six. Twenty-eight competitors were on the 2009/2010 professional Main Tour. During the tournament Michael White compiled the fastest 75 maximum break in the group stage with 2 minutes and 28 seconds. Mark Davis won in the final 6–3 against Mark Williams. __TOC__ Group stage ;Group A * Declan Brennan 4–1 Martin Divilly * Igor Figerideo 4–0 Kevin Bowman * Ricky Walden 4–0 Kevin Bowman * Ricky Walden 3–4 Declan Brennan * Igor Figueiredo 4–0 Martin Divilly * Martin Divilly 4–2 Kevin Bowman * Igor Figueiredo 4–0 Declan Brennan * Ricky Walden 4–1 Marti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six-red World Championship
The Six-red World Championship is a six-red snooker tournament, played with the six and six . Ding Junhui is the reigning champion. History The event was first held in the 2008–09 snooker season, 2008/2009 season, and was known as the Six-red Snooker International. The event was organised by the Asian Confederation of Billiards Sports. Forty-eight players were divided in 8 Round-robin tournament, round-robin groups. The top four from each group moved into the Single-elimination tournament, knock-out stage. In 2009 the event was renamed the Six-red World Grand Prix. In 2010, it replaced a 2009 Six-red World Championship, rival tournament (sponsored by 888sport) as the official six red snooker world championship, after the other event—held once in 2009—was discontinued. The event was not held in the 2011–12 snooker season, 2011/2012 season, but it returned for the 2012–13 snooker season, 2012/2013 season with the backing of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Six-red Snooker International
The 2008 Six-red Snooker International (also known as the 2008 SangSom 6-red Snooker International for promotional and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament that took place between 8 and 13 July 2008 at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Twenty-one of the tournament's 48 competitors were currently on the 2008/09 main tour of the more established 15-reds game, including former world champions Peter Ebdon and Ken Doherty, 2007 finalist Mark Selby and the hugely successful Jimmy White. A relatively high proportion of competitors were from Asia. __TOC__ Round-robin stage The top four players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage. All matches were best of 9 frames. Group A * Jimmy White 5–0 Martin Gould * Issara Kachaiwong 2–5 Aditya Mehta * Mark Selby 5–0 Gregory Kopec * Jimmy White 1–5 Gregory Kopec * Issara Kachaiwong 4–5 Martin Gould * Aditya Mehta 5–4 Gregory Kopec * Mark Selby 4–5 Jimmy White * Aditya Mehta 4� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davis (snooker Player)
Mark Davis (born 12 August 1972) is an English professional snooker player from St Leonards-on-Sea, St Leonards in Sussex. He became professional in 1991, and for many years was considered something of a Journeyman#Modern journeyman, journeyman; however, he vastly improved his game in the late 2000s, and as a result in 2012 made his debut in the top 16. The highlights of his career so far have been winning the Benson & Hedges Championship in 2002 (earning him an appearance at the Masters (snooker), Masters), and the six-red snooker world championships three times (in 2009 Six-red World Championship, 2009, 2012 Six-red World Championship, 2012 and 2013 Six-red World Championship, 2013). Davis reached his first ranking event final in 2018, losing to Stuart Bingham in the final of the 2018 English Open (snooker), English Open. Career Davis made his debut in the main draw of the World Snooker Championship, World Championship in 1994 World Snooker Championship, 1994, losing in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester. Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi Classic and the 2014 International Championship and has been inside the top 16 in the season-ending rankings on four occasions. A former world Top 6 player, Walden has reached the televised stages of the World Snooker Championship on nine occasions as of 2023, with his best result being a semi-finalist in 2013. Early years Walden was born in Chester but raised in Bagillt, North Wales, where he now lives once more, having spent some time living elsewhere in Flintshire. He was one of the Young Players of Distinction in a scheme run in 2000, designed to help young players develop their playing and media skills, alongside Shaun Murphy, Stephen Maguire and Ali Carter. In 2001 he won the World Under-21 Championship. Career 1999–201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twenty20
Twenty20 (abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of twenty over (cricket), overs. Together with First-class cricket, first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the three forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as being played at the highest level, both internationally and domestically. A typical Twenty20 match lasts just over 3 hours, with each innings lasting around 90 minutes and an official 10-minute break between the innings. This is much shorter than previous forms of the game, and is closer to the timespan of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a fast-paced game that would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television. The game has succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Record (Scotland)
The ''Daily Record'' is a Scottish national tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. The newspaper is published Monday–Saturday and its website is updated on an hourly basis, seven days a week. The ''Record'' sister title is the '' Sunday Mail''. Both titles are owned by Reach plc and have a close kinship with the UK-wide ''Daily Mirror'' as a result. The ''Record'' covers UK news and sport with a Scottish focus. Its website boasts the largest readership of any publisher based in Scotland. The title was at the forefront of technological advances in publishing throughout the 20th century and became the first European daily newspaper to be produced in full colour. As the ''Record'' print circulation has declined in line with other national papers, it has focused increasing attention on expanding its digital news operation. Foundation and early history The ''Daily Record'' was first published in 1895 in Glasgow as a sister title to the ''North British Daily Mail''. The ''Mail'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cue Sports At The 2017 Asian Indoor And Martial Arts Games
Cue sports for the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan was held at the Ashgabat Billiard Sports Arena. It took place from 19 to 26 September 2017. Medalists Men Women Medal table Results Men Three-cushion singles English billiards singles Nine-ball singles Nine-ball doubles Russian pyramid free singles Russian pyramid dynamic singles Russian pyramid combined singles Snooker singles Snooker team Six-red snooker singles Women Nine-ball singles Ten-ball singles Six-red snooker singles References External links * {{2017–18 snooker season Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ... Events at the 2017 Asian Indoor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
