The China Open 2019 was played in Beijing from April 1 to April 7, 2019. Neil Robertson beat Jack Lisowski by 11-4 in the final. It was quite a successful event from the Grove as the semi finals featured three of their players. Neil Robertson emerged the winner – by 10-7 – of an all Grove battle against Luca Brecel. It was a very high quality match. Jack Lisowski outplayed his opponent, Scott Donaldson in the other semi final, which he won by 10-1.
Neil was appearing in his fourth consecutive …
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Having reached the Final at the Masters for the first time, Judd Trump went on to win the title in emphatic manner. He completely outplayed Ronnie O’Sullivan in the final, beating him by 10-4. Judd made most of the damage in the first session, which he won by 7-1.
Ronnie came fighting back in the evening, but could only share the session. All week Judd played solid snooker. His safety game was excellent, his potting devastating, and, above all his discipline was impeccable. After the match, Judd thanked his family …
The Northern Ireland Open 2018 was played at the Waterfront, Belfast, from November 12 to November 18, 2018.
Judd won the event, defeating Ronnie O’Sullivan by 9-7 in the Final
Here is the report on Worldsnooker
Sunday 18 Nov 2018 10:09PM
Judd Trump claimed his first ranking title in over a year with a stunning 9-7 defeat of Ronnie O’Sullivan in the final of the BetVictor Northern Ireland Open in Belfast.
The momentous victory for Trump is his fourth win in a final over five-time Crucible king O’Sullivan and reduces his head-to-head deficit with the …
Congratulations to Judd Trump, your Europan Masters 2017 champion!
Judd conducted a succesful defence of his title, a rather rare achievement. Well done.
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Sunday 8 Oct 2017 09:24PM
Judd Trump has defended a ranking title for the first time in his career, winning the 888sport European Masters thanks to a thrilling 9-7 defeat of Stuart Bingham in Lommel.
Trump recorded a stunning 9-8 victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan to lift the title a year ago. 12 months later and the Ace in the Pack found himself in the final once …
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Tuesday 22 Aug 2017 02:59PM
Luca Brecel won his first ranking title by beating Shaun Murphy 10-5 in the final of the Evergrande China Championship in Guangzhou.
Belgium’s 22-year-old Brecel came from 3-1 down to win nine of the last 11 frames against former World Champion Murphy, to land the silverware and top prize of £150,000.
Brecel becomes the first player from continental Europe to win a ranking title and makes his major breakthrough, having been touted for success since his early teens. This triumph – at a …
The Tour Championship is a new event on the calendar, featuring only the eight best players on the one year ranking list. This event was played in Llanduno, North Wales, from March 19 to March 24, 2019. The QF were best of 17, the SF best of 19 and the final best of 25. Grove had two players in it: Judd Trump and Neil Robertson. Both got past the first hurdle. Judd went out to Ronnie O’Sullivan, the eventual champion. Having beaten Ronnie in two finals already this season, Judd …
Only two Grove players made the trip to Gibraltar, Jack Lisowski and Oliver Lines. None got past round 2 unfortunately. Ali Carter had entered but withdrew.
All detailed results are on snooker.org
All Grove players, except Oliver Lines and Liang Wenbo have been involved in this season Championship League snooker. Three of them, Neil Robertson, Judd Trump and Jack Lisowski made it to the winners group. Jack made it to the Final but, unfortunately was then beaten by Martin Gould.
All detailed results on Wikipedia
The second leg of the Coral series was played in Preston from 4 March to 10 March 2019. Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending Champion and made a successful defence of his title as he beat Neil Robertson in the Final, by 10-4.
Neil did very little wrong but Ronnie was almost unplayable on the day. Despite the disappointment of losing Neil was happy to be part of snooker history, and a very special moment: indeed Ronnie made three centuries during the match, including a 134 in the last frame, which …
The Indian Open 2019 was played in Kerala from 27 February to 3 March 2019. The tournament was initially scheduled in 2018, last autumn, but was postponed because of terrible floods that affected the area. Luca Brecel and Neil Robertson had qualified for it back then. Neil chose to withdraw. Jack Lisowski had his first match held-over, but didn’t get past the last 64. Luca made it to the last 16. The tournament was won by Matthew Selt.
