Luca Brecel hasn’t shown much of his best since winning the World Championship in May 2023, but reminded everyone how brilliant a player he is at the 2024 Riyadh Season Championship in Saudi Arabia, where he reached the final. The event was won by Mark Allen.
The event was played from December,18 to December, 20. Only the top ten ranked players were invited.This means that, from Grove, only Mark Selby, Ding Junhui and Luca Brecel took part.
All the detailed results are available on snooker.org.
Ding had to play a local qualifier …
Ding Junhui has won the 2024 International Championship, beating Chris Wakelin by 10-7 in the Final. The event was played in Nanjing, China, from 3 to 10 November 2024. Zhang Anda was the defending Champion.
Here is the report by WST:
DING CLAIMS NANJING GLORY
Ding Junhui secured the 15th ranking title of his illustrious career with a 10-7 defeat of Chris Wakelin in the final of the International Championship in Nanjing.
Chinese sporting icon Ding has now triumphed in seven ranking events in his native country, but this week’s victory is a first …
Neil Robertson ended a 2 years title drought by winning the 2024 English Open, beating Wu Yize by 9-7 in an “all Grove” final.
The tournament was played in Brentwood, England from 16 to 22 September 2024. All grove players were involved. All the detailed results are on snooker.org.
This was a particularly emotional win for Neil as his father was present and for the first time watched him win “live”.
Here is what Neil had to say after his win as reported by WST:“I haven’t won for a couple of years …
The 2023 World Snooker Championship was a particularly happy one for the Grove players. Luca Brecel won it, beating Mark Selby in the final. Mark was trying to win a fifth World Title but ran across an inspired Luca Brecel. Luca – who is back at the Grove – won the final by 18-15 to become the first World Snooker Champion from mainland Europe. For Mark though, getting this far after battling severe mental health issues in recent years was a great achievement and something extremely positive. Mark was full …
Neil Robertson beat Judd Trump by 10-9 in the Final of the 2020 UK Championship, winning the Triple Crown event for the third time. He had previously won this prestigious event in 2013 and 2015. Only three players have more UK crowns: Ronnie O’Sullivan (7, Steve Davis (6)), and Stephen Hendry (7). This is Neil’s 19th ranking title, bringing him on par with Judd Trump, and one better than Mark Selby.
The tournament was held in Milton Keynes, under social distancing rules. It started on November 23th and finished on …
The 2024 Soot-out was played in Leicester from 4 to 7 December 2024.
From Grove, Mark Selby, Wu Yize and Neil Robertson were involved. Wu and Mark reached the semi-finals.
All detailed results are available on snooker.org
The 2024 UK Championship was played from 23 Nov to 1 Dec 2024 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. The defending champion was Ronnie O’Sullivan. The event was won by Judd Trump who beat Barry Hawkins by 10-8 in the final.
All the detailed results are available on snooker.org
It wasn’t a great event for the Grove players.
Ding and Wu Yize reached the round of 16, beaten by Shaun Murphy and Mark Allen respectively. It’s worth noting though that Wu had to win three matches to get that far: He …
Mark Selby and Neil Robertson were the only two Grove players involved in the 2024 Champion of Champions. The tournament was held in Bolton, England from 11 to 17 November 2024. Mark Allen was the defending Champion.
The event was won by Mark Williams who beat Xiao Guodong by 10-7 in the final.
Mark Selby was beaten by Xiao Guodong in his Group final. the score was 6-5 to Xiao.
Neil Robertson reached the semi-finals, where he lost by 6-2 to the eventual champion, Mark Williams.
All the results are available on snooker.org.
The 2024 Wuhan Open was played from October 6 to October 12, 2024 at the China Optics Valley Convention & Exhibition Centre, Wuhan, China.
Judd Trump was the defending champion. The event was won by Xiao Guodong, who beat Si Jiahui in the final.
All the Grove players were involved but none of them faired particularly well.
Mark Selby and Luca Brecel failed to qualify for the main venue stage. Neil Robertson was beaten by Jackson Page (5-1) in the firstb round proper.
Wu Yize and Ding Junhui both exited the tournament in …
The inaugural Saudi Arabia Masters was played in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 30th of August to 7th of September, in the Green Hall, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The price money of offer was the highest ever in snooker, bar the World Championship. The event was played from start to finish at the main venue which is how it should always be. The event was won by Judd Trump who narrowly beat Mark Williams by 10-9 in the final. The decider went to the last black!
All Grove players had entered the …
