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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 …
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The 2023 Tour Championship was played in Hull, from 27 March to 2 April 2023. This tournament features only the top 8 players of the season. From Grove Mark Selby, Ding Junhui, and Ali Carter were involved.
Ali was beaten by Mark in the QFs, Mark and Ding bowed out in the semi-finals. This was an important event for Ding though: indeed he did enough to secure his spot as a seeded player in the 2023 World Championship. The event was won by Shaun Murphy.
All detailed results are available …
Ali Carter, Ding Junhui, Judd Trump, Mark Selby, Michael Holt, Neil Robertson, Tournament news »
All Grove players were involved in the 2023 WST Classic. The tournament took place at the Morningside Arena in Leicester from 16 to 22 March 2023. It was a late replacement for the canceled 2023 Turkish Masters and was played without spectators, except on the final’s day. Mark Selby, the local man won the title.
All detailed results are available on snooker.org
This was Mark Selby’s second ranking title of the season and the 22nd of his career. He beat Pang Junxu 6-2 in the final. He made three centuries during …
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Ali Carter was beaten by Shaun Murphy in the final of the 2023 Players Championship.
The tournament was played in Wolverhampton, from 20 to 26 February 2023. Neil Robertson was the defending champion but hadn’t qualified as the tournament features only the top sixteen of the season’s list. Shaun, who scored extremely heavily all week, beat Ali by 10-4.
All detailed results are available on snooker.org.
The other grove players involved, Ding Junhui, Judd Trump, and Mark Selby, all lost in round one.
After the match, Ali, who had been brilliant all week, …
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All professional members of the Grove team took part in the 2023 Welsh Open. For the first time, the tournament was played in Llandudno in North Wales. It ran from 13 to 19 February 2023. Joe Perry was the defending champion. It was won by Robert Milkins, who beat Shaun Murphy in the Final
All detailed results can be found on snooker.org
None of the Grove players had a great tournament. Mark Selby, Judd Trump and Ali Carter were all beaten in the last 32 round. Dind Junhui and Neil Robertson lost …
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Ali Carter won the 2023 German Masters at the Tempodrom in Berlin yesterday, 5 February 2023. It is Ali’s second German Masters’ title, ten years after his first. He beat Tom Ford by 10-3 in the final. Congratulations Ali.
This ended a 7 year of title drought for Ali who was obviously delighted as reported by WST. Here is what he had to say after his win:
“It is immense. My partner Lee is here with me and I was saying to her that the journey of getting to ten feels like …
Ali Carter, Ding Junhui, Judd Trump, Mark Selby, Michael Holt, Neil Robertson, Tournament news »
For once all Grove players participated in an event… the 2023 Shoot Out. the one frame shoot out event was played in Leicester from 25 to 28 January 2023. The event was won by Chris Wakelin.
From the Grove team, it was Michael Holt who got the best result: a quarter-final. Michael, of course, is a former winner of this event.
All results are available on snooker.org
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Judd Trump made it to the Final of the 2023 World Grand Prix for the second year in a row. He was beaten in a deciding frame by Mark Allen.
The tournament was played in Cheltenham for the first time and ran from 16 to 22 January 2023. Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending champion.
All detailed results are available on snooker.org
Judd was outplayed during the first session, trailing by 6-2 at the end of the afternoon, and he lost the first frame in the evening as well. But from 7-2 down he …
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The 2022 English Open was the last snooker ranking event of 2022. It was played in Brentwood, Essex, from 12 to 18 December 2022. Although Essex has been a hotbed for snooker for decades, this was actually the first ranking event ever played in the area.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion and made a good job of it, reaching the semi-finals, where he lost to the eventual Champion.
Mark Selby won the event, beating Luca Brecel by 9-6 in the Final.
This was a very important win for Mark whose last …
Ali Carter, Ding Junhui, Judd Trump, Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Tournament news »
The 2022 Scottish Open was played in Edinburgh from 28 November to 4 December 2022. Luca Brecel was the defending Champion. The event was won by Gary Wilson who beat Joe O’Connor by 9-2 in the final. It was Gary’s first ranking title and Joe’s first appearance in a ranking final.
All Grove players reached at least the last 32 round. Ding and Ali Carter lost at that stage.
Mark Selby, Judd Trump, and Neil Robertson reached the quarter-finals: Judd lost to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in the deciding frame on a respotted black! …