The Acuerate Antwerp Open 2012 started on October 17, 2012 with the amateur qualifying rounds. The pros came in action from Friday, October 19, 2012, on. Judd Trump, the defending champion, aimed at retaining his title, but the man he beat in what was branded the “best ‘best of 7′ ever”, Ronnie O’ Sullivan, will not compete in Belgium this time. Unfortunately he couldn’t as our Jack beat him in the last 64. As we reached the final day Jack was the last Grove man standing but he …

Ronnie, Jack and Wenbo have landed in Poland (with Django of course but there is no table tennis involved, so …) The event was well attended, as well over 1000 people watched Ronnie beat Ali by 2-0 in the final match of the day, with a 137 in the process. The players got a fantastic reception, from the organisers, the sponsors and the public and each of them produced some great entertaining snooker as the (long) day unfolded on the table. Big thank you to everyone involved and in particular to Marcin Nitschke, the main man behind the organisation and a great player.

Look here at the pictures taken on and off the table in Zielona Gora

The UK PTC Event 3, is played in Gloucester, and the pros started their campaign on September 7, 2012. All Grove players entered, including Ronnie O’Sullivan who made his return to competition on Saturday, but it was short lived as he lost his last 128 match. On Friday, Judd and Sleepy won their three matches and booked their spot to the Final day, they were joined by Stuart on Saturday. None of them got past the last 16 though Read about the team matches here

The well established Paul Hunter Classic ran fro August 23 to August 27 2012, in Fürth, Germany. All Grove players, except for Ronnie, were there. The pros started their campaign on Friday, August 25 and Jack featured in the very first match at 9:30 local time. Unfortunately none of them went past the last 32. Read here how the team fared

The International Championship will be played in China end October and will have a format similar to the UK Championship as well as huge prize money. The qualifiers were played in Sheffield from August 19th to August 23, 2012 and all matches will be best of 11.
Chen Zhe, Jack Lisowski, Li Yan, Liang Wenbo, Yu Delu and Zhang Anda were be in action but none of them managed to qualify for the main event.

The qualifiers stages for the Gdynia Open, the Polish EPTC 2012 event, were held in the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, from August 16, 2012 to August 18, 2012. The pros started their qualifying campaign on Friday, August 17th.
All Grove players except for Ronnie were in action. Stuart and Wenbo booked their trip to Poland.

The UK PTC event 2 started on Wednesday, 8th of August 2012, in the SWSA in Gloucester. The pros started their campaign on Friday, 10th of August. All Grove boys, except for Ronnie, were in action. Judd and Wenbo reached the last 16. Read about it here

The Shanghai Masters 2012 qualifiers ran from Tuesday, 24th of July 2012, till Friday 27th of July 2012, in the Academy in Sheffield. Chen Zhe, Jack Lisowski, Li Yan, Liang Wenbo, Yu Delu and Zhang Anda all tried to make it to the venue in September, and all lost their first match. Read more here

The first UK Players Tour Championship Event of the season ran from July 18 till July 22 in South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester. Chen Zhe, Jack Lisowski, Judd Trump, Liang Wenbo, Li Yan, Stuart Bingham and Yu Delu were all competing. Jack beat Judd 4-3 in the quarters and Mark Williams by the same score in the semis. The final against Stephen Maguire went to the last black in the decider, but Jack couldn’t win it … but he will win one, soon, playing like that.

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Unfortunately, it was disappointment for Stuart Bingham as he failed to defend his title in Bendigo, Australia. Jack Lisowski and Liang Wenbo were also competing in the Goldfields Australian Open that ran from 9th of July till 15th of July 2012. All three lost in the last 32. Liang Wenbo lost a close match against Matthew Stevens. Jack lost to the on form Mark Davis, the recently crowned six-reds World Champion. Stuart lost to Matthew Selt in a tense and dour match that went to a the decider and …