Judd Trump won the 2019 International Championship, beating Shaun Murphy by 10-3 in the Final. The tournament was played in Daqing, China, from August 4, 2019 to August 11, 2019. It was Judd’s first “outing” since he won the World Championship last May. In reaching the quarter finals, he also secured the Number 1 spot in the rankings. He’s now World Champion and World n°1. Congratulations Judd!
Here are excerpts from the report by Worldsnooker

Sunday 11 Aug 2019 01:46PM
World Champion Judd Trump produced a scintillating display to beat Shaun Murphy 10-3 …

The Riga Masters 2019 was played in Riga Arena, Riga, Latvia from 26 to 28 July 2019.
All grove players were involved except Judd Trump and Liang Wenbo. Neil Robertson was the defending champion. However he didn’t get the opportunity to defend his title: an unlikely combination of events meant that his flight to Riga was canceled whilst no other flight could get him there in time for his first match.
Ali Carter, Luca Brecel and Oliver Lines lost in the first round at the main venue (last 64). Jack Lisowski reached …

The professional non-ranking team snooker tournament took place from 24 to 30 June 2019 at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, China.Three Grove players were involved: Jack Lisowski played for England alongside Kyren Wilson, Luca Brecel played for Belgium with Ben Mertens – a 14 years old amateur – and Liang Wenbo played for China B partnered by Zhou Yuelong. All three teams made it to the knock-out stage. Belgium lost in the quarter-finals, England was beaten by China B in the semi-finals, and China B lost …

The first sets of 2019/20 qualifiers were played in Ponds Forge (Sheffield) over the last week.
Neil Robertson is the defending champion at the Riga Masters and as such his first round match is held over. He will face Robert Milkins at the venue. The other Grove players who entered the event are Ali Carter, Luca Brecel, Jack Lisowski and Oliver Lines. All of them won their last 128 match and will be in Riga.
All the results for the Riga Masters Qualifiers are on snooker.org
All the Grove players entered the International …

Congratulations to Judd, the 2019 World Snooker Champion!
He beat John Higgins by 18-9 in a record-breaking final. Judd made seven centuries in that final, more than in any other Crucible final. The match had 11 centuries in total, more than any other match. And this World Championship saw 100 centuries made, the 100th bu the new champion. Also, by winning the World Championship, Judd became only the 11th player in history to hold the “Triple Crown” – UK Championship (2011),, Masters (2019), World Championship (2019)

Neil Robertson and Ali Carter reached …

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 …

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.