The International Championship 2017 was played in Daqing, China, from October 29th 2017 to November 5th 2017 and was won by Mark Selby.
It was a bit of a mixed bag for the Grove players. Ali and Judd reached the QF, Jack and Neil lost in the last 16 whilst Oliver was beaten in the last 32. Ali had a particularly hard draw as he beat Stephen Maguire and Shaun Murphy before losing to Martin Gould who reached the Final.
All detailed results are on Cuetracker.

The English Open 201 was played in Barnsley, from 16 to 22 October 2017, with all Grove players involved. Two of them, Jack and Neil reached the quarter finals. Neil lost by 5-3 to Anthony McGill whilst Jack was beaten 5-2 by Ronnie O’Sullivan, the eventual Champion. Jack had defeated Judd in the previous round in a deciding frame. Ali and Oliver were unfortunate to meet in the first round (last 128) and it’s Ali who prevailed. However Ali didn’t go past the next round where he lost to a …

All Grove players were in Wigan last week (11-13 October 2017) trying to qualify for the reborn Shanghai Masters 2017. Four of them won their last 128 match: Judd, Luca and Jack went through comfortably whilst Ali was pushed all the way by the young talent that is Sam Craigie. Oliver and Neil lost and won’t be in Shanghai. Oliver was beaten by Ian Preece in a deciding frame. Neil, who really could do with some results as he might miss the Masters come January, was extremely unlucky to suffer …

Preston Guild Hall – 26-29 September 2017
All Grove players won their qualifying last 128 match and will be in Daqing for the main event in just over a month from now.
Detailed results are on Cuetracker.

The World Open 2017 was played in Yushan, China, from September 18 to September 24, 2017.
It was Luca again would fared the better of the Grove team as he reached the semi finals where he lost by 6-4 to Ding Junhui the eventual Champion. This means that Luca is now firmly installed in the top 16 as he reaches his highest ranking to date as n° 12. Neil reached the last 16; he lost in the deciding frame to Mark Allen after a hard fought, high quality match. Jack …

The televison stages were held from September 12th 2017 to September 16th 2017, with only Luca and Jack involved. Both lost in the last 64.
All detailed results are on cuetracker as usual

The Paul Hunter Classic 2017 was played in the Stadthalle, Fürth, Germany from 25 to 27 August 2017. It wasn’t a great event for team Grove. Judd and Neil had not entered. Oliver fell at first hurdle, and Jack and Luca lost in the last 64. All results are available on cuetracker.
There was also a ranking Ladies competition, running from 23 to 27 August 2017. Emma Parker was involved and here are her results. She won a match, but lost to Bex and Manon who are vastly experienced players. …

Last 10 days saw three sets of qualifiers played in Preston. The first set was to qualify for the Indian Open. Jack Lisowski and Luca Brecel won their qualifying match, whilst Oliver Lines lost to Jan Preece and Neil Robertson withdrew. Judd had not entered. Next came the qualifiers for the European Masters. Judd, being the defending champion, has his match held over to the venue, in Lommel, Belgium. Luca as well has his match held over, being Belgium’s n°1 player. Jack, Neil and Oliver all won their last 128 …

The Riga Master 2017 was played in Riga Arena, Riga, Latvia, over 3 days, from June 23 to 25, 2017. The tournament was won by Ryan Day and this was Ryan’s first title. Neil was the defending champion, but, alas, his defence was short lived. He did win his last 128 held-oiver match, but lost in the first round proper to German rookie Lukas Kleckers. Luca and Oliver reached the last 32, whilst Jack played well overall, beating Lukas Kleckers in the last 32 and reached the last 16 where …

The players had to win one match to qualify for the China Championship 2017, to be played mid August, in China. This qualifying round was played in Preston from 3 to 6 June 2017. All Grove players were involved, and all of them except Jack won their match and are China bound. All detailed results can be found on Cuetracker as usual