The 2025 World Grand Prix was played in Hong Kong for the first time, from 4 to 9 March 2025, Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending champion but didn’t compete despite actually qualifying.
All Grove players, except Luca Brecel, had qualified.
Ding was the first to exit the tournament, beaten 4-3 by Xu Si in the round of 32.
Wu Yize won his opening match, but went of by 4-2 to Stuart Bingham, the eventual runner-up, and it was Bingham again who beat Mark Selby by 5-4 in the quarter-finals.
Neil Robertson beat Mark Allen …
The 2025 World Open was played in Yushan, China from 23rd of February to 1st of March, 2025. Judd Trump was the defending champion. The event was won by John Higgins who defeated Joe O’Connor by 10-6 in the final.
It wasn’t a great tournament for the Grove players.
Neil Robertson had entered the event but withdrew before his first match.
Mark Selby went out in the round of 64, beaten 5-2 by Liu Hongyu.
Wu Yize was beaten by David Lilley (5-4) in the round of 32.
Ding reached the last 16, where he …
The 2025 German Masters was played from 27 January to 2 February 2025 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. All Grove players qualified for the main event at the venue except Ding who didn’t enter the draw. Judd Trump was the defending Champion. The event was won by Kyren Wilson who beat Barry Hawkins by 10-9 in the Final.
Luca Brecel and Mark Selby lost in the round of 32, to Anthony Mc Gill and Elliot Slessor respectively. Wu Yize and Neil Robertson reached the quarter-finals where they lost to Barry …
The 2025 Masters was played in Alexandra Palace, London, from 12 to 19 January 2025. Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending Champion but he didn’t play in the tournament. The event was won by Shaun Murphy who beat Kyren Wilson in the Final.
Four of the Grove players were involved in the tournament: Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Luca Brecel and Ding Juhui. All four won their opening match, but lost in the quarter-finals.
All the detailed results are available on snoker.org.
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 …
