Happy birthday to the Grove’s Sean O’Sullivan who turns 16 on Thursday 29 April!

Sean has had another great season which ended with Sean reaching the final 8 of Riley’s Search For A Star competition.

A fantastic performance by the Grove’s Zhang Anda on his first appearance at the final stages of a major tournament – but sadly not enough to oust his opponent, seven-time champion Stephen Hendry.
Anda showed why he is one of the game’s hottest prospects after getting within a few shots of a phenomenal upset. World number 10 Hendry had been cruising at the start of this clash leading 4-0 but Anda’s fearless battling qualities, witnessed in his four qualifying matches last month, got him back to 5-4 down for Sunday’s …

The Grove’s Zhang Anda will take on seven-times World Champion Stephen Hendry in the first round of the World Snooker Championships, on 17 April.
Anda told us: “I am very excited about the draw. Stephen Hendry is a snooker legend and it will be a dream and an honour to play him at the World Championships. I hope I will be able to give him a good game and I am looking forward to it very much.”
Ronnie O’Sullivan will meet another Chinese player, Liang Wenbo, in his first round …

Congratulations to the Grove’s Zhang Anda, who is currently on his best-ever run at the World Championship Qualifiers. Anda followed up wins against Craig Steadman, former World Champion John Parrott and Andrew Higginson with a 10-8 victory against provisional world no 16 Ricky Walden in the final qualifying round to reach the final stages at the Crucible to cap his very first year on the Main Tour.

Anda, who turned 18 on Christmas Day, was already celebrating as his win against world no 32 Andrew Higginson on Friday guaranteed his …

Grove player Matt Selt is 25 today and he’s coming to the end of his best ever season.
A professional since 2006, Matt made an important breakthrough at the start of the season by reaching the last 32 of the Shanghai Masters. He achieved this by winning four qualifying matches, ending with a 5-4 victory over Steve Davis. In Shanghai he faced John Higgins, losing 5-2. At the next qualifying event, for the Grand Prix, he recovered from 0-4 against Jordan Brown to win 5-4 and then went on to …