Former Crucible quarter-finalist Ryan Day has had the worst couple of years of his professional career lately having slid sharpy down the rankings. But from 6-9 down to Ding Junhui he came back to win the match 10-9 at the World Snooker Championship.

Three-times world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan got over the first hurdle at the World Snooker Championship today as he beat China Open champion Peter Ebdon 10-4 to reach the last 16. Judd Trump & Ding Junhui also started their Crucible campaigns today.

China's Xiao Gudong will be in his first ever professional quarter-final match tomorrow as he managed to triumph 4-3 over UK champion Judd Trump in the Betfair PTC Grand Finals at Galway. What made it even more impressive is that Xiao was playing wiith a broken hand.

Chinese no.1 Ding Junhui won his first major title in over a year today by beating Mark Selby 9-6 in a high quality final of the snooker 888真人 Welsh Open 2012 at the Newport Centre, Newport.

The draw & schedule for The Masters 2012 at Alexandra Palace, London has been announced. Ding Junhui won last year's event, beating Marco Fu 10-4 in the final and faces a tough first round test in the form of crowd favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Ding Junhui followed on from his 3rd pro 147 on Thursday he went on make another one today against young amateur James Cahill in PTC11. The next day Jamie Cope made a maximum break, this time against Kurt Maflin.

Former UK Champions Matthew Stevens and Ding Junhui both made 147 breaks in PTC12 today. This comes just weeks after Mike Dunn, David Gray and Ricky Walden made maximum breaks themselves in pro competition. These are the 82nd and 83rd officially recognised 147's in pro snooker history.

Quarter-final news from the williamhill.com snooker UK Championship 2011 at the Barbican Centre, York. Qualifier Ricky Walden shocked former UK champion Shaun Murphy to reach the semis and controversial Mark Allen progresses with a final frame decider win over Marco Fu.

Round-up and results of all the last 16 matches at the williamhill.com snooker UK Championship 2011. Plenty of shocks happened as defending champion John Higgins lost to Stephen Maguire and qualifier Marco Fu beat Mark Selby.

Ronnie 'The Rocket' O'Sullivan's dominance in the PartyCasino.com Premier League Snooker continued today as he won a record 10th title in a 7-1 victory over Ding Junhui in the final at Poters Leisure Resort at Hopton on Sea.

After beating the Republic of Ireland and then favourites Wales in the semi-finals, the Chinese team of Ding Junhui & Liang Wenbo went one better by beating Northern Ireland 4-2 in the final of the PTT-EGAT Snooker World Cup in Thailand.

After fourteen days of top snooker we finally know the identity of one of the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship 2011 finalists. It's only the 21-year-old qualifier from Bristol; Judd Trump! He came through in the high-quality semi-final 17-15 over Masters champion Ding Junhui.

Masters champion Ding Junhui has accepted a fine of £2,000 for failing to notify Tournament Officials of a medical condition that resulted in him not competing to the best of his ability in Euro Players Tour Championship event three earlier this season.

Its the last day and the final of the Ladbrokes Mobile Masters 2011 and I was in attendance once again. The two players to make it through to the final were China's Ding Junhui and Hong Kong's Marco Fu who had both been playing spectacular this week.

After seven days of competition and seven top seeds loosing in the first round we are finally left with the two best players of the week in the final. Competing for their inaugural title of Ladbrokes Mobile Masters champion and the grand prize of £150,000 is China's Ding Junhui against Hong Kong's Marco Fu.