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Betfred.com World Snooker Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was named Player Of The Year at the annual World Snooker Awards in London on Thursday. Other winners included 17-year-old Luca Brecel who won Rookie Of The Year.

Ronnie O'Sullivan has won his fourth World Snooker Championship title at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, beating a resurgent Ali Carter 18-11 in the final. O'Sullivan lead from the first session and never looked back on his way to lifting the trophy.

Ronnie O'Sullivan started the third session of this year's Betfred.com World Snooker Championship final in style by winning the first four frames and eventually finishing 15-10 in the afternoon, leaving Ali Carter with it all to do tonight.

Ronnie O'Sullivan has taken a vital 10-7 lead over Ali Carter at the end of the second session tonight in the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship final at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

The South West Snooker Academy has announced details for the 2012 Pink Ribbon Pro Am, the biggest charity snooker tournament in the world. The amateur qualifying days will be 6-8 June with the 32 seeded professionals joining the tournament on 9-10 June.

Here are some of the reactions from the players and referees on the news that seven-times world champion and legend Stephen Hendry has retired from professional snooker.

Seven-times world champion & 36-times ranking event winner Stephen Hendry announced his retirement from professional snooker today after his 13-2 defeat against Stephen Maguire at this year's World Snooker Championship.

Ali Carter has produced some of the best snooker of his career to come from 12-9 behind to beat Judd Trump 13-12 in an thrilling deciding frame at the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship. Matthew Stevens also progressed with a 13-11 win over Barry Hawkins.

World Snooker in partnership with broadcaster CCTV have announced a new ranking event in China, the International Championship. Running from October 28 to November 4 it will be the biggest Chinese tournament on the calendar with total prize money of £125,000.

Mark Williams fought off Chinese qualifier Liu Chuang to come through 10-6 and become the last man through to the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship second round. On the other side Stephen Maguire leads Joe Perry 5-3 with three centuries between them.