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Gloucester's Robert Milkins has made the second maximum 147 break of his career today in his Betfred.com World Snooker Championship qualifying match against China's Xiao Guodong at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield.

Draw, results & format from the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship Qualifiers 2012 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Will former champions Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis & Ken Doherty be joining the top 16 at the televised stages in the Crucible?

Top referee Michaela Tabb was given the news recently that she will be officiating her second Betfred.com World Snooker Championship final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield next month.

Peter Ebdon has won his ninth ranking title and his first since capturing the same tournament in 2009 by winning the China Open again, this time as a qualifier, beating favourite Stephen Maguire 10-9 in a high quality final in Beijing.

Tournament preview of the 2012 China Open by Daniel Clarke. Will Judd Trump be able to recapture the title in Beijing which he emphatically won last year beating Mark Selby 10-8 in the final?

The South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester, a World Snooker Centre of excellence, has been selected to stage all four UK Players Tour Championship events next season. This comes after the academy successfully hosted two of the events last year and were well received by the players & fans.

Stephen Lee won his first major professional title in 6 years today by beating Neil Robertson 4-0 in the final of the Betfair PTC Grand Finals at the Bailey Allen Hall in Galway. This comes just a week after losing to Mark Allen in the World Open final.

Masters champion Neil Robertson and World Open finalist Stephen Lee will contest tonight's final at the Betfair PTC Grand Finals in Galway. Both produced impressive snooker in their semi-finals to dispatch opponents Stephen Maguire and Andrew Higginson.

Scotland's Stephen Maguire has been experiencing a resurgence of form in recent months and performed strongly today once again to beat Ricky Walden 4-3 in the quarter-finals of the Betfair PTC Grand Finals in Galway.

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.