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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.

Young Welsh prospect Jamie Jones recorded the best win of his career yesterday, coming from 3-1 behind to beat world champion John Higgins 4-3 at the Betfair PTC Grand Finals in Galway, Ireland.

Jack Lisowski who was voted last seasons rookie of the year has not had the best run of form recently but he showed yesterday that the rot was over as he beat Barry Hawkins 4-3 in the first round of the Betfair PTC Grand Finals in Galway, Ireland.

Scotland's Michael Leslie has won a place on the World Snooker professional tour for the next two seasons by winning the European Billiards & Snooker Association (EBSA) Under-21 Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria with a 6-2 victory over Shane Castle in the final.

Northern Ireland's Mark Allen won his first ranking title today after emphatically beating Stephen Lee 10-1 in the final of the Haikou World Open 2012 on Hainan Island, China.

Exclusive interview with German EuroSport commentator Rolf Kalb. He is also the master of ceremonies at German snooker events and is widely regarded as the sports biggest fan and supporter in the country.