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Tournament draw, results & television schedule for the Haikou World Open 2012 tournament on Hainan island, China. This brand new ranking event sees snooker's top professionals compete for a £75,000 top prize in a stunning location known as 'The Hawaii of China'.

World number one Maria Catalano ended a marathon 13-hour day on the women’s snooker circuit as champion of her “special tournament” for the fourth time. Five days after turning 30, Catalano swept past Hong Kong's Jaique Ip Wan In to claim the Connie Gough Memorial trophy 2012 at Jesters Snooker Hall, Swindon.

England's Martin O'Donnell won the Snookerbacker Classic Finals 2012 yesterday, beating Irishman John Sutton 4-0 in the final at the South West Snooker Academy. Both their rewards for making it to the final include entry to the World Snooker Q School in May.

The line up of the top 16 seeds and the format for snooker's greatest tournament, the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, is now available. The event taking place once again at the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield is held this year from April 21-May 7.

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.

Tournament draw & results for the televised stages and the qualifiers of the 888真人 Welsh Open 2012. John Higgins came from 5-2 behind to beat Stephen Maguire 9-6 in the final of last year's event at the Newport Centre, Newport.

Some of my photos of the venue, players and more from the snooker PartyPoker.net German Masters 2012 at the Tempodrom in Berlin.

Ronnie O'Sullivan came from 6-3 behind to beat Stephen Maguire 9-7 at the final of the PartyPoker.net German Masters 2012 in the Tempodrom, Berlin to win his first full ranking title since the 2009 Shanghai Masters.

Live updates from the final of the PartyPoker.net German Masters 2012 final at the Tempodrom, Berlin. It's been many months since either Stephen Maguire or Ronnie O'Sullivan lifted a big trophy, who will it be tonight?

Stephen Maguire was on fire today and recorded one of the best victories of his career by beating Shaun Murphy 6-0 in the semi-final of the PartyPoker.net German Masters 2012 at the Tempodrom, Berlin.