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The qualifying draw and results for this year's inaugural Australian Goldfields Open ranking event at the Star Academy, Sheffield. The event runs from the 18th-22nd of June and the 16 players to make it through will reach the televised stages in Bendigo, Australia next month.

'The Rocket' Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the first pro event of the season and his first event to carry ranking points since he took the 2009 Shanghai Masters title by beating 'Gentleman' Joe Perry 4-0 in the final of PTC1 at the Star Academy, Sheffield.

Full results from PTC1 at the Star Snooker Academy, Sheffield which runs from June 18-22. The 113 amateur players face two rounds of pre-qualifying matches to join the 93 professionals in the 3rd round on Monday.

Top amateur from last year's PTC events; Daniel Wells was already guarenteed a spot on the professional main tour by coming top of the Welsh rankings this year, but it didn't hold him back in the European Championships and he beat Ireland's Vincent Muldoon 7-4 to take this years men's title.

Today it was announced by World Snooker that the format for the matches at the UK Championship and it's qualfiiers would be reduced. All qualifying matches at the South West Snooker Academy and up to and including the quarter finals at the Barbican, York will be best of 11 frames with the semi's at 17 and the final at 19 frames.

The draw for this season's first event; Players Tour Championship Event 1 (PTC1) at the World Snooker Academy was released today. Top ties include a repeat of the 1994 Thailand Open final between Steve Davis and James Wattana and Belgium prodigy Luca Brecel faces English pro Anthony Hamilton.

The draw for the inaugural PTT-EGAT Snooker World Cup 2011 in Bangkok was revealed today by World Snooker. Top seed Wales is represented by world no.1 Mark Williams and Matthew Stevens faces still competition in the form of Ireland's team; Ken Doherty and Fergal O'Brien in their group.

A few days ago at the Pink Ribbon tournament at the South West Snooker Academy I got the chance to interview the four-times and current world champion, UK Champion and Welsh Open champion, the Wizard of Wishaw; John Higgins! He gives his opinions on Scottish snooker, the best way to improve your game and much more.

The 2011 European Billiards and Snooker Association Snooker Championship is now underway in Sofia, Bulgaria. The winner of the mens event will receive the final free place on the professional main tour for the 2011/2012 season.

Last year's defending champion and EPTC6 champion Michael Holt spoke to me at this year's Pink Ribbon tournament at the South West Snooker Academy. How does he feel his career has been so far? And what is his top tip for aspiring snooker players? Read on to find out!