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After five days of tough competition and many seeds dropping out early, we are finally down to the final four in Beijing at the China Open. World no.1 John Higgins, Neil Robertson and Ali Carter were amongst the top casulties in the last two rounds.

Just like with the Masters a few months back, many top seeds fell at the very first hurdle in this year's Bank of Beijing China Open first round. This included the likes of defending champion Mark Williams, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Maguire.

With only a few weeks left to go before the World Championship all the of the players will be looking to impress and get some vital match practice in in this year's Bank of Beijing China Open. Defending champion Mark Williams will be looking to recapture his title that he won from beating local favourite Ding Junhui 10-6.

The Welsh Dragon Matthew Stevens has won a place in the Premier League later this year by beating Shaun Murphy 3-1 in the final of the Championship League Snooker winners group at Crondon Golf Park in Essex. It will be his first appearance in the event since 2002.

World Snooker Chairman Barry Hearn was in Thailand last week to announce the new PTT - EGAT Snooker World Cup 2011. The event in July in Bangkok will feature 20 teams of 2 players based on their current professional rankings.

World Snooker's governing body held an EGM today to consider a new set of articles of association. The WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) received 100 per cent support of votes in favour of the new constitutional changes.

Barry Hearn has warned players that they risk life bans if caught gambling on this year's World Championships. Last year's event was marred by claims that former champion John Higgins had agreed to lose frames for cash. He was cleared but served a disrepute ban.

At 10.45am today World Snooker announced which of the qualifiers would be joining which of the top 16 players at the draw at Wembley stadium! Some of the top ties include defending champion Neil Robertson against Judd Trump and Mark Allen v Matthew Stevens. Full updated draw is included inside.

Shaun Murphy didn't drop a single frame in either his matches today as he went on to beat Martin Gould 4-0 in tonights final for the Players Tour Championship grand finals. Murphy was also the leader on the order of merit for the PTC events so it is a deserving win for him.

After almost a fornight of matches in Sheffield we finally know which 16 players will challenge the top 16 in the Crucible at the Betfred.com World Championship! Amongst the top matches this weekend we saw Matthew Stevens, Stephen Lee and Dominic Dale all make it through as well as two debutants.