Mark Selby

Day 5 at the Williamhill.com UK Championship and the final match of the last 16 was a thriller as Mark Davis beat John Higgins 6-5 despite the Scot making his 7th pro maximum break. Belgium's Luca Brecel also won another match, beating Mark King 6-4.

Day 1 of the williamhill.com snooker UK Championship in York and for the second successive BBC tournament Ryan Day has beaten Ding Junhui in the first round and Mark Selby battled through against another Welshman, Michael White.

Veterans Steve Davis & Tony Drago were amongst the big names to win three matches and reach the last 16 of the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy (UKPTC4) at the South West Snooker Academy yesterday.

Mark Allen has won the second ranking title of his career at the Antwerp Open (European Tour Event 3) beating Mark Selby 4-1 & making three consecutive centuries in the final at the Lotto Arena, Antwerp.

World no.1 Mark Selby successfully defended his title at the Paul Hunter Classic (Betfair European Tour Event One) in Furth by beating a resurgent Joe Swail 4-1 in the final.

Former Shanghai Masters finalist Jamie Burnett pulled off the shock result of the Australian Goldfields Open 2012 so far by beating world no.1 Mark Selby 5-3 today at day 3 of the event.

UK Champion Judd Trump managed to come from behind to beat Dominic Dale 10-7 fighting off food poisoning and Mark Selby became the eighth seed to drop out the tournament after suffering a surprise 10-3 defeat at the hands of Barry Hawkins.

Another massive shock at the World Snooker Championship as the world no.19 and former Welsh Open finalist Andrew Higginson has defeated Stephen Lee 10-6 to reach the last 16 of the tournament for the first time in his career.

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.