Snooker News

Updates, results and photos live from Day 7 of the williamhill.com Snooker UK Championship 2011 at the Barbican Centre, York. It's semi-final time as Judd Trump faces Neil Robertson today for a place in the final. Neither of the left-handers has reached the final of this event before.

Quarter-final news from the williamhill.com snooker UK Championship 2011 at the Barbican Centre, York. Qualifier Ricky Walden shocked former UK champion Shaun Murphy to reach the semis and controversial Mark Allen progresses with a final frame decider win over Marco Fu.

Round-up and results of all the last 16 matches at the williamhill.com snooker UK Championship 2011. Plenty of shocks happened as defending champion John Higgins lost to Stephen Maguire and qualifier Marco Fu beat Mark Selby.

Mark Allen the world no.14 from Northern Ireland recently spoke out against Barry Hearn and how he has changed snooker in recent years. In an interview with On Q Promotions he speaks more about the chairman, the state of snooker, life on the circuit and more.

17-year-old Hossein Vafaei Ayouri from Iran beat former professional Lee Walker from Wales 10-9 in the thrilling final of the IBSF Snooker World Championship 2011 in Bangalore, India. If he gets accepted he will become the first Iranian on the professional tour.

Tournament draw, results, match schedule and century breaks from the williamhill.com Snooker UK Championship 2011 at the Barbican Centre, York. John Higgins returns to defend his title which he won beating Mark Williams 10-9 in last year's final.

Michael 'Hitman' Holt has defeated Dominic 'The Spaceman' Dale 4-2 in tonight's Players Tour Championship Event 10 (PTC 10) final at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield. It is Holt's second PTC title in two seasons.

World Snooker announced today that William Hill one of the UK's largest bookmakers will be the title sponsor for the UK Championship at the Barbican Centre starting in York this Saturday. Therefor the tournament it will be known as the williamhill.com UK Championship.

Ricky Walden the 2008 Shanghai Masters champion realised another ambition of his today by making his first professional 147 break in his 4-1 win over Gareth Allen in PTC10. It comes just one day after David Gray made his 147 and is the 81th 147 in pro snooker history.

Draw, results and century breaks from Players Tour Championship Event 10 (PTC10 2011) at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield. Top ties of the first round include Jimmy White v Peter Ebdon, Anthony McGill v Kacper Filipiak and young Sam Baird takes on Ronnie O'Sullivan.