Judd Trump - Mark King. Mark Selby - Yan Bingtao. Round 4. Luca Brecel - Fraser Patrick. Jamie Clarke - Ronnie O'Sullivan. John Higgins - Ding Junhui. Paul Deaville - Mark King. Robbie Williams - Kyren Wilson. Neil Robertson - Mark Davis. Judd Trump - Ross Muir. Day 4, Round 4. Day 4, Round 3. John Higgins - Lu Ning. Round 3. Martin Gould - Ding Junhui.
Yan Bingtao - David Gilbert. Mark Selby - Chris Wakelin. Luca Brecel - Li Hang. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh - Jamie Clarke. Shaun Murphy - Fraser Patrick. Day 3, Round 3. Zhao Xintong - Paul Deaville. Ben Woollaston - Kyren Wilson. Steven Hallworth - Judd Trump. Barry Hawkins - Robbie Williams. Ross Muir - Anthony McGill. Sunny Akani - Neil Robertson.
Fergal O'Brien - Mark Davis. Mark King - Tom Ford. Day 3, Round 2. Ronnie O'Sullivan - Michael Georgiou. Round 2. Martin O'donnell - David Gilbert. Martin Gould - Scott Donaldson. Luca Brecel - Stuart Carrington. Ding Junhui - Tian Pengfei. Joe O'connor - Shaun Murphy. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh - Peter Devlin. Li Hang - Ali Carter. Yan Bingtao - Nigel Bond. Rory McLeod - Anthony Hamilton. Fraser Patrick - Hossein Vafaei. Day 2, Round 2.
Mark Joyce - Jamie Clarke. Stephen Hendry - Chris Wakelin. Ricky Walden - Sunny Akani. John Higgins - Olivier Lines. Stuart Bingham - Fergal O'Brien. Graeme Dott - Mark Davis. Soheil Vahedi - Robbie Williams.
Judd Trump - Jimmy Robertson. Chang Bingyu - Paul Deaville. Xu Si - Zhao Xintong. Champion of Champions. Snooker owes its origins to billiards , a similar game that has been around since the 16th century. At first, the game was almost exclusively played by nobility, but in the 19th century , it found immense popularity amongst the British military in India. However, billiards was only playable by 2 persons, which prompted the development of multiplayer versions of the game.
Thus, snooker's predecessors, life pool and pyramid pool , were born, Then in , Sir Neville Chamberlain decided to combine the rules of these 2 games, giving us the earliest version of snooker.
The name of the game comes from soldierly slang: 'snooker' was a term describing inexperienced troops and first-time cadets.
Chamberlain would taunt bad players at the game by calling them ' real snookers ', mocking their inexperience, and earning the game its name. The first rules of snooker were created in , sometime after Chamberlain's merging of the 2 games. The game contains 22 coloured balls including the white cue ball ; although, sometimes less balls are used which must be pocketed in a certain order using the cue and cue ball. There are a number other balls on the table, each with different values: there are 15 red balls but 6 or 10 may be used , each worth 1 point; a yellow ball of 2 points; a green ball of 3 points; a brown ball of 4 points ; a blue ball of 5 points; a pink ball of 6 points; and a black ball of 7 points.
The order of which balls must be pocketed, called the ball ' on ' for the shot, depends on the shot: on the initial shot players must try to pocket a red ball; after pocketing a red ball, players nominate which colour they will try to pocket next.
When that colour is pocketed, it is returned to the table. If a player fails to pocket anything, their opponent will play instead. As long as there are red balls, the balls 'on' will always switch between reds and the other colours; otherwise, when all the reds are gone, the colours must be pocketed according to their value, from lowest to highest.
There are myriads of tournaments to choose from, but we will restrict ourselves to mention only the most important: the most significant of them all is the World Snooker Championship which has been going on since and has a prize pool of over 1 million pounds!
These tournaments surely make snooker an exciting live sport on TV! It's rather difficult to choose between so many magnificent players, but here are our choices: first up, there's Mark Selby; known as The Jester from Leicester , Selby is currently the world's topmost snooker player, especially since he won the UK Championship and the World Championship twice each!
Next is Stephen Hendry , who holds the record as having been the youngest world champion at 21 in and for having won the most amount of ranking tournaments, an amazing 36! Lastly, we have the one and only Ronnie O'Sullivan , or The Rocket as he is sometimes known; O'Sullivan holds the record for having been the youngest player to ever win The Masters at 19 , which he has won 7 times , and has won the UK Championship 7 times and the World Championship 5 times!
There are many glorious moments to name, but since we can only choose a few, here are our choices: it's impossible not to mention O'Sullivan's record-breaking performance in the World Championship, where O'Sullivan completed the fastest maximum break , or , in history! A is the maximum amount of points a player can achieve in a single round. O'Sullivan managed to perform this remarkable feat in an impressive 5 minutes and 20 seconds , spending about 9 seconds per shot!
That is absolutely phenomenal!
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