What snooker can be sometimes, in numbers. From today’s match:
Breaks of 50+
Robertson: 5
Hawkins: 1
Breaks of 100+
Robertson: 2
Hawkins: 0
Final score:
Barry Hawkins 5-3 Neil Robertson
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If you look for the definition of “rollercoaster match” applied to snooker, don’t go past Robertson-Jones today. Not only the deciding frame could have gone either way at least a dozen times but also what happened in the fourth frame, where Neil scored about 60 foul points, was unbelievable… #147sf
Lots of players with a huge chance to get a very good result in Llandudno. Here is the lineup of R3, to be played today:
Jiang - R. Williams
Wu - Grace
M. Williams - Hawkins
Jak Jones - N. Robertson
Zhou - Craigie
Zhang - Higgins
Page - Lisowski
Bingham - Zhao
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An update to the h2h: 12-0.
No further comments will be released tonight.
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Today, Stuart Bingham and David Gilbert will play each other in the second round of the Welsh Open. Both experienced players, the two have met eleven times before today in bo7 or longer matches and…Bingham won all eleven meetings! I was not expecting such a one-sided h2h but here it is… #147sf
What you say is correct. I tried to draw a comparison with tennis and in doing so I specified I meant a 6-0, 6-0 win with barely a point (not a game) scored by the opponent. Such a set (6-0 without losing points) is called golden set and is an event even more rare than what happened today to Chang
It would be something like a 6-0, 6-0 win in tennis, with the opponent barely scoring a point
A stellar performance by Chang Bingyu today in the first round of the 2026 Welsh Open: the young Chinese has defeated Shaun Murphy 4-0, compiling four consecutive centuries and allowing the Magician to score only one point. Breaks of 136, 130, 130, 119 resulted in an aggregate score of 515-1! #147sf
In one hour, John Higgins and Zhao Xintong will battle for the 2026 Players Championship title: the Wizard, who defeated Judd Trump 6-5 in the SFs, plays his 3rd final of the season, looking for a career 34th ranking trophy. Zhao, winner of the World Grand Prix two weeks ago, aims for his 5th #147sf
It is of course only a theory but it is not the fist time which something like this happens around this time of the year, so there could actually be something true in it…
The Chinese New Year is claiming victims among the Chinese players at the Players Championship. After Wu Yize (3-6 to Allen) and Xiao Guodong (2-6 to Wakelin) yesterday, today also Zhou Yuelong (0-6 to Trump) and Zhang Anda (1-6 to Murphy) say goodbye to the event. Only Zhao Xintong left now… #147sf
An interesting fact: before today, Neil Robertson and John Higgins faced each other 13 times in best of 9 or longer matches and none of their meetings ever ended with a difference of more than three frames between the two players. Today, Higgins has ended the streak as he beat the Aussie 6-1 #147sf
As the winner of the Championship League will be crowned today, Mark Selby keeps taking advantage of the many matches to be played in this event to add centuries to his tally. The Jester, who is by far the top scorer of the season with 56 tons, has just scored today his career 950th century! #147sf
Absolutely
Breaks of 145, 134, 131, 130, 111, 85, 75, 75, 65 for Zhao Xintong to dominate the 2026 World Grand Prix final against Zhang Anda, which ended with a 10-6 scoreline. Zhao has simply been the strongest contender in Hong Kong this week, topping the field by far. A deserved title for him! #147sf
The two best and most consistent players of the week battle today in Berlin for the 2026 German Masters trophy: Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy will be looking to bring home respectively a 31st and 14th ranking title, with the native of Bristol looking for a first since the ‘24 UK Championship #147sf
One more century today in a 5-1 win vs McGill and Kyren Wilson reaches 39 season centuries, which means he now sits ahead of Marco Fu in the all-time list with 554 tons. The Warrior is now the 12th best all-time scorer, chasing 11th-placed Stuart Bingham, with 622 centuries #147sf #stats
A sparkling final is scheduled in Sofia, as the 2026 WSF Junior champion will be crowned today. Two bright talents are opposed: Chinese Wang Xinbo (born in 2008) and Ukrainian Mykhailo Larkov (born in 2009), who both won their SF match 4-0. A two-year main tour card is the big prize on offer #147sf
This is why I added “probably” in my tweet. You never know… 😬
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As a result, Oliver Lines gets a record which will probably never be beaten nor matched, as he found himself on the receiving side of two professional maximums scored by different players in the same day. A pretty incredible achievement, if you ask me… #147sf
So far, maximums have been flying today in the opening day of the Championship League Group 6. First, Xiao Guodong scored his third career 147 in his 2-3 defeat against Oliver Lines. Then, just a few hours later, Wu Yize compiled another 147, his first professional ever, again against Lines #147sf
As expected, Kyren Wilson pulled out from the Championship League, where he was scheduled to play today in the morning; instead of the Masters title winner, Oliver Lines is competing, with Xiao Guodong, Wu Yize, Neil Robertson, Stuart Bingham, Zhao Xintong and Mark Selby completing the lineup #147sf
It is a first career Masters title for Kyren Wilson, after two lost finals (2018, 2025). The Warrior beats John Higgins 10-6 at the end of a match he always firmly had in his hands, courtesy of too many unforced errors from his opponent. Did anyone say Championship League tomorrow, Kyren? #147sf
End of the first session at the Ally Pally with the momentum all on Kyren Wilson’s side at the moment. After a few scrappy frames the Warrior raised the level to score two centuries in the last two frames and lead John Higgins 5-3 as the two go into a two-hour break before the evening session #147sf
True, but I feel Wilson has to start as the strong favourite anyway today
I was honestly positively surprised by Higgins’s performance yesterday, as I wouldn’t have bet a penny on him to win against Trump. Even after that semifinal, I can’t see him winning in a best of 19 against Wilson, so for me Kyren takes it. Still, I would love to see Higgins win today.
A lovely Sunday of snooker kicks off in an hour, as John Higgins and Kyren Wilson battle for the 2026 Masters title. The Wizard plays his 19th Triple Crown career final, hoping to bring home a 3rd Masters trophy. The Warrior looks for his first one after losing twice in the final (‘18, ‘25) #147sf
What a match we had today at the Ally Pally, guys! John Higgins comes back from 0-3, 2-4, 3-5 down to beat Judd Trump 6-5 after five hours of fierce battle. An epic match which went the Wizard’s way, who ends his losing streak against the number one in the world in great style! #147sf #snooker
An interesting stat about today’s first SF: Judd Trump has defeated John Higgins in the last eleven (!!) times the two have played a best of 11 (or longer) match. The last win for the Scottish legend dates back to the quarterfinals of the 2018 WC, when he managed to top Trump 13-12 #147sf
