Billiards
Kyren Wilson and the 18-Month Gap: When Trophies Don't Count2026-10-24Kyren Wilson stands at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, chalk still smeared on...
Mark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: Eight Events Missed and a Silence Without an Answer2026-09-17When the Shenzhen Open organisers published the official draw, my eye went...
Mark Allen withdraws from the Shenzhen Open for the eighth time this season: the Crucible black and the price of silence2026-09-17On October 4, 2026, the Shenzhen Open draw closed its qualifying rounds witho...
The World Billiards Map: Four Rulebooks, Four Ecosystems, One Misused Word2026-09-16A January evening in Sheffield. I sat in row eleven of the Crucible Theatre,...
Mark Allen and the Ten Silent Weeks: When the Ranking List Is the Invisible Contract2026-10-26Frame 33, April 2026, on the longest table in snooker. Mark Allen straightens...
BilliardsMark Allen and the Ten Silent Weeks: When the Ranking List Is the Invisible ContractFrame 33, April 2026, on the longest table in snooker. Mark Allen straightens...
BilliardsKyren Wilson and the 18-Month Gap: When Trophies Don't CountKyren Wilson stands at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, chalk still smeared on...
BilliardsThorpe and the Chaotic Philippines Open Rack: When Data Cannot Name a ChampionIn Billy Thorpe's last three matches at the Philippines Open, his pot success...
BilliardsBusuttil, Malta and the Q Tour Ticket: When Patience Beats the Glare of SeventeenSofia, the Princess Hotel, last weekend. Table one, the fourth frame of the Q...
BilliardsSofia 2026: Forty-Five Cues, Eleven Nations and Eight Separate KingdomsThe hall in Sofia barely breathed as Niall Pollitt bent over his cue. Only th...
BilliardsSaigon's Billiards Season: Duong Quoc Hoang, the 10-Ball World Championship, and Silences Measured in NumbersThere is a moment no camera captures. It is when the cue ball stops in the...
BilliardsUSD 80,000, Nearly 200 Cueists and One Called Shot: Duong Quoc Hoang on Home Soil at Phu Tho ArenaAt a corner of the Phu Tho Arena stands, I noted a small detail that most...
BilliardsTwo Deciders in Leicester: Crowley, Brown and the Gap Between a Break of 94 and a Ticket to NanjingLeicester, International Championship qualifiers. Leone Crowley led Kyren...
BilliardsJimmy White, 64, Wins Thriller in International Championship Qualifying: What the Short Format ConcealsAt the International Championship qualifiers, the scoreboard showed 6-5. Jimm...
Billiards2026 International Championship Qualifiers: Jimmy White 6-5 Matthew Stevens and the Price of Best-of-11The eleventh frame did not begin with a fine break. It began with an error....
BilliardsLeicester, Two Deciders and the Limits of Short Format: What Really Happened When Crowley and Brown FellAt the eleventh frame in Leicester, when the table was nearly bare and only t...
BilliardsJimmy White 6-5 Matthew Stevens: Short Format and the Money Question at the 2026 International Championship QualifiersThe deciding frame of Jimmy White against Matthew Stevens lasted under twenty...
BilliardsOne Word, Five Sports: The Discipline-Identification Gap in Billiards CoverageIn Ho Chi Minh City, a reader sees the word “billiards” in a headline and...
Billiards2026 International Championship Qualifiers: The Held-Over Structure, the O'Sullivan Gap and Snooker's New Power MapOn September 17, 2026, at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester, three tables will ...
BilliardsMark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: Eight Events Missed and a Silence Without an AnswerWhen the Shenzhen Open organisers published the official draw, my eye went...
BilliardsMark Allen withdraws from the Shenzhen Open for the eighth time this season: the Crucible black and the price of silenceOn October 4, 2026, the Shenzhen Open draw closed its qualifying rounds witho...
BilliardsSofia 2026 and the Hidden Map of Disability Snooker: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Brackets and a Cup for the Non-QualifiersOpening: Forty Seconds Before the Ball Is Struck I once stood in a practice...
BilliardsThe Strata of Vietnamese Billiards: Excavating a Sport That Has Never Been MeasuredAt 11:40 p.m. in a billiards club on Lach Tray Street, Hai Phong, I sat in th...
BilliardsFour Sports Under One Name: Why 'Billiards' Is a Misleading Keyword for British AudiencesOn table four of a club in Liverpool, a player ran 62 points, then stopped,...
BilliardsThe World Billiards Map: Four Rulebooks, Four Ecosystems, One Misused WordA January evening in Sheffield. I sat in row eleven of the Crucible Theatre,...
BilliardsSofia 2026: 45 Entries and Eight Brackets — European Disability Snooker Redraws Its Own MapMonday evening, while reviewing the PPDA data tables of two V.League teams fo...
BilliardsVietnamese Billiards and the Numbers That Never Make the ScoreboardOne evening in April, at a billiards club on Pham Ngoc Thach Street in Binh...
BilliardsKyren Wilson and the 18-Month Gap: When Trophies Don't CountKyren Wilson stands at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, chalk still smeared on...
BilliardsThorpe and the Chaotic Philippines Open Rack: When Data Cannot Name a ChampionIn Billy Thorpe's last three matches at the Philippines Open, his pot success...
BilliardsBusuttil, Malta and the Q Tour Ticket: When Patience Beats the Glare of SeventeenSofia, the Princess Hotel, last weekend. Table one, the fourth frame of the Q...
BilliardsSofia 2026: Forty-Five Cues, Eleven Nations and Eight Separate KingdomsThe hall in Sofia barely breathed as Niall Pollitt bent over his cue. Only th...
BilliardsSaigon's Billiards Season: Duong Quoc Hoang, the 10-Ball World Championship, and Silences Measured in NumbersThere is a moment no camera captures. It is when the cue ball stops in the...
BilliardsUSD 80,000, Nearly 200 Cueists and One Called Shot: Duong Quoc Hoang on Home Soil at Phu Tho ArenaAt a corner of the Phu Tho Arena stands, I noted a small detail that most...
BilliardsTwo Deciders in Leicester: Crowley, Brown and the Gap Between a Break of 94 and a Ticket to NanjingLeicester, International Championship qualifiers. Leone Crowley led Kyren...
BilliardsJimmy White, 64, Wins Thriller in International Championship Qualifying: What the Short Format ConcealsAt the International Championship qualifiers, the scoreboard showed 6-5. Jimm...
Billiards2026 International Championship Qualifiers: Jimmy White 6-5 Matthew Stevens and the Price of Best-of-11The eleventh frame did not begin with a fine break. It began with an error....
BilliardsLeicester, Two Deciders and the Limits of Short Format: What Really Happened When Crowley and Brown FellAt the eleventh frame in Leicester, when the table was nearly bare and only t...
BilliardsJimmy White 6-5 Matthew Stevens: Short Format and the Money Question at the 2026 International Championship QualifiersThe deciding frame of Jimmy White against Matthew Stevens lasted under twenty...
BilliardsOne Word, Five Sports: The Discipline-Identification Gap in Billiards CoverageIn Ho Chi Minh City, a reader sees the word “billiards” in a headline and...
Billiards2026 International Championship Qualifiers: The Held-Over Structure, the O'Sullivan Gap and Snooker's New Power MapOn September 17, 2026, at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester, three tables will ...
BilliardsMark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: Eight Events Missed and a Silence Without an AnswerWhen the Shenzhen Open organisers published the official draw, my eye went...
BilliardsMark Allen withdraws from the Shenzhen Open for the eighth time this season: the Crucible black and the price of silenceOn October 4, 2026, the Shenzhen Open draw closed its qualifying rounds witho...
BilliardsSofia 2026 and the Hidden Map of Disability Snooker: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Brackets and a Cup for the Non-QualifiersOpening: Forty Seconds Before the Ball Is Struck I once stood in a practice...
BilliardsThe Strata of Vietnamese Billiards: Excavating a Sport That Has Never Been MeasuredAt 11:40 p.m. in a billiards club on Lach Tray Street, Hai Phong, I sat in th...
BilliardsFour Sports Under One Name: Why 'Billiards' Is a Misleading Keyword for British AudiencesOn table four of a club in Liverpool, a player ran 62 points, then stopped,...
BilliardsThe World Billiards Map: Four Rulebooks, Four Ecosystems, One Misused WordA January evening in Sheffield. I sat in row eleven of the Crucible Theatre,...
BilliardsSofia 2026: 45 Entries and Eight Brackets — European Disability Snooker Redraws Its Own MapMonday evening, while reviewing the PPDA data tables of two V.League teams fo...
BilliardsVietnamese Billiards and the Numbers That Never Make the ScoreboardOne evening in April, at a billiards club on Pham Ngoc Thach Street in Binh...
