Snooker

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has renewed its global partnership with the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) as part of ongoing efforts to guard against corruption in professional snooker.

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) and the World Confederation of Billiard Sports (WCBS) are targeting a place on the programme for the 2020 summer Olympic Games, the World Snooker governing body has announced.

The World Snooker Championship will remain at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre though 2017, the sport’s global governing body World Snooker has announced.

World Snooker has added a new event to its schedule in Lisbon to bring professional snooker to Portugal for the first time.

Snooker’s global governing body, World Snooker, has announced that its World Open tournament will not take place during the 2014-15 season.

World Snooker has announced that the 2015 edition of the Welsh Open world ranking event is to be staged in Cardiff for the first time since 2005.

The World Snooker governing body has awarded the hosting rights for its new World Grand Prix tournament to the Welsh resort of Llandudno.

With the global interest in snooker growing, how long can ‘Steel City’ Sheffield hold onto the sport’s World Championship? Elisha Chauhan finds out.

Top-level snooker will return to Preston for the first time in nine years after the sport’s global governing body chose to relocate its Players Championship Grand Final to the English city.

Snooker’s Players Championship is to be moved from Thailand due to political unrest in the south-east Asian country.

The Victorian state government has signed a two-year extension to its contract with the World Snooker governing body that will see the Australian Goldfields Open world ranking event remain in the city of Bendigo in 2014 and 2015.

World Snooker has revealed that the qualifying rounds of the 2014 China Open will be staged at the Capital Venue in Gloucester on February 17 -18.

International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) has partnered with World Snooker (WPBSA), following the recent unveiling of match-fixing in the sport.

World Snooker (WPBSA) chairman Barry Hearn has confirmed that the body will be contacting snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan for further information regarding his £20,000 match-fixing offer.

Snooker player Stephen Lee has said he is “very, very confident” that he will win his appeal against a 12-year ban handed to him by World Snooker (WPBSA) for alleged match-fixing.

Snooker player Stephen Lee has launched an appeal against his 12-year ban from the sport.

World Snooker commercial director Miles Pearce talks to Owen Evans about taking snooker to new frontiers with the inaugural Indian Open, and explains why it is the perfect platform for the sport to eventually become part of the Olympic Family.

World Snooker (WPBSA) has slapped a 12-year ban on Stephen Lee, after the former world number-five player was found guilty of match-fixing earlier this month.