With several high profile players being absent from this year’s NSW State Women’s Snooker Championship, the opportunity was there for one of the lesser-known players to rise and enjoy some time in the spotlight.
Read MoreThe 2014 South Pacific Snooker Championship was held at Club Marconi on the 13th and 14th of September this month. Congratulations to Adrian Ridley from Victoria for winning the prestigious event over Kurt Dunham (also Victorian) with a close final being 4-3.
Read MoreThis year’s Championships were held at Hornsby RSL Club on the 30/31 Aug, the club has fantastic facilities and one of the best Snooker Rooms in Sydney.
Read MoreThis years titles were held at BLACKTOWN WORKERS CLUB for the third year running. The event attracted 53 entries 10 more than last year and 19 more from 2012. It was a huge program to get through, to enable what would most certainly be a very high quality final to be showcased.
Read MoreThe 2014 NSW State Women’s “Minor” Snooker Championship has been won by promising cueist Annette Clifford from Coffs Harbour. Clifford’s victory has matched the effort of her fellow Club Coffs player Judy White-Singh, who won the same title last year.
Read MoreNSW’s Glen Wilkinson has successfully defended his Australian Masters Snooker title and also continued a remarkable run of success in this particular event, with victory in the 2014 Championship now extending his Australian Masters titles to 5 in just the 9 year history of the event.
Read MoreThe minors this year were held again at Toukley RSL on the central coast, a wonderful spot for a weekend away and a spot of snooker. The club itself is very comfortable and friendly and of course has excellent facilities.
Read MoreThe final, which was played as a best of 7 between Joe Minici and Roger Farebrother, proved to be a great quality final. With more than 30 people watching the final, Club Marconi's Roger Farebrother proved too strong for a Joe. Joe was not playing as well all weekend, but showed his class the whole tournament to scrape through his matches. Eventually Roger taking out the title with a 4-1 win. Roger also claimed the tournament high break with a lovely 81.
20 players contested the belated 2013 NSW State Billiard titles held at Mounties for the first time in the event history. We had a great attendance of spectators on the Saturday and the great facilities and number of tables at Mount Pritchard allowed players to have plenty of match play.
Read MoreThis year’s event was held at Bathurst Panthers Leagues Club. The current U18 state champions (Scott Middleton) home town and as there were a few other locals’ interested and not much response from any Sydney players registered. There were four locals’ players, another player from Lithgow and one from the Central Coast.
Read MoreThe NSW Doubles was held on the 30th of November at one of our most supportive clubs that being Club Marconi.
Read MoreVictorian player Adrian “The Riddler” Ridley has continued his good recent displays with an impressive 4-2 victory over Shawn Budd in this year’s Pot Black Open Snooker which was staged on 9th – 10th November at Blacktown Workers Club.
Read MoreCongratulations to Joe Minici the winner of the 2013 NSW state 6-red snooker championships held at central coast leagues club this past weekend.
Read MoreJessica Woods has certainly been the form player of women’s snooker in 2013 and has continued on her winning way with a successful title defence of the NSW State Women’s Snooker Championship.
Read MoreBen Judge the Australian number 18 before this event from Western Australia has recorded a 4-2 victory over Hassan Kerde the Australian number 7 from NSW in the Final of the 2013 Club Marconi South Pacific Open Snooker.
Read MoreThe NSW Minor billiards was held at Mingara this weekend and last years Minor Snooker winner Adam Fitzgerald has backed it up by winning the billiards this year. The weekend was enjoyed by all who played with some tuff round robin matches going right to the wire. With a small field of 12 runners the matches were extended to 11/2 hrs in round robin and the players loved the table time. The top players from each group advanced to the Semi-finals on Sunday with semi 2hrs and final 3hrs.
Read MoreCoffs Harbour visitor Judy White-Singh, affectionately known by her friends as “Miss Cue”, has emerged as the worthy winner of the 2013 NSW State Women’s “Minor” Snooker Championship. Runner-up in this event in 2011, Judy was the form player this year and thoroughly deserved her victory. The Championship was staged on 15th – 16th June at Club Toukley RSL.
Read MoreTrev’s overall knowledge, mentoring ability and friendship will undoubtedly be missed by many people. But perhaps we can honour his memory best by remembering his calm and confident manner; his pride and professionalism; his dedication and commitment - and hold these qualities up as the perfect role model for the next generation of snooker and billiards referees to aspire to.
Read MoreOver 40 players travelled to Toukley to compete in this year’s minor grade championships. Once again these championships attracted a very strong field with many favourites for the title. The last 16 saw two of these favourites suffer defeat as both Luke Hough and Rob Elsley lost their matches on a deciding frame to Danny Townsend and Ali Gangi respectively.
Read MoreA strong field of over 40 contested this year’s NSW Snooker Championships held at Blacktown workers Club. This is the first year of a 3 year $6000 partnership with the BSANSW and Blacktown workers. Blacktown workers once again provided a fantastic venue and local support with the snooker room filled each day with spectators who witnessed some fantastic snooker which was evident by this year’s break board with 3 centuries and other large breaks produced.
Read MoreWelcome to the official website for NSW Snooker and Billiards which is an affiliate of the Australian Billiards and Snooker Council. Here you will find all the latest news and results as well as other information about venues, coaching, membership and development programs.
The inaugural Australian Billiards and Snooker Council (ABSC) Level 1 Snooker Coaching Certification Course, accredited by the WPBSA, was held in Sydney on 25–26 July, with nine prospective coaches from across New South Wales taking part.
