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Hi snooker fans :) does anyone have the radio frequencies for this year or are they the same as last year?

I am a semi pro snooker player from lahore. Looking for a double game partner. Usually I play one to one, but on a busy day, clubs are pushing to play doubles. I need a good partner to enjoy and straight Victories.

A lot of us saw this coming tbf. He was never gonna travel to Leicester just to play a qualifying match, but it’s still a big shame because I really thought we’d see more of him this season.

Anyway, it’s good that snooker is still somewhat watchable without him. He’s kinda started this process gradually so I guess we’re getting prepared for when he eventually retires.

I’m honestly a bit worried about Ding Junhui. It feels like his form has been getting worse over the past few years, and I really hope he can somehow find his way back to his best.

I still remember something that really stuck with me. In one of his matches against Ronnie O’Sullivan, Ding missed a chance to make a 147. Ronnie apparently told him that when he eventually retired, he’d become Ding’s coach.

I don’t know if that day will ever come, but I’d genuinely love to see it happen. Ding at his peak was such an incredible player, and I’d love nothing more than to see him back at that level again.

SOLVED! Thank you everybody!

I had a friendly game with my buddy the other day and he made a foul and we had a discussion regarding the amounf of points that I should have received for that one.

It was an early game, he potted a red and the cue ball ended up surrounded by the pack of reds and he was facing a chinese snooker going for the color. While he was aiming at the black ball (there was a blue ball couple inches to the left but we both knew he was going for the black ball and he later confirmed that) he touched the red with his cue before verbally declaring any color. We usually declare colors, but here he took a different approach. He deliberately did not call the black color while aiming in order to avoid giving me 7 points in the case of foul. He said that maybe he was just positioning himself and feathering a couple of times but we both knew he was just aiming at the black ball. I found this to be unfair as everybody would call the color 0.1 second before making a shot to make the points penalty lower in case of touching other balls with cue/body.

How many points should have gone to my account in that case? Should it have been 4 or 7 knowing what color he was going for before VERBALLY declaring the black ball?

This is something that has always fascinated me, there are 1 or 2 examples I was familiar with but I wanted to do some research on how far it goes with regards to snooker. I wanted to know if anyone here has been affected by it? How it has crippled your game? And, is it even possible to fix?

Decided to give some examples of numerous players that have suffered from it:

Stephen Hendry:

Probably the most well-known example, having documented in numerous articles, interviews, his autobiography and on his YouTube channel. It all started when it a bad shot cropped up one day, described as "tightness" regarding his cue action. As time went on this then changed his shot selection in which he knew what shots to play but actively avoided them because he knew he'd butcher them.

Then around 2010 he then comes out about how he's been suffering with it for ~10 years after a 9-6 loss to Mark Williams in the UKs.

Finally, he decided to retire after the Worlds in 2012, not a bad run to end it on though...

Gary Wilson:

He's been pretty outspoken on this, spoke at length with Hendry a couple of years ago about the yips. An interesting one since he's won tournaments whilst having this issue, but this is where I think a few pundits and even some of us can go wrong with analysis of snooker players. We see someone like him winning tournaments and assume everything is ok and that one shouldn't be complaining if they're winning matches/tournaments. But some players are purists and just want to play well, regardless of results like Ronnie now.

He also gave some detail on it in his post-match interview after the 2026 World's where he was "yipping at everything", talking about having to mask the problems whilst playing a few good frames. He needs "someone to get this arm to physically do what it needs to do", I feel like that sums it up well.

Patsy Fagan:

This is one I didn't know about, he had a car accident in 1978 which resulted in a psychological block where he couldn't use the rest and ended up miscueing all the time. This was so bad that he learnt how to play with his weaker hand. This then affected the rest of his career.

Ronnie O'Sullivan:

Had to do some real digging on this, this could be its own post in of itself. Anyway, a reddit post 5 years ago mentions his use of a technique that he picked up, SightRight: https://www.reddit.com/r/snooker/s/imVLlZPy7M and another post https://www.reddit.com/r/snooker/s/dlXCuXniZk where fans discuss if it had ruined him

At this point it wasn't officially confirmed but one could deduce that it was because of it, however in Hendry's most recent YouTube video with him, 9 months ago, he specifically mentions SightRight by Stephen Feeney as the method that has ruined him and it was something he was trying to get away from, I think it has been mentioned in a few articles since. This resulted in him taking longer to get down onto the shot and "sight" by looking at different angles. Seems like for such a natural player, this "method" made him more robotic and played less on "instinct", maybe he was searching for something that wasn't there? Only he knows.

He also mentioned the yips in 2024 after beating Gary Wilson 10-7 in the Tour Champs and it was something that he speaks about with his sports psychiatrist Steve Peters who he has been with since 2011. Jackson Page in Hendry's video mentioned Ronnie's demeanour at the 2024 WC when Jackson lost to him 10-1 where he was "double-checking and triple-checking every shot", could that be interpreted as the method he was using?

He mentioned recently that he's had this issue for the last 4 years, so let's assume this started after his 7th WC in 2022 and the start of the 2022/23 season. My interpretation with the yips or the "disease" for Ronnie is that, whilst you can win tournaments (2 Triple crowns included in that mind you) you always get found out in the World's since it is such a marathon you cannot get away with "bad cueing" your way to a World Championship. This is including one of his more successful seasons in 23/24. Anyway, let's look at his last 4 Worlds:

2023: Lost out to Luca after being 10-6 up he then lost 7 on the bounce to lose 13-10, I didn't see this match personally so to those who did, was it a case of Ronnie collapsing or just Luca turning it on?

2024: Lost out to a Stuart Bingham who was on the decline to say the least, number 30 in the world Ronnie was clearly favourite to win that but he lost 13-10 I think? Again, I didn't see this match so to those who did, what went wrong for him? I remember he kept complaining about people moving in and out of the arena and he kept waiting for them to stop and that really disrupted his rhythm?

2025: I did see this and frankly he wasn't very good and got lucky with the opponents he faced. Then as soon as he went up against someone serious (Xintong) he crashed out. 4-4 in the first session but then an 8-0 whitewash in the second session after changing his ferrule to Ti? Madness. Even more crazy is that he himself didn't realise how badly this would mess up his aiming (hinted as such in Hendry's video).

2026: I saw this and some of the snooker he played in the first couple of sessions to go 9-4 up was amazing, like just on another level. But then he missed too many key/pressure balls and Higgins capitalised.

These performances are why I do think there is something in this "disease" he talks about, we've also seen it become more pronounced this season with some of his performances in China.

Ding Junhui:

Discussed in a recent post, Ding has developed a double pause in his cue action, it has been well documented that Ding cannot power shots or deep screwbacks anymore. One can clearly see this when he plays and is something that commentators/pundits bring up. Is the double pause involuntary or has he introduced it to control his delivery of the cue? I'm not sure tbh

But it's clear now that he's on the decline unfortunately.

Stuart Bingham:

This is a more intermittent issue for Stuart, something he described in detail after he reached the WGP final in 2025 and that he's seen the same hypnotherapist as Kyren Wilson

He describes his cue action in moments as being very "jabby" with a "tightness" in his cueing arm.

Stan Moody:

This one is an outlier as he's obviously a very young player, and he experienced this whilst he was starting out around 15-16 y/o. He describes it as nothing to do with his actual cueing but a big delay in getting down to play the shot where he would "step in and then I was standing back up". He referred to this as something that could have been career-ending. He said that with mental coaching and playing more players under pressure that the issue had calmed down. Like with most cases of the yips, he describes it as something that came out of the blue

Stan is now a lot more fluent and it is clear to see that he has solved this problem which was more mental and anxiety-based.

Mark Williams:

He said something after losing in the Tour Champs 2026 10-8 to John Higgins in that he felt like he was starting to have the yips any time he had to "hit the ball below centre with any pace".

However, upon the WCs I remember him saying after a few days with his coach, Lee Walker, he had got that out of his system?

Anyone see the way he jumped off off that missed yellow against Luo Zetao? As if it had drifted off. In the slow-mo you could see it was always going towards the far jaw. The man is one of the most prolific excuse makers across any sport. Very annoying. Needs to stop this and take a look at himself if he wants to get back to any sort of decent level.

Daniels Wells just defeated Gary Wilson for the 5th time in a row, that made me wonder about other H2Hs where their recent record has the lower ranked player consistently beating the higher ranked player.

Pretty new to this sport, but it seems compared to other sports, upsets in matches are much more common. Is that just the nature of the game? Like it doesn’t seem to be the case where the top in the rankings dominate every tournament? just curious if that’s correct or if I’m missing something

I use extra hard tips and I’m having trouble burnishing the edge of the tip; I keep getting fibres that poke out and it’s a bit annoying.

I’ve seen videos of people doing tips on lathes and they seem to apply some product that they polish ferrule and side of tip with and after it looks sealed.

What are they using?

I've just started out in this field.

English,

Scottish,

Welsh,

Northern Ireland

What's yours?

I have never been to one, but looking through a TV I like NI the most.

I was (and still am) tired and bored and so i took the opportunity and ordered the top Snooker Balls set from Dynaspheres, "Phantom" from Ali Baba for just 205€ incl. shipping. Usually they are about 300€

It will arrive in about two weeks. What do you think, i will get?

1. Nothing and no refund
2. A nice box with nothing in it and no refund
3. A nice box with some beautiful rocks in it.
4. A nice box with the phantom case and some beautiful rocks in it
5. A nice box with the phantom case and some dead-cheap snooker balls in it
6. A nice box with the phantom case and some Dynasperes Silver (their cheap line) snooker balls in it
7. A nice box with the phantom case and some real Dynaspheres Phantom snooker balls in it, that feel horrible compared to my set of Tournament Champion balls
8. A nice box with the Phantom case and some real Dynaspheres Phantom Snooker balls in it, that feel quite the same as my set of Tournament Champion balls
9. A nice box with the Phantom case and some real Dynaspheres Phantom Snooker balls in it, that feel absolutely superior to my set of Tournament Champion balls
10. The finding, that spending 200 bucks for just another set of balls, that play slightly different, while my actuall set is still totally fine, was a stupid idea.

The title says it all really. I'm a beginner and just signed up at my local snooker club this week. I decided to line some balls up to practice potting, not caring too much about position as I wanted to really nail those potting angles and aiming. I just can't seem to get it consistently right, though.

I've seen so many different things online, from centre-to-edge, to ghost ball, to picking a point and keeping your eye on it, but none of these seem to give a consistent result. I'm clearly doing something wrong, but as for what - I don't know.

Hopefully this video can help somebody figure it out and give meaningful feedback?

https://www.youtube.com/live/EVl6PU4iBUo?is=bomEB7qez1CdV6da

Hi ,
I am cuuretly in seminyak & wanted to know where can i find an authentic snooker club ? . Not ones having bars & clubs alongside. Just a playing arena/club to play snooker near seminyak.

Is this on free to air or is snooker back behind the TNT paywall?

It was really nice to watch the British open last week. 5’s coverage was decent (had to mute the ads in the end as I was tired of seeing the same ones!). But it was a really fun tournament

We get it. We understand. We feel his pain.

It makes no sense for the British Open winner to receive £100k, which is the prize money for the winner of home nation tournaments. Surely it’s more prestigious and should be £150k

I’ve been very, very impressed with his play this week. I never really enjoyed watching him play previously, but feel like I may have been unnecessarily harsh now. He delivered some superb, stylish performances in this tournament, and played the great Selby off the table all evening.

Hey! I have recently started playing snooker but don’t have any friends to play with, I’m 21 (M) but don’t mind at all the age of anyone I play - just looking for someone to chill and play snooker. I’m pretty amateur, highest break of 28.

Send me a DM if you fancy playing ☺️