Former snooker star Silvino Francisco – who won the 1985 British Open – has died aged 78. The South African was a widely ...

FORMER snooker star Silvino Francisco has died aged 78. The South African reached world No10 and won the British Open in 1985 ...

South Africa's 1980s snooker favourite Silvino Francisco has died at the age of 78. He beat Alex Higgins en route to becoming ...

Silvino Francisco, a South African snooker player who was prominent in the 1980s and was later jailed for three years for ...

Luca Brecel has been told by Stephen Hendry that his snooker career has “fallen off a cliff”, with the seven-time world ...

World No 22 Jack Lisowski says after his 5-4 defeat to O’Sullivan at the Macau Masters on Wednesday that he has ‘open mind’ ...

SNOOKER wonderkid Joe Shannon is set to make his World Tour debut on Wednesday. The 14-year-old has been drawn to take on world No23 Robert Milkins at the Snooker Shoot Out in Leicester. The ...

Ali Carter beat Joshua Thomond 5-4, with Antoni Kowalski and Ben Woollaston also winning their afternoon qualifiers. The ...

ITV also boasts free-to-air rights in the shape of the Tour Championship, Players Championship, British Open and more, while Eurosport boasts widespread snooker rights for the majority of ...

Snooker's biggest names have descended on ... In September, O'Sullivan also withdrew from the British Open and like this occasion, also made that decision hours before he was due to play.

He said: "Joe is a very impressive young man, let alone a snooker player. "He's had a lot of success already, he works very hard, he is really dedicated. Obviously he has so much to learn." ...