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Royal London Wathes Grand Prix, formerly known as the LG Cup Championships held at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen.
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  Stephen Hendry - AirandSpace.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hendry has won the World Snooker Championships seven times, a record for the modern era, and is thus regarded by many as the greatest player of all time.
Hendry first won the World Professional Snooker Championship in 1990 at the age of 21, becoming the youngest player ever to win the event.
Hendry holds several snooker records: He has earned more prize money than any other player (about £7 million); he has scored the most 147s (eight times), and is the only player to have scored a 147 in a major final, a feat he has achieved three times.
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 Malta Definition / Malta Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Republic of Malta is a small and densely populated island nation in southern EuropeSouthern Europe is a region of Europe.
Malta is a small and densely populated island nation in southern.
Malta is governed by the 1964 constitution, as revised in 1974; it is a neutral country.
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 European Open (snooker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The European Open was a professional snooker tournament.
The German Open, Irish Open and Malta Grand Prix were the ranking tournaments in Europe for the next few years, before the European Open was revived for 2001/02.
The European Open was superseded by the Malta Cup for the 2004/05 season.
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 European Open (snooker): Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The European Open is a professional snooker (snooker: A form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball) tournament.
It is one of the eight ranking tournaments (ranking tournaments: the snooker world rankings are a system of ranking professional snooker players....
[follow hyperlink for more...]) and Malta Grand Prix (Malta Grand Prix: the malta grand prix was a professional snooker tournament which ran from the 1994/95...
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 Highest snooker break   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In snooker, a break is the total score achieved by a player in a single visit to the table.
However, if a player commits a foul stroke with all 15 reds still on the table, and snookers the opponent, the opponent may choose to hit any coloured ball as a free ball which is scored as a red.
In that match Drago was foul snookered and chose the brown as the free ball, to score one point.
www.infobadger.com /articles/Highest_snooker_break   (331 words)

  
 AZBilliards.com - Snooker with Alan Morris
Welcome to snooker on AZBilliards.com brought to you by English professional snooker player Alan Morris, and in association with SnookerUSA.com, the official website of the United States Snooker Association, the governing body of snooker in the the United States.
The 32-year-old Scotsman, whose last title victory came when he won the Premier Snooker League in May 2000, said: "People will say that it's only a small tournament but when you haven't won for as long as this, just to be in the winner's circle again is a good feeling.
Williams was heavily beaten in the final in Malta last year by Ken Doherty, and has since suffered three other crushing defeats in finals.
www.azbilliards.com /snooker/2000-01/01maltagp.html   (740 words)

  
 The Global Snooker Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although he managed to reach the last sixteen of the Grand Prix, his other results in that first season were only modest and he could only achieve a ranking of 122.
He was runner-up in the Grand Prix and the Malta Grand Prix, and after a failure in the UK, took the German Open title for a second time.
In 1999/2000 he took a second Grand Prix title as well as the Welsh Open for the first time and semi-finals came in both the world and UK championships.
www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk /files/Players/Global_Europe/Global_Scotland/p_profile040.htm   (890 words)

  
 Stephen Hendry - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
Stephen Hendry (born January 13, 1969) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Hendry first won the World Professional Snooker Championship in 1990, at the age of 21, and went on to dominate the game in the 1990s.
Hendry holds several snooker records: He has earned more prize money than any other player; he has scored the most 147s (eight times), and is the only player to have scored a 147 in a major final, a feat he has achieved three times.
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 Malta Grand Prix (snooker): Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Malta Grand Prix was a professional snooker (snooker: A form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball) tournament which ran from the 1994/95 season to 2000/2001, sponsored by Rothmans.
In 2000 it was the European ranking tournament (ranking tournament: the snooker world rankings are a system of ranking professional snooker players....
Tony Drago (Tony Drago: tony drago (born september 22, 1965) is a professional snooker player from malta...
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 AllSports (tm)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Embassy World Snooker Championship is incomparably the most prestigious snooker tournament in the world, and is one of the UK's major annual sporting occasions staged at the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
Ireland's Ken Doherty was dealt a double blow as for the second year in a row he lost 10 frames to 8 in the final, this time to the 22-year-old Welshman, Matthew Stevens, and missed out on a Honda NSX car as he failed to pocket an easy final fl for a maximum 147 break.
The International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) is the world’s official governing body for non-professional snooker, and organizes the IBSF World Snooker Championship which is annually staged in a member country.
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 John Parrott - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
John Parrott (born 11 May, 1964) is an English professional snooker player.
He won the Embassy World Snooker Championship in 1991.
He commentates on snooker for the BBC, often partnered with Steve Davis, and was one of the team captains on A Question Of Sport.
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 Snooker 2002
The 1997/98 season was a bit of an anti-climax as Doherty struggled to find the form that had won him the world title.
He defeated John Higgins 7-5 in the final of the Malta Grand Prix and reached the semi-finals of the Thailand Masters, losing 5-4 to Hendry.
But true to form, Doherty put the miss behind him and went straight on to lift the Rothmans Malta Grand Prix title, beating Mark Williams 9-3 in the final.
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 The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Snooker Champion and former BBC 'Question of Sport' Captain
He is a lifelong Everton fan and a keen follower of horse racing.
Nowadays he combines his snooker career with a highly successful television one.
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 OnlineSnooker - John Parrott
The popular Liverpudlian is also a member of the elite 147 club, his maximum break came in the 1992 Matchroom League.
A keen fan of all sports, Parrott was originally brought to play snooker by his father when it was too wet for bowls.
John presented the prizes to the winner of the John Parrott Snooker Handicap for two-year-olds.
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 Snooker world ranking tournaments - TheBestLinks.com - World Snooker Championship, UK Championship (snooker), LG Cup ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Snooker world ranking tournaments - TheBestLinks.com - World Snooker Championship, UK Championship (snooker), LG Cup (snooker), Professional Players Tournament (snooker),...
Snooker world ranking tournaments, Snooker, World Snooker Championship, UK...
This is a list of ranking professional snooker tournaments.
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 Hendry, Stephen - Review - The Legendary Stephen Henry!!
Stephen Henry has acheived so much in the game of Snooker and is widely regarded as the greatest ever snooker player, An acollade that I agree with, here are his Career Acheivements.
Snooker Grand Prix 1987, 1990, 1991, 1995, He has won the Snooker grand prix a total of four times Including a twice in a row defence of the title.
Stephen Hendry is a born winner and the Snooker titles mean so much to him, he tries harder than anyone else I have seen playing snooker, he is not only incredibly skilled at Snooker he also works at it and I Fail to remember the number of times he has comeback from almost defeat.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /discussion/hendry-stephen/1000844   (799 words)

  
 SnookerUSA.com - World Of Snooker: 2001 European Open Preview   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The beautiful Meditarranean island nation of Malta once again hosts a World Snooker Main Tour ranking event, as the world's top snooker players head there to compete in the 2001 European Open which is the 2001-02 World Snooker Main Tour season's third ranking event.
The last time Malta played host to a ranking event was in 2000 when the 1997 Embassy World Champion Ken Doherty took the Rothmans Malta Grand Prix.
Whatever the result of the tournament, the trip to Malta is always one of the highlights of the Main Tour season.
www.snookerusa.com /menu/worldofsnooker/01-02wsmaintour/01europeanopen   (527 words)

  
 AllSports (tm) Rothmans Malta Grand Prix 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ireland's world ranked number 7, Ken Doherty, banished all his disappointment from this year's Benson and Hedges Masters finals as he won his first world ranking tournament since the 1997 World Championship, in lifting the Rothmans Malta Grand Prix 2000 title at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta on February 27.
Doherty certainly enjoys playing in Malta, having won and been runner-up when the Grand Prix was staged as an invitation tournament.
Williams was ahead only once when he took the opening frame, and on this form it was hard to believe he is well clear of John Higgins and Stephen Hendry at the top of the rankings.
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 Snooker - Pro News
Stephen Hendry, who was eliminated in the quarter final stage by John Parrott, made the highest break of the tournament, 130 points.
This break goes into the history book of snooker because it was Hendry's 400th century in professional competition.
This is his second UK title; he won the first at the age of 17, four years ago.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Totesport Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1984 Rothmans started sponsoring the tournament, changed its name to the Rothmans Grand Prix, and moved its venue to the Hexagon Theatre, Reading.
The tournament is currently played at the Preston Guild Hall in October, at the start of the snooker season.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Totesport Grand Prix; all previous versions may be viewed here.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Totesport_Grand_Prix   (373 words)

  
 Pool/Snooker/Billiards Articles
The snooker robot roject, way ahead of its time, is a giant step ahead for both cue sorts as well as robotics.
The Snooker Simulation, written by Peter Grongo, is a good game if you have limited processing power on your computer, but would still like to enjoy the thrills of a good, smart simulation.
The latest version of Quicksnooker V.1.16 is a delightful combination of the earlier snooker package with many improvements packed in.
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 snookershark.com |   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Wizard of Wishaw worked his snooker spell over all of his opponents in 1998 when he went all the way to the world title.
He was runner-up in both the Malta Grand Prix and the Charity Challenge.
He was runner-up in the Grand Prix, the Malta Grand Prix, he then won the German Open title for a second time.
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 The Global Snooker Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One of the best moment's of Grech's professional career came as long ago as the 1989 Dubai Desert Classic when he beat Tony Knowles and Gary Wilkinson, both Top 16 players at the time, before losing out 5-4 to Alex Higgins in the quarters.
Grech is one of the few cue sports all-rounders and has won the IBSF World Billiards title and been a finalist in the snooker.
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www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk /files/Players/Global_Europe/Global_Malta/malta_joe_grech.htm   (203 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Other Sport... | Snooker | Parrott out to find form in Malta
White ended 11 years without a trophy at the 2004 Players Championship, while Davis reached the UK Championship final at 48 six weeks ago.
Liverpudlian Parrott, 41, has great memories of Malta having won the both the 1996 European Open and the 1993 Malta Grand Prix on the island.
Higgins, who also won the Grand Prix in October, launches his challenge for a third trophy this season against Gloucester's Rob Milkins.
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 Online Snooker Betting Guide - Free Snooker Bets
Snooker came to the fore in the seventies and eighties and will always be remembered for that great Snooker World Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor who won in a magical game on the final fl.
Snooker betting is mainly concentrated around the ranking events such as the Grand Prix; the British Open, the UK Championship, the Welsh Open, Malta Cup, Irish Masters and the World Championship.
A couple of additional snooker events that also attract good betting interest are the Premier League and the Masters.
www.betting-directory.com /sport/snooker-betting.php   (282 words)

  
 Snooker Statistics and facts
The first World Snooker Championship was held at Camkin’s Hall in Birmingham in 1927 while, since 1977, the event has been staged at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
There was fantastic snooker, a magnificent comeback and a dramatic finale that left everybody – players, officials, fans, the media and the BBC TV crew – totally drained.
Snooker is second only to football in terms of television popularity with viewers in the UK.
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 Snookerclub - Snooker & Pool News
Higgins set a new record for a ranking event of four centuries in a row to move 8-2 ahead and also posted a new mark of 494 unanswered points.
Scotland's John Higgins put on a record-breaking display as he blew away Ronnie O'Sullivan 9-2 in the final of the Preston Grand Prix.
Snooker is celebrating a new star in Shaun Murphy as he became the first qualifier to win the Embassy World Championship for 26 years.
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 Professional News 1999-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The £295,000 Rothmans Grand Prix broke off in Malta on Sunday 20th February, with Benson and Hedges Masters winner Matthew Stevens taking on Michael Holt in the last 16, with a possible match against Stephen Hendry in the quarter-finals.
Ken Doherty continued his good run after reaching the Final of the Benson and Hedges Grand Prix recently by knocking out the talented, but enigmatic Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-2.
A 43 break was enough to win frame 12 and for KEN DOHERTY to run out a 9-3 winner and gain his third ever ranking title.
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