Mark Selby is challenging a prevailing wisdom that crops up more than any other single viewpoint about the relative standard of today’s game, according to Mark Williams.
Read MoreWILLIAMS: SELBY PROVING HE WOULD SHINE IN ANY ERA
O'SULLIVAN v SELBY - A UK FINAL TO SAVOUR
In the end the Betway UK Championship has got one of the finals that many neutrals would have wanted in the shape of Ronnie O’Sullivan against Mark Selby.
Read MoreSTRICTLY SNOOKERED AS SELBY CLIMAX IS CUT BY BBC
The UK Championship quarter-final between Mark Selby and John Higgins delivered on every level – and also sparked a new storm over how live snooker is covered on the BBC.
Read MoreSELBY LOOKING THE PART AS WORLD No1
Considering the fuss made of Andy Murray for making it to No1 in tennis it must surely be worth doffing the cap in the direction of Mark Selby.
Read MoreSELBY OUTFOXES DING FOR A SECOND WORLD TITLE
What a night it was for Mark Selby at the Crucible on Monday, standing in the arena parading not only the famous trophy but a Leicester City flag on the night the Foxes won the Premier League.
Read MoreAFTER DRAMATIC DAY...IT'S A SELBY v DING FINAL
From the perspective of fans, fellow pros and the media alike, a Betfred World Championship final between world No1 Mark Selby and China’s superstar Ding Junhui ticks a lot of boxes.
Read MoreARTIST DANIELA IS ALWAYS IN THE FRAME
Always fancied a portrait of your favourite player, or something for the club walls beyond a bog-standard photo? Then salvation may be at hand in the form of Austrian artist Daniela Reich.
Read MoreDING 147 EARNS HIM FRIENDLY REBUKE FROM O'SULLIVAN
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ding Junhui may have been in different quarter-finals – but the fates brought their stories together on Friday afternoon.
Read MoreWELSH HOPES CARRIED BY WHITE INTO THE QUARTERS
Michael White is the man Wales is looking to on Friday to continue his run at the BetVictor Welsh Open and become the first Welshman to win the title for 17 years.
Read MoreBERLIN AND THE TEMPODROM TAKE CENTRE STAGE
Opportunity knocks for the 32 players heading to Berlin this week for the 918.com German Masters at the Tempodrom, one of the more iconic venues currently used on the circuit.
Read MoreBEATING THE BEST MAKES TITLES EVEN SWEETER
All titles are sweet – but there is something about beating the best around either in the final or during the tournament that makes them taste even sweeter.
Read MoreRETURNING O'SULLIVAN ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS
Ronnie O’Sullivan was keen to play things down after his first-round Masters win over Mark Williams, but he has already answered some questions after his latest sabbatical.
Read MoreRANK AND FILE QUESTIONS
MARK SELBY says winning tournaments matters more to him than being world no.1…
Read MoreMAGNIFICENT McGILL
ANTHONY McGILL nearly quit snooker as a teenager. Now he’s in the quarter-finals of the Betfred World Championship…
Read MoreRELIEVED SELBY: I WAS PREPARING 'CURSE' EXIT SPEECH
MARK Selby breathed a huge sigh of relief on Saturday night - after edging a Betfred World Championship classic against Kurt Maflin.
Read MoreSELBY STARTS BALL ROLLING IN SNOOKER'S GAME OF THRONES
THE 17-DAY SNOOKER marathon that is the Betfred World Championship begins this morning at the Crucible in Sheffield…
Read MoreNEXT STOP SHEFFIELD FOR CHINA CHAMP SELBY
MARK SELBY returns home for his world title defence as China Open champion, which seemed unlikely at the start of the week after he developed a neck injury.
Read MoreSELBY WARMS UP FOR CRUCIBLE WITH CHINA TITLE
MARK Selby warmed up for his world title defence in the grand manner on Sunday night by claiming a first China Open title.
Read MoreKEEPING UP WITH REAL MADRID
The major European football leagues have a big following in China, and there was a moment in the China Open snooker final when all of the Chinese media suddenly started taking pictures of the screens showing the score between Mark Selby and Gary Wilson.
Enquiries revealed this baffling activity was in fact because the score in the snooker at that time (9-1 to Selby) was the same as the score in the Real Madrid La Liga match (9-1 against Granada). At least that wasn’t quite the end of the scoring for Wilson.
SELBY AND MAFLIN RECALL JUNIOR CLASHES
Mark Selby and Kurt Maflin may not have played too often as professionals, but their semi-final meeting at the China Open brought together two 31-year-olds who have been crossing cues for more than 20 years.
Maflin reckoned he had first played current world champion and world No1 Selby at the age of about nine.
And Leicester Jester Selby said: “It is easy to forget, but if Kurt is just older than me it can only be by a few months. He used to come to Willie Thorne’s for the junior competitions with his father.
“And I think I played Kurt in the final of the England Under-15s once, if I remember rightly I won that one 4-3. We haven’t played a lot as pros, I do think Kurt is very talented and has underachieved given that, which he says himself – but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he made it to the Crucible for the first time this year, as long as he gets over the jet-lag okay.”