Snooker
2024 Welsh Open: live snooker schedule on TV today, featuring Judd Trump – and prize money from Llandudno
Welsh Open Snooker Tournament Overview
The Welsh Open, the last of the four Home Nations Series snooker tournaments, begins today (12 February) at Venue Cymru in Llandudno. The annual event, held since 1992, attracts top snooker players from around the world.
Key Points:
- Tournament Details: The Welsh Open contributes to players’ world rankings, with ranking points earned based on performance. The winner of this year’s tournament will receive £80,000 from a total prize fund of £427,000.
- Notable Absences: Ronnie O’Sullivan, the world number one, has withdrawn from the tournament due to anxiety, continuing his trend of skipping lesser-ranking events for health and well-being reasons. World number two Judd Trump also won’t be participating.
- Defending Champion: Robert Milkins, the defending champion, faces Jamie Jones in the first round, aiming to replicate last year’s success when he beat Shaun Murphy 9-7 in the final. Home favorite Mark Williams, last winning the title in 1999, is also competing.
- How to Watch: The tournament can be watched live on BBC Two Wales, BBC iPlayer, Red Button, and the BBC Sport website and app. The TV schedule includes coverage from Monday (12 February) to the final on Sunday (18 February), with varying time slots for each day’s play.
TV Schedule (GMT):
- Monday 12 February: 10:00-16:30 and 19:30-20:30
- Tuesday 13 February: 10:00-16:30 and 19:00-22:00
- Wednesday 14 February: 10:00-16:30 and 19:00-22:00
- Thursday 15 February: 12:30-16:30 and 19:00-22:00
- Friday 16 February: Quarter-finals (12:30-16:30 and 19:00-19:20, 21:30-22:30)
- Saturday 17 February: Semi-finals (13:00-16:30 and 19:00-22:00)
- Sunday 18 February: Final (13:00-16:30 and 19:00-22:00)
Conclusion:
The Welsh Open promises intense snooker action, with top players competing for ranking points and a significant prize fund. The absence of O’Sullivan and Trump opens the field for other contenders, making it an exciting tournament for snooker enthusiasts to follow.
Date of Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything, a David Beckham-produced documentary on Amazon Prime
Documentary on snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan Amazon Prime and movie theaters will soon be hosting The Edge of Everything.
Former England football captain David Beckham is producing a behind-the-scenes documentary on Amazon Prime that features snooker legend Ronnie “The Rocket” O’Sullivan.
The seven-hour documentary follows O’Sullivan, who ranks first in the world in 2023, as he attempts to win a seventh World Snooker Championship at The Crucible in 2022, tying a record.
Warning: This is a spoiler alert: O’Sullivan pulled off the amazing accomplishment, defeating Judd Trump in the last eighteen frames by a score of thirteen, matching the record set by 1999 world champion Stephen Hendry.
David Beckham’s Studio 99 is producing The Edge of Everything, and the football player is serving as executive producer. This month, Beckham appeared in his own documentary series on Netflix.
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A question and answer session with O’Sullivan and Beckham will take place before of the movie’s theatrical debut, which occurs a few days before its wider release on Amazon Prime.
Ronnie O’Sullivan features in Amazon Prime snooker documentary The Edge of Everything
What is the opinion of Ronnie O’Sullivan regarding The Edge of Everything?
“My highs and lows have been well-documented by the media but I felt like now was the right time to do something more definitive – something that I can look back on and reflect on as I contemplate retirement,” O’Sullivan said in reference to the Amazon documentary.
“I wasn’t sure I had it in me going into my sixth World Championship, but letting the cameras in helped me in many ways and provided me with a fresh viewpoint.
“I’ve allowed total access to the point where that’s essentially what happened if you followed me for 17 days with a fly on the wall.
“They have visited my hotel room and dressing room both before and after workouts and matches. I accepted it because I figure I should just give everything I do my best effort.
Is Ronnie O’Sullivan going to retire?
The 47-year-old has talked about his future in the sport on multiple occasions. While he hasn’t said when exactly he will retire, he has hinted that it will be after he hits 50.
While Steve Davis, one of the most famous snooker players of all time, continued to play until he was 58 years old, Stephen Hendry, the man who set the world championship record that O’Sullivan sets his goals on equal in the documentary, retired at the age of 42.
The Rocket stated that he is unable to attend every snooker competition and that he hopes to end his career in Asia, where snooker is more popular. This may require him to miss some events in the United Kingdom.
Ronnie ‘The Rocket’ O’Sullivan’s journey to a seventh World Snooker Championship victory is captured in Amazon Prime documentary The Edge of Everything, produced by David Beckham
Who else appears in the documentary on Ronnie O’Sullivan?
The Prime documentary will feature interviews with O’Sullivan’s friends, family, and rivals from his professional life.
Along with The Rocket’s buddies, artist Damien Hirst and Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood, other snooker luminaries that will be included in the documentary are Jimmy White and Stephen Hendry.
Is Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything available as a trailer?
When will Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything be available?
On Tuesday, November 21, the documentary will be shown in a few UK theaters as part of a one-night special event that will include a live streamed Q&A at each location.
On Thursday, November 23, it will subsequently be available on Amazon Prime Video in the UK and Ireland. The next day, the documentary will screen in a few more theaters.
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Stephen Hendry agree that snooker star is ‘not enjoying’ sport.
Gary Wilson and Ronnie O’Sullivan. (Image: Getty)
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Stephen Hendry are snooker’s two best players with seven world championship wins each.
One of snooker’s pinnacle players has mentioned two of the game’s all-time greats when justifying how he’s able to continue in the activity barring enjoying it. Gary Wilson, a 2019 World Championship semi-finalist presently sixteenth in the rankings, and has now received back-to-back Scottish Open titles after beating Noppon Saengkham in the cutting-edge closing in December.
Those two triumphs represent the solely ranking titles of his career, but his success at Meadowbank has carried out little for his morale. And amid a mixed season, he’s presently working besides a instruct – a idea that he reputedly favours.
“Nobody can sense what you feel,” he told Metro. “It can appear excellent and sense awful. People have informed me I’m enjoying awesome (after his Scottish Open win), however I didn’t sense like that at all.
“It’s like the Stephen Hendry story, his final 147 at the Crucible, he said he performed six proper shots, the rest had been awful. Ronnie says it as well, steering balls in, twitch one in there, snatch every other one in, but he appears brilliant!”
Stephen Hendry struggled in the latter years of his professional career. (Image: Getty)
O’Sullivan in precise has consistently instructed newshounds that he struggles to take pleasure from snooker, and has made usual threats to retire all through his iconic career. That persona has remained in this campaign, despite the ‘Rocket’ being on the brink of an historic treble of Triple Crown events in 2023/24 having already captured the Masters and UK Championship.
“I don’t assume you can’t let someone in like that, they’ll tell you one factor and you’ll sense another,” continued Wilson. “Sometimes you’re hitting them so good, but they’re just not quite going where you choose them to go, it doesn’t seem like you’re enjoying well, however you feel brilliant. It’s a peculiar game.”
‘The Tyneside Terror’ became expert in 2013, and at 38, nevertheless seemingly has many years in advance of him at the pinnacle level. However, he claims his psychological struggles with the activity delve returned to when he was a teenager placing about on his experience towards turning professional.
“I suppose I’ve been pissed off with the game for 20-odd years,” he said. “I’m grateful in that way that I’ve been frustrated for such a large phase of my profession and I’ve nonetheless had a career. I am thankful for that.”
Wilson’s trendy displaying noticed him crushed in 4 of his six fits at the World Championship League this week. He misplaced his two concluding matches, in opposition to Neil Robertson and John Higgins, barring getting a body on the board, going down 3-0 both times.
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