BILLIARD EXTRAORDINAIRE Rob Corridor scooped the double the English Novice Match Play Championship and ABC at Woking Snooker Centre over the weekend.

The 38-year-old, who has gained 14 World Rating Occasions, and likewise performs on the English Novice Billiards Circuit, got here by way of a troublesome subject of 37 entrants within the event.

Within the Matchplay last, the Lincoln cueist performed Chris Mitchell and defeated him 2 – 0 and had a break of 77.

He defeated the Byfleet League snooker and billiard hotshot Ryan Mears, who has performed on TV within the 900 together with Jasmine Bolsover, and Corridor on route within the quarter-finals beat Mears, and Corridor has gained the occasion 8 instances.

He wrote on Fb:

After a protracted weekend on the baize, I’m delighted to have gained the double in Woking. On Saturday I defended my English Matchplay title (brief format) successful it for an eighth time. I additionally gained ABC-3 on the Sunday, my forty fifth in complete.
Because of the EABA for organising these occasions and to Woking Snooker Centre for internet hosting us.
Subsequent cease is Grimsby for an exhibition on Tuesday night after which onto Vienna Thursday to captain England within the ‘4 Nations’ occasion.

Woking, the place it was hosted, hosts many proficient gamers exterior of the completely different excursions, however, contained in the MARQUEE tent of World and Native excursions at Woking, consists of the World Ladies’s Snooker Tour, the World Incapacity Tour, and the Byfleet League, and the principle MARQUEE participant within the membership is the World Ladies’s No. 15 Jasmine Bolsover.

Woking hosts common handicap and scratch tournaments for its house members and people in and out of doors of the tents.

There have been some proficient children within the line-up and over the weekend, the proficient 11-year-old snooker and billiard prospect William Thomson, who’s enjoying in subsequent weekend’s Snooker Legends 900 Junior Occasion in Studying, which will probably be live-streamed on the Snooker Legends Fb web page, mentioned his favourite participant was nonetheless Mark Selby – however mentioned he favored Selby due to his haircut!

On the desk, Thomson, on Sunday, displayed, together with Riley Ellis, one other snooker expertise from Chandlers Ford, some promising billiard play with Thomson making a 46, simply 4 factors he mentioned off his highest break of fifty.

Actually trying ahead to partnering with John Hunter and his @snookercuestars for the primary Junior 900 which will probably be proven dwell on our Fb web page on Saturday 18th November with the winner getting interviewed on television throughout our grand last. The 900 is a good way to get juniors… pic.twitter.com/OQgPxKpmAZ

— Snooker Legends (@Snookerlegends) November 10, 2023

Within the English Matchplay competitors on Saturday, Thomson managed within the Plate to achieve the Quarter-finals.

The Plate was finally gained by Dan Gillingham, who beat Daniel Locke, 2 – 1.

The ABC Rating occasion occurred on Sunday and had 42 entries, turnout for billiards occasions. and it was the primary time that the ABC had been held at Woking.

Corridor acquired a certificates referring to the Rankings record and has gained the certificates 12 instances.

It was an amazing weekend of billiards at Woking and nicely completed to everybody who competed within the occasion on Saturday and Sunday, and to those that labored behind the scenes to place the occasions on together with Peter Ruddick and his workforce.

Because of Match Director Clive Scott, Nathan Mann, and Ryan Mears for the chat and the data on Sunday for the Matchplay.

Woking Snooker Centre and the EABA additionally held a two-minute silence on each days in honor of fallen associates who’ve given their lives over many generations to maintain the nation secure from dictatorships so that individuals can take pleasure in freedoms equivalent to enjoying sports activities free from dictatorships in pleasant group settings.

SnookerZone author Chris Gaynor will proceed to put on the Bracelet for the remainder of November as a tribute. Donate to the Royal British Legion in case you can…

AWAY FROM WOKING…

Up in Leicester, TESSA DAVIDSON scooped the fourth installment of the Winchester Ladies’s Collection Occasion defeating 52-year-old Sarah Corridor within the last.

Earlier winners of the Winchester, which is a brand new event on the calendar for girls, embrace the World Number one Mink Nutcharut, who has claimed it twice this primary season, and the World no 7 Emma Parker, who has been fearless on the Exhibition Circuit, and has additionally scooped the WACKO occasion, one more group of occasions for girls, the second might be in 2024 or earlier.

The official 900 shirt is obtainable for £25 from data@snookerlegends.co.uk pic.twitter.com/nkNIQRYsA4

— Snooker Legends (@Snookerlegends) November 11, 2023

The 54-year-old topped the excessive breaks board with a 72 within the Group phases of the occasion.

Screenshot of Corridor’s titles from Corridor’s Fb web page.

For the Snooker Legends 900 Junior Occasion, a possible soundtrack monitor…David Bowie: Starman. There may have been a star woman junior within the line-up for the occasion as nicely in Ellise Scott,

Good luck to the 16 gamers who play within the 900 Junior occasion on Saturday. Take pleasure in it. No strain.