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Barry Hearn announces calendar for 2010-2011

zack01 · 2010-04-23 11:12:09

As promised Barry Hearn has delivered on his word, the new calendar for next season sees almost non stop snooker for the players.Although this is only a provisional calendar it certainly sounds exciting. There will be an extra world ranking event in Germany ( told you that in Jan!) and for all you nostalgic snooker fans…

23-04-2010 12:12pm

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As promised Barry Hearn has delivered on his word, the new calendar for next season sees almost non stop snooker for the players.Although this is only a provisional calendar it certainly sounds exciting. There will be an extra world ranking event in Germany ( told you that in Jan!) and for all you nostalgic snooker fans out there a World Seniors Snooker Championship will be held in Nov, that should be great fun, talks i believe are ongoing with the tv companies to get this televised, it runs over a weekend because the number of players competing will have played in the qualifiers for the event in May.An extra 12 week event spread over the season will be the Players Tour C'ship with a prize fund of £540,000 on offer. Hearn is also trying to sanction a World Tour C'ship as well to reach out to the many snooker pro's living overseas.The Premier Snooker League also continues on Sky as does the Championship League incidently Marco Fu has just won this seasons Championship League and for his troubles he gets an invite to next seasons Premier Snooker League.He also wants to overhaul the ranking system and award players on current performances rather than players living off something they achieved over two years ago! that's how it is with the current two year ranking system.

We all know how Hearn has turned the game of darts into a global sport with huge viewing figures and prize money for the players and now with this calendar he seems intent on keeping his promise and doing the same for snooker.Earlier this season i attended the Masters in Wembley and the buzz amongst the players was visable with the recent appointment of Hearn certainly the main topic of conversation, the buzz was certainly still there went i went to Sheffield for the World C'ship qualifiers, because even players who did'nt make it to the crucible know that snooker is being reinvented and the opportunity to make a decent living out of their profession with Hearns help will improve.

So next on the list is the China Open which starts on Monday and is available on Eurosport and that leads us nicely on the big one the Worlds which starts 17th April (3 weeks tomorrow) Can't wait!!!!:)

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