Snooker rankings: update after Mark Allen’s victory in the 2025 English Open
The latest snooker rankings update follows the conclusion of the English Open, the 2025/26 season’s fourth ranking event. Mark Allen captured his first ranking title in 19 months in dramatic circumstances as he pipped Zhou Yuelong 9-8 to win late on Sunday night in Brentwood. Remarkably, it was the Northern[Read More…] The post Snooker rankings: […]
2025 British Open: who’s playing at the FA Cup-style snooker event?
The English Open is just a few hours old, but it’s straight onto the next ranking event with the 2025 British Open beginning on Monday in Cheltenham. Mark Allen emerged with the title in Brentwood late on Sunday night after a dramatic final to the season’s fourth ranking tournament. Like[Read More…] The post 2025 British […]
Exhausted English Open champion Mark Allen ‘happy to win ugly’
Mark Allen emerged as the 2025 English Open champion with a gruelling 9-8 defeat of Zhou Yuelong in Brentwood. The Northern Irishman captured his 12th career ranking title in the early hours of Monday morning after another marathon match. It was the fifth game in succession in the tournament whereby[Read More…] The post Exhausted English […]
Allen survives Zhou comeback to win English Open

Mark Allen survives a spirited comeback from Zhou Yuelong to win the English Open in a final-frame decider and claim his first ranking title in 19 months.
Zhou beats Selby to reach English Open final

China’s Zhou Yuelong sets up an English Open final against Mark Allen with a 6-3 win over two-time champion Mark Selby in Brentwood.
Mark Allen and Zhou Yuelong will contest the 2025 English Open final
Mark Allen and Zhou Yuelong reached the 2025 English Open final with hard-fought semi-final victories on Saturday in Brentwood. Zhou first booked his spot in a fourth career ranking event final with a 6-3 victory over outright favourite Mark Selby, who was surprisingly well short of his best. The latter[Read More…] The post Mark Allen […]
English Open: who are in the semi-finals and what time are the playing?
Both semi-finals at the 2025 English Open will pit proven ranking winners and former world number ones against wannabe champions. A dramatic quarter-final Friday at the Brentwood Centre produced three deciding-frame finishes as the players continued their challenges to claim the Steve Davis Trophy. Two further victories separate them from[Read More…] The post English Open: […]
Selby beats Page to reach English Open semi-finals

Mark Selby makes superb 131 break in the deciding frame of his 5-4 win over Jackson Page to move into the semi-finals of the English Open.
How the quarter-finals look in the 2025 English Open draw
There are eight contenders left in the draw vying for glory with the 2025 English Open at the quarter-finals stage in Brentwood. A giant-killing couple of days in the season’s fourth ranking event means that there are just two players from the world’s top 16 still in the hunt. Five[Read More…] The post How the […]
Trump and Murphy both knocked out of English Open

World number one Judd Trump slips to a 4-3 defeat against Elliot Slessor, while Shaun Murphy loses by the same score to Jackson Page in the fifth round of the English Open.
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