2025 CBSA New Year Invitational – Days 2 and 3

Monique Snooker

The event concluded yesterday.

Ronnie had his last match on Thursday evening. He beat John Higgins by 5-1, leaving his Christmas/New Year exhibition trip to China with a perfect record: seven wins in seven matches.

That match is available on YouTube

Neither player played awesome but Ronnie made less mistakes than John… 1.

Ronnie didn’t the play on the last day but the fans had plenty to cheer on! They were treated with not just one but two 147…

Xiao Guodong made a 147 in the last frame of his match against Mark Williams. He won the match by 5-3.

And Judd Trump made another one in frame five against Ding to lead by 4-1

But … from there Ding took control of the match and eventually beat Judd by 5-4! As they say a 147 wins you only one frame!

For pictures and more media content please check Kalacs comments.

Thank you for your fantastic contributions Kalacs!

… in other news …

The 2025 Invitational Championship League Snooker started yesterday. Hossein Vafaei is at the top of the Group 1 table after day 1. Thanks to WST’s true dedication to develop snooker worldwide I was only “allowed” to watch table 2 on YouTube. Table 1 was only available to UK fans. Marvellous isn’t it? Well the action I witnessed on table two wasn’t exactly thrilling and that’s an understatement. Likely the players hadn’t much practice over the Xmas break…

6 thoughts on “2025 CBSA New Year Invitational – Days 2 and 3”

    1. That must have been the two 147’s played on the worst camera angle in snooker history. You can barely see the balls on the, top cushion, I think it’s called.
    2. Bizarrely Elliot Slessor lost all his 4 matches 3-1.
    3. I have access to table 1 outside of the UK at the moment.

      • Exactly as they had intended it to be and wrote on their website. Isn’t it infuriating? They geoblocked it and probably only fans in the UK will be able to watch the final … so much for being “WORLD” snooker.

      • Not for me. Fingers crossed that the World champion will always be on table 1, as it should be, therefore Ronnie on table 2 mostly.

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