Sheffield (UK), Apr 7: The World Snooker Championship is a prestigious tournament where the winner takes home 500,000 Euros and the title of world champion! The qualifiers of this tournament have started and here are the scores of yesterday’s matches:
Bai Langning beat Allan Taylor 6 – 4
Brandon Sargeant beat Rebecca Kenna 6 – 4
Duane Jones beat Hayden Staniland 6 – 5
Steven Hallworth beat Dean Young 6 – 2
Snooker is a game played on a table much like a billiards (a similar game) table. To win the game, you need to be the first to win 6 frames. A frame in snooker is a match, much like sets in table tennis. One wins a frame by getting more points than their opponent. One gets points by either a foul by the opponent (professionals are able to force their opponents to hit a foul shot by certain techniques) or by hitting the coloured balls into the pockets of the table.
A player can hit the coloured balls via a cue ball (coloured white) which they hit with long sticks called cue sticks. In order to pot balls, the cue stick is held horizontally and its tip is used to push the cue ball.
