Posts tagged Mark King
Romford duo square up at World Championship
Mar 12th
Steve Davis, making his 30th World Championship appearance next month, will take on hip-hop connoisseur Mark King at the Crucible next month.
The Nugget is now playing professional snooker for the fifth consecutive decade, but last won this tournament back in 1989. It’s also 25 years since that epic final involving Dennis Taylor.
How Davis would love [...]
Impressive Maguire knocks out hot-stepper King
Jan 12th
Stephen Maguire advanced into the quarter-finals of the Masters last night with a 6-3 win against the tournament’s pre-match entertainer.
Maguire saw off the challenge of the man now dubbed in some quarters as “the hot-stepper”, Mark King, after his antics in Sunday’s wildcard round match against Jimmy White.
King once again entertained the crowd on his [...]
White left feeling sick after Masters exit
Jan 11th
Jimmy White conceded he was “sickened” after being knocked out of the Masters first round by Mark King last night.
The 47-year-old wildcard was determined to make a big impression following his stint in the Australian jungle for the ITV1 show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, but must have wished he’d stayed in [...]
Slimmed down White looks forward to Masters
Jan 4th
Snooker legend Jimmy White expects to enter the Masters in better physical shape than in recent years, all because of his stint in the Australian jungle for the ITV1 hit show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The 47-year-old has revealed that he lost weight during his three weeks on the programme, and expects [...]
The Whirlwind bags a wild card
Dec 17th
A few weeks ago Rory McLeod, who reached the last 32 in this year’s UK Championship, won the whole Masters Qualifying Event and received a wild card to the Masters tournament at Wembley next year.
The second wild card was announced today. Jimmy White, who won both the World Series of Snooker in Prague and the [...]
