Thursday, December 26, 2024

Cuestars

A grassroots snooker scheme

Championship Tour 

Can you beat Joe Perry’s score?

John Hunter

JOE Perry has had a go. Tessa Davidson has had a go. Bradley Cowdroy has had a go. And that’s just to name three.

We are talking about the Cuestars Academy version of Stephen Hendry’s 6 Steps To Make Your First 100+ Break from the seven-time world champion’s popular YouTube channel, Cue Tips.

Cuestars director John Hunter is busy filming more attempts. The players he wants to showcase are those who have achieved national or international success this year. And those attempts at scoring as many points as possible on six routines in one hour will go on the Cuestars – YouTube channel.

This year’s major achievements:

1. 15 of the 36 places available in all the England junior snooker and billiards teams at the Home Internationals were filled by regular Cuestars players. (Snooker: Oliver Sykes, Evan Plummer, O’Shay Scott, Adam Abbas, William Hurley, Asten Sahota, Harry Wyatt, Ryan Spratt, William Thomson, Zain Jeraj, Dylan Beer, Ellise Scott. Billiards: Riley Ellis, William Thomson, Asten Sahota.)

2. Ten of England’s 15 places in next March’s junior European Championships in Turkey have gone to lads who have competed in our tournaments this year. (Oliver Sykes, Aidan Murphy, O’Shay Scott twice, Kaylan Patel, Dylan Smith, William Thomson, William Hurley, Adam Abbas, Zain Jeraj.)

3. Oliver Sykes is the English Junior Tour champion for the second season running.

4. Wayne Townsend is top of the World Seniors Snooker – Race To The Crucible rankings and Dharminder Singh Lilly is in second place.

5. John Hunter leads the World Super Seniors rankings.

6. Tessa Davidson won the Women’s World Snooker (WWS) Seniors Championship and is currently number one on the WWS Seniors rankings.

7. O’Shay Scott was runner-up in the English Under-16 and Under-18 Championships.

8. William Thomson was runner-up in the English Under-14 Championship and the 12-year-old won his third successive English Under-16 Billiards Championship.

9. Oliver Sykes is 12th and Connor Benzey is 16th on the Q Tour Europe rankings. A minimum of 16 players from Q Tour Europe will qualify for the play-offs in Turkey in March and a chance to win a two-year tour card.

10. Ellise Scott is third on the WWS under-21 rankings.

11. Billy Castle is 10th on the EPSB English Amateur Tour rankings.

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