Seven youngsters reach the final of Ronnie O’Sullivan’s Future Stars of Snooker 2011
Seven young snooker stars have reached the final of Ronnie O’Sullivan’s Future Stars of Snooker 2011. The young hopefuls will go through a real test now, as they have to compete in three challenges
set by the Rocket himself to claim 2011 Ronnie’s Future Star of Snooker title. The final competitions will commence at Rileys sports bar in Victoria, London on August 11.
Rileys sports bar held this talent hunt in February under the supervision of former three-time world snooker champion, Ronnie O’Sullivan. The talent search picks young snooker stars, aged 16 or under,
who compete at Rileys club to prove themselves worthy. The selection process filtered 120 young players who competed in different matches, and picked seven players for the final showdown.
The final seven players are; Dylan Craig from Greenfield, George Pragnell from Norwich, Robert Dagnall from Rainford, Adam Bobat from Fareham, Toby Simpson from Long Eaton, Steven Hallworth from Skellingthorpe
and Jamie Clarke from Pemberton. These seven players will compete at the Rileys club for Future Snooker Star title and £5,000 prize money.
The former three-time world snooker champion and supervisor, Ronnie O’Sullivan is quite happy with the progress of the event. He coached the former Future Star of Snooker, Joel Walker, who won the
event in 2010. Ronnie hopes the initiative taken by Rileys and himself will produce amazing snooker players like John Higgins, Judd Trump and Jimmy White in future.
Speaking to the local media, O’Sullivan said, “This is an amazing opportunity for the kids. There's a lot of money to be made in professional snooker nowadays, especially with all the new tournaments
Barry Hearn has introduced.”
He went on to add, “It's great to see snooker appealing to a younger crowd, I think the likes of Judd Trump coming into the game has been a real boost for the sport. Last year's standard in the final
of Future Stars was unbelievable; there are a lot of talented youngsters around and I'm really looking forward to seeing how these kids do.”
The seven finalists will compete in three O’Sullivan challenges, Six Red Challenges, Snookered and Cushion pot or Cush Pot. The winner in all these three challenges will not only win £5,000 prize
money, which will be spent on his career development, but will also take snooker coaching from O’Sullivan himself.
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