Professional tournaments in table-top cue sports took place in 2020. These events include snooker, pool disciplines and billiards. Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and tournaments are held as doubles or as teams. The snooker season runs between May and April, whilst the pool and billiards seasons is listed over the calendar year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was disrupted with many events being cancelled or postponed. Cue sports events were played in January and February, before tournaments were discontinued for all disciplines due to the pandemic, returning in June without an audience.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the only professional world championship held during the year, the World Snooker Championship. The other Triple Crown events, the UK Championship and Masters, were won by Neil Robertson and Stuart Bingham, respectively. The only major pool tournament held during the year was the Mosconi Cup, won by the European team.
Pool The cue sport pool encompasses several disciplines, such as straight pool and nine-ball. Events such as the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, World Pool Masters, and the World Cup of Pool, were all postponed to the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mosconi Cup, contested between select teams from the US and Europe was played in December.
+ Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score December 1–4 Mosconi Cup England (Coventry) Europe USA 11–3
Euro Tour The Euro Tour is a professional nine-ball series run across Europe by the European Pocket Billiard Federation. There was just one event, the Treviso Open, with tournaments for both men and women. For the list now, (m) refers to the men's event and (f) to the women's tournament.
+ Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score February 20–22 Treviso Open Italy (Treviso)
Billiards World Billiards events Two World Billiards events were played in 2020, the remaining devices were postponed or cancelled. + Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score January 25 Scottish Open Scotland (Kirkcaldy) David Causier Peter Gilchrist 619–350February 14 Sydney Open Australia (Sydney) Peter Gilchrist Joe Minini 811–450
Three-Cushion World Cup The Three-Cushion World Cup traditionally played over several events had a single tournament in 2020.
+ Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score February 17–23 Turkey (Antalya) Dani Sánchez Dick Jaspers 50–35
Snooker
The World Snooker Tour generally begins in July and ends in May, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2019–20 snooker season ended in August, whereas the 2020–21 snooker season began in September. Ronnie O'Sullivan won his sixth World Snooker Championship, defeating Kyren Wilson in the final.
Snooker world rankings + Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score –26 European Masters Austria (Dornbirn) Neil Robertson Zhou Yuelong 9–0 – February 2 German Masters Germany (Berlin) Judd Trump Neil Robertson 9–6–9 World Grand Prix England (Cheltenham) Neil Robertson Graeme Dott 10–8–16 Welsh Open Wales (Cardiff) Shaun Murphy Kyren Wilson 9–1 –23 Snooker Shoot Out England (Watford) Michael Holt Zhou Yuelong 1–0 – March 1 Players Championship England (Southport) Judd Trump Yan Bingtao 10–4–15 Gibraltar Open Gibraltar Judd Trump Kyren Wilson 4–3–26 Tour Championship England (Milton Keynes) Stephen Maguire Mark Allen 10–6 – August 16 World Championship England (Sheffield) Ronnie O'Sullivan Kyren Wilson 18–8 – October 30 2020 Championship League England (Milton Keynes) Kyren Wilson Judd Trump 3–1–27 2020 European Masters England (Milton Keynes) Mark Selby Martin Gould 9–8–18 2020 English Open England (Milton Keynes) Judd Trump Neil Robertson 9–8–22 2020 Northern Ireland Open England (Milton Keynes) Judd Trump Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–7 – December 6 2020 UK Championship England (Milton Keynes) Neil Robertson Judd Trump 10–9–13 2020 Scottish Open England (Milton Keynes) Mark Selby Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–3–20 2020 World Grand Prix England (Milton Keynes) Judd Trump Jack Lisowski 10–7
Non-ranking events + Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score –19 The Masters England (London) Stuart Bingham Ali Carter 10–8 – May 3 2019–20 Championship League England (Leicester) Scott Donaldson Graeme Dott 3–0–11 2020 Championship League England (Milton Keynes) Luca Brecel N/A Round-robin– 8 2020 Champion of Champions England (Milton Keynes) Mark Allen Neil Robertson 10–6
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is a secondary non-professional snooker tour with events for invited players. The final four events of the 2019–20 Challenge Tour were played during 2020.
+ Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score –19 Challenge Tour 8 England (Tamworth) Lukas Kleckers Tyler Rees 3–1–16 Challenge Tour 9 Wales (Llanelli) Ashley Hugill Sydney Wilson 3–1–2 Challenge Tour 10 England (Leicester) Adam Duffy Kuldesh Johal 3–1 Challenge Tour Play Offs England (Sheffield) Allan Taylor Adam Duffy 4–0
World Seniors Tour
The World Seniors Tour is an amateur series open to players aged 40 and over. There was a single event in the 2020 World Seniors Tour. + Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score –22 World Seniors Championship England (Sheffield) Jimmy White Ken Doherty 5–4
Women's events The women's tour is an amateur tour, with one event held in Belgium during 2020. + Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score January 31 – February 2 Belgium Women's Open Belgium (Bruges) Ng On-yee Reanne Evans 4–2
Amateur events The English Amateur Championship was played in 2020, the hundredth staging of the event. + Date(s) Tournament Location Winner Runner-up Score 5–8 February 2020 English Amateur Championship England (Cheltenham) Ben Hancorn Rory McLeod 5–3
References
External links World Pool Association Official Website World Billiards Official Website World Snooker Official Website