John Higgins won the Totesport.com Welsh Open yesterday, a win that further cements his place at the top of the World Snooker provisional rankings. The Scotsman, the reigning World Champion, now sits a colossal 9505 points in front of Ronnie O’Sullivan in second after having amassed 31000 points so far this season. 

Ronnie O’Sullivan certainly set out his intentions at this weeks Welsh Open, he demolished some time practice partner Stuart Bingham 5-1 to set up a second tie with either Ding Junhui or Jamie Cope.

The Rocket, who lost a tense Masters final earlier in January, is the tournament favourite and with a performance like todays certainly looks in the right frame of mind to win another Welsh Open title.

Last years Welsh Open winner, Ali Carter, started very strongly yesterday in the defence of his title. The 2009 Welsh Open was Carter’s first ever world ranking crown and after a mixed year he will be doing his utmost to secure back-to-back Welsh titles.

Today is the final qualifying round of the Welsh Open snooker tournament, later on we will found out which 16 players will join the games elite at the Newport Centre in Newport next week.

Results sheet for the 2009 Welsh Open snooker championships ranking event.

Reports round by round on the 2009 Welsh Open snooker championships ranking event.

A round up of all the Welsh Open snooker Championships results for season 2007/08

News snippets of the 2007/08 Welsh Open Snooker Championships with links to the full match report at the BBC Snooker Website.

Results sheet for the 2007 Welsh Open Snooker Tournament in Newport Wales.

News Snippets of the 2007 Welsh Open Snooker Tournament from Newport Wales. Holding links to the full match reports.

Results list for the 2004/05 Welsh Open Snooker Championships.

Results list for the 2003/04 Welsh Open Snooker Championships.

Results list for the 2002/03 Welsh Open snooker Championships.

Results for the 2001/02 Welsh Open Snooker Championships

Results for the Welsh Open Snooker Championships 2000/01