SPORTS Saudi Arabia’s lavish sports push will now embrace snooker — and introduce a new golden ball
Saudi Arabia will hold its first major invitational snooker event in March as the kingdom continues to make sizable investments into a growing number of sports.
Games will take place under current World Snooker rules but with the introduction of a 23rd ball referred to as the “Riyadh Season” ball.
This golden ball will be worth 20 points but will only be pottable on completing a maximum break.
Saudi Arabia will hold its first major invitational snooker event in March as the kingdom continues to make sizable investments into a growing number of sports.
The “Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker” will take place between March 4 to March 6 at Boulevard Arena in the capital of Riyadh.
The inaugural event will feature some of the world’s top snooker players, including Ronnie O’Sullivan — widely recognized as one of the most talented players in the sport’s history — 2019 world champion Judd Trump and 2023 world champion Luca Brecel.
Games of snooker — a cue sport like billiards that is very popular in the U.K. and China — will take place under current World Snooker rules but with the introduction of a 23rd ball referred to as the “Riyadh Season” ball. This golden ball will be worth 20 points but will only be pottable on completing a maximum break.
It isn’t clear when this ball would be introduced to the standard table set-up, but it does mean the highest possible break at the event will be 167 — rather than the traditional maximum score of 147.
“We are thrilled to be hosting our first-ever professional snooker tournament in the Kingdom,” said Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority.
“Snooker is watched and played by millions around the world and we look forward to welcoming some of the greatest players and snooker fans to our country and showing them what Saudi Arabia and Riyadh Season has to offer,” Alalshikh said in a statement published Jan. 18.
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