{"id":15329,"date":"2016-11-29T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=15329"},"modified":"2016-11-29T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:01:23","slug":"welsh-success-uk-snooker-championship-hides-lack-young-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/11\/29\/welsh-success-uk-snooker-championship-hides-lack-young-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh success in UK Snooker Championship hides lack of young players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">THERE will be five snooker players from South Wales playing in the last 32 of the UK Championship today, but the manager of one of Cardiff\u2019s biggest snooker clubs has expressed his concern about the future of Welsh snooker.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nick Risdale, 40, is the manager of Penarth Road Snooker Club in Llandough, Cardiff, where a number of Welsh snooker professionals have practised over the years.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is nice to see Welsh players doing well just now because Welsh snooker hasn\u2019t exactly been hitting the heights lately,\u201d said Mr Risdale.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think the biggest problem with snooker here is the lack of youth coming through. It seems to be very popular in China but in this country it\u2019s a sport in decline,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/>\nA look at the official snooker World Rankings would suggest Mr Risdale has a point. There are only two Welshmen in their early 20s in the Top 100. Duane Jones, 23, from Rhondda is ranked 86 and Jak Jones, also aged 23, is currently ranked 82.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the five Welsh players in the third round of this year\u2019s UK Championship in York, only Jamie Jones, 28, is under the age of 36.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two-time World Champion Mark Williams, from Cwm, is 41 years old, Penarth\u2019s Dominic Dale is 44, Carmarthen\u2019s Matthew Stevens is 39 and Bridgend\u2019s Ryan Day is 36.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apart from Williams, each of the remaining Welshmen will take on a player inside the top ten of the world rankings.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 1pm, Matthew Stevens will play world number nine Joe Perry while Dominic Dale faces world number six and former World Champion Shaun Murphy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the same time, Mark Williams takes on the man immediately behind him in the world rankings&#8211; 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If more snooker was shown on the BBC then maybe that would inspire younger generations,\u2019 said Mr Risdale.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time the UK Championship was won by a Welshman was 2003, when Matthew Stevens beat seven-time World Champion Stephen Hendry in the final.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THERE will be five snooker players from South Wales playing in the last 32 of the UK Championship today, but the manager of one of Cardiff\u2019s biggest snooker clubs has expressed his concern about the future of Welsh snooker. 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