Rounding up the week’s snooker news in 147 seconds...

Stephen Hendry, one of snooker’s all-time greats, looks back on his halcyon days in the new episode of the WST Podcast.

Hendry admits to Michael McMullan that he had mixed emotions when Ronnie O’Sullivan matched his record of seven Crucible crowns last season. He said: ”I’m not going to lie, I didn’t want Ronnie to equal my record, and I don’t want him to beat it. Why would I? But if he does, then fair play. He has taken the game to a new level and he is a wonderful snooker player. But it was also a relief. Maybe not that night - because there was a bit of sadness that he had won a seventh - but after a while it felt as if pressure was lifted from me because he has picked up the mantle now.”

Hendry also discusses the current state of his own game, his work as a television commentator and analyst, and the launch of his YouTube channel.

Rounding up the week’s snooker news in 147 seconds...

Up-and-coming potter Jackson Page is in the hot seat for the new episode of the WST Podcast.

The 21-year-old Welshman recalls his fantastic run at the World Championship last year, reaching the last 16 at the Crucible. He also tells Michael McMullan about his friendship with Mark Williams and his ambitions for the future.

Up-and-coming potter Jackson Page is in the hot seat for the new episode of the WST Podcast.

The 21-year-old Welshman recalls his fantastic run at the World Championship last year, reaching the last 16 at the Crucible. He also tells Michael McMullan about his friendship with Mark Williams and his ambitions for the future.

Rounding up the week’s snooker news in 147 seconds...

The only player to have made 12 centuries at the Crucible but never won a match there is the subject of the new episode of the WST Podcast.

Rookie of the Year in 2014, John Astley went on to reach a ranking event quarter-final in 2016 and knocked Neil Robertson out of the UK Championship in 2021.

He also achieved fame beyond snooker in 2016 when he performed in The Nap, a play with a snooker theme which ran for three weeks at the Crucible. In one scene he had to attempt a century break, and in another he contested the last few balls of the World Championship final.

Astley speaks to Michael McMullan about that experience, and reveals his ambitions on snooker’s real stage.

A few days ahead of the Cazoo Masters, Stuart Bingham recalls winning the event in 2020, as well as his many other career highlights, in the new episode of the WST Podcast.

Rounding up the week’s snooker news in 147 seconds...

Two-time ranking event semi-finalist Robbie Williams looks back on his decade as a pro in the new episode of the WST Podcast.

Williams reflects on his best moments including an epic World Championship final round qualifying match which went to a respotted black in the deciding frame, and a moment this season which left him ”heart-broken...I got back to my hotel room and I was in shock.”