Malta will this season have two players taking part in the Main Tour of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).
They are Tony Drago, now ranked 36, and Alex Borg, who has won through to the top 96 after his recent victory in the European Championship in Poland.
The WPBSA has just published its provisional schedule of events for the coming season and one can notice that, quite unfortunately, there will be no Malta Open this season.
The season will start with an invitational tournament in Belfast, N. Ireland, the first of its kind in that country.
The first event will be the Grand Prix where Alex Borg will take part in the qualifying rounds on 27 and 28 September in Pontin’s, at Prestatyn, Wales.
If he qualifies for the last 64, he will join Tony Drago for the third round onwards (finals) to be held at the Guild Hall in Preston, between 8 and 16 October.
The second event will be the Pot Black Invitational tournament at a venue in London on 29 October.
That will be followed by the qualifying rounds of the Travis Perkins UK Championship at Pontin’s, Prestatyn, between 31 October and 5 November.
The qualifying rounds for the China Open will follow at the same venue between 14 and 17 November.
The finals of the UK Championship are to be held at the Barbican Centre in York between 5 and 18 December.
Early next year, between 5 and 13 January, the world championship qualifiers will get under way and these will be followed by the Masters tournament at the Wembley Conference Centre between 15 and 22 January.
Between 24 and 27 January, there will be the qualifiers for the Welsh Open, again at Pontin’s Prestatyn.
The finals of the China Open will be next on the calendar. These will be held at a venue in Beijing, between 29 January and 5 February.
The finals of the Welsh Open are to be staged between 27 February and 5 March while qualifying for the world championship continues in Prestatyn on 14 and 15 March.
The finals of the world championship, at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, will bring the season to an end. The event will last from 15 April to 1 May.