The European Teams and Juniors Snooker Championships will get underway today at the Dolmen Hotel in Qawra.

Malta men’s team 1 will meet Malta men’s team 4 in the morning opening session starting at 10am. At the same time Malta men’s team 2 will face the Ukrainian team.

During the first afternoon session scheduled to start at 1pm, Malta men’s team 3 will play their first match against Sweden. In the second afternoon session at 4pm, Malta men’s team 2 will be up against Finland.

Later in the day, during the evening session starting at 7pm, Malta men’s team 1 will be encountering the Romanians while Malta men’s team 3 will be again be called into action against France.

In the Masters section, Malta team 1, composed of Simon Zammit and Joe Grech, will be playing Israel at 10am while Tony Mifsud and Ivan Rizzo in Malta team B Russia at 4pm.

In the ladies teams section Roberta Cutajar and Svetlana Ciantar will play two matches at 1pm and at 4pm against Israel and Russia respectively.

The Juniors under 21 will start on Saturday 2 April starting off at 7pm.

The European Snooker Team Championships are being organised by the Malta Billiards and Snooker Association together with the European Billiards and Snooker Association.

Entrance for the tournament is free.

Aaron Busuttil, Chris Peplow, Gary Carr, Luke Borg, Matthew Calleja, Matthew Zammit, Shaun Sultana, Thurston Grixti and Wayne Pace will be taking part in the U-21 European Championships singles tournament:

A total of 17 countries including Malta will be partecipating in this event.