Ben Woollaston begins his first Crucible campaign in 12 years on Wednesday night as he takes on fellow Leicester potter and four-time champion Mark Selby. He is married to snooker referee Tatiana ...

SNOOKER referee Michaela Tabb has announced she is stepping away from the sport. The trailblazing ref, 57, made history as ...

Trailblazing female referee Michaela Tabb has retired from traditional snooker, with fellow official Tatiana Woollaston now paying tribute to the Scot.

Michaela Tabb has retired as a snooker referee after taking charge of her last match at the Crucible Theatre, having made history at the venue as the first female to referee a World Championship final ...

Michaela Tabb took charge of her last snooker match by refereeing the World Seniors Snooker Tour final after paving the way for a generation of female officials ...

Ben and Tatiana Woollaston are the husband and wife enjoying the spotlight at the World Snooker Championship - but never in the same match.

Married to Ben, who is set to start his first Crucible campaign ... presence of female referees like Michaela Tabb once made headlines in the male-dominated world of snooker, but now, thanks ...

Michaela Tabb, the legendary snooker referee, made her retirement from traditional snooker official after taking charge of her final match at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. The pioneering 57-year-old ...

Bozhilova is not the only female referee on the main Tour, with Tatiana Woollaston (from Belarus), Malgorzata Kanieska (Poland) and Maike Kesseler (Germany) also officiating this year at the Crucible.

Michaela Tabb decided to retire from traditional snooker refereeing after officiating the first five frames of the World Seniors Snooker Tour (WSST) final at the Crucible Theatre ...

“Careful with the wrappers there,” the referee stopped to admonish ... “I don’t like the Crucible,” O’Sullivan, who has a snooker academy in Riyadh, told English newspaper The Sun ...

Desislava Bozhilova was a landscape architecture student in Bulgaria when she first had designs on becoming a snooker referee. Tomorrow, she will walk out at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield to ...