Wayne Cooper (The Clubhouse In Cue Gardens) has just won his fourth Bradford Championship in five seasons, but admits this one meant more than any of the others.

The 22-year-old from West Bowling defeated Bradford team-mate Matthew Holt 4-1 in the final at Lilycroft WMC, and revealed afterwards: "I wanted to win this one for my dad Harry.

"It was two years to the day that I played the final since he died, and I wanted to win it so much for him."

Cooper turns professional this summer, and early in the final it looked as if his opponent from Idle Cricket Club would walk away with the spoils.

Holt took the opening frame 51-11 and said afterwards that he thought he had caught Cooper on an off night.

"I couldn't pot a ball," said Cooper, who already had the pairs title under his belt. "But then I didn't miss anything for the next four frames - not until each frame was over anyway."

Breaks of 79, 68 and 51 gave him the next three 91-0, 68-9 and 69-21, and he got over the line 57-27 in the fifth.

Seven-times world champion Stephen Hendry is claiming another victory for rebels 110 Sport in their battle with the game's governing body.

But the Scot expressed his concern at the way the World Snooker Association is "wasting" members' money "attempting to defend the indefensible".

World Snooker have announced they will remove a rule relating to events in which players can take part in events only sanctioned by the official body.

Chief executive Jim McKenzie said: "If any promoter wants to set up its own events, players will be free to choose to take part in them. We are confident that World Snooker has the right events, prize-money, sponsors and host broadcasters to be a success."

Hendry sees this as another climbdown by the authorities ahead of a court case between the sides on June 13.

During the recent Embassy World Championship, World Snooker lost a bid to have the date re-scheduled.

110 Sport were awarded £30,000 towards legal costs with Justice Jacobs describing the application as "preposterous".

Since the action was initially raised in March by Hendry and Mark Williams, World Snooker withdrew their demand that players must sign to their Tour by a fixed deadline and then they scrapped plans to limit players to just one sponsor's logo.