Ryan Day defeated Andy Lavin 4-1 to win the second World Seniors Tour event of the 2026-27 season at The Crucible Club in Reading. The completed final is recorded in the official WPBSA SnookerScores results for 27 September.
The event brought together 67 players across 25-27 September, according to World Seniors Snooker’s tournament information. Day and Robert Milkins had been highlighted by the organiser as former ranking-event winners in the field, alongside a number of leading seniors competitors.
Day reached the final by beating Mark Davis 4-2, while Lavin advanced with a 4-0 victory over Karl Ashmore. The title match ended with a three-frame margin in Day’s favour, completing a run of six recorded match wins.
Day’s route to the Reading title
Day began with successive 4-0 victories over Kevin Willsher in the last 64 and Matthew Day in the last 32. He then defeated Aaron Canavan 4-1 to reach the quarter-finals, according to the official results.
Canavan had been identified as the World Seniors Snooker world number one in the organiser’s entry-list information. His last-16 meeting with Day followed wins over Shaun Rooney and Neil Carroll, but Day progressed to the concluding stages.
The quarter-final brought a 4-2 win over Stuart Watson before Day secured the same score against Davis in the semi-finals. Davis had reached that meeting by beating Jamie Curtis-Barrett 4-2 after previously defeating Dharminder Lilly.
Day’s listed results show that none of his six victories ended at 4-3. Two came without conceding a frame, while his closest winning margins were the two-frame differences against Watson and Davis before the final.
The champion’s results
| Round | Opponent | Day’s score |
|---|---|---|
| Last 64 | Kevin Willsher | 4-0 |
| Last 32 | Matthew Day | 4-0 |
| Last 16 | Aaron Canavan | 4-1 |
| Quarter-final | Stuart Watson | 4-2 |
| Semi-final | Mark Davis | 4-2 |
| Final | Andy Lavin | 4-1 |
Lavin’s run and other leading entrants
Lavin reached the final after three consecutive 4-2 wins over Mark Johnson, Wayne Townsend and John Parkin. His quarter-final was the closest result of his run: he edged Daniel Ward 4-3 before sweeping Ashmore aside in the semi-finals.
Ashmore had eliminated Milkins 4-1 in the last 16 and then defeated Dean Galbally 4-2. Lavin’s subsequent semi-final win stopped that sequence and secured his meeting with Day.
Craig Steadman, named by World Seniors Snooker as the winner of the opening tour event, also appeared in the field. His campaign ended in the last 32 with a 4-1 defeat by Lilly, who subsequently lost to Davis in the last 16.
Watson reached the quarter-finals after beating Danny Rydzek 4-0, Stephen Wycherley 4-3 and Marc Shaw 4-2. Curtis-Barrett’s last-eight place followed victories over Mick Hartley, Billy Ginn and Matthew Ford, each by a 4-1 scoreline.
Ward advanced through his first two matches without losing a frame, defeating Mark Evans and Andy Milliard 4-0. A 4-1 win against Neil Craycraft brought him to the quarter-final against Lavin, where a deciding frame settled their contest.
Before eliminating Milkins, Ashmore had beaten Nicholas Smith 4-0 and Steve Crowley 4-1. His campaign reached the last four, giving Lavin a semi-final against a player who had already removed one of the former ranking-event champions from the draw.
How the event fits the seniors season
World Seniors Snooker described the 2026-27 tour as a series of nine events staged in Reading. The best performers on its official two-year ranking list and one-year Race to the Crucible list earn places at the 2027 World Seniors Championship in Sheffield next May.
The Reading programme therefore connects the individual event results with a longer campaign towards Sheffield. Day’s second-event victory follows Steadman’s success in the opener, giving the series a different winner in each of its first two tournaments.