Strachan Cloth and Aramith Balls are the Reference suppliers to virtually all major amateur and professional snooker events, clubs and sports organisations in the world. They have also been the official cloth and ball suppliers to the World Snooker Tour since 1980.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the creation of snooker, we interviewed Jason Ferguson, Director of the World Snooker Tour and Chairman at the WPBSA, the world governing body for snooker and billiards.
This second of 6 episodes tackles the importance of the snooker cloth and balls on the World Snooker Tour.
The importance of snooker cloth
“It has to be consistent. It has to have the perfect finish. It helps the players use spin. It helps them use the technical aspects of the sport. And the players have finely tuned their own skills and only the best will do.”
The importance of snooker balls
“It’s not an easy thing to produce. A perfect sphere of perfect weight to give perfect performance to every player. It’s very hard to produce and very few have ever achieved that level. And that is a major contributor to the way that the game is played.”
The Partnership with Strachan and Aramith
“These partners are fundamental to what goes on today. And everybody talks about the standard of snooker. And the standard that we see today is just incredible. But actually we have to reflect on the standard of some of the equipment that is being provided to us these days as well. The perfection that we get from our cloth manufacturer Strachan and the perfection that we get from Aramith in the balls is really just at the highest level.”
For more information about Aramith snooker balls, please visit our Products section.
For more information about Strachan cloths, please visit https://strachan.co/
For more information about the World Snooker Tour, please visit https://www.wst.tv/
For more information about the WPBSA, please visit https://wpbsa.com/