Cue sports star Singh is on song ahead of World Championship bid as Conservative Club dominate Peterborough League

Steve Singh made a complete clearance of 130 at the Conservative Club while practicing for the World Pool Championships. Photo David Lowndes.

Popular local cue sports star Gurdev ‘Steve’ Singh has run into form at a good time.

Singh is currently preparing for the World 8-ball Pool Championships in Blackpool in June when he hopes to skipper India to a hat-trick of senior team titles.

India beat the rest of the world in Ireland in 2022 and Morocco in 2023.

Singh is also a former World Pool Masters champion, winning that title in Blackpool in 2014, just five years after taking up the sport seriously.

Conservative Club A team member Gary Norman with singles champion Darren Bampkin. Photo David Lowndes.

And he proved he’s cueing well with a recent 130 total clearance during practice at the Conservative Club in the city, watched by PT photographer David Lowndes.

"The reason I play snooker for practice is in order to sharpen up my potting in pool,” Singh said.

His snooker is decent though. He plays for the Conservative B team who narrowly missed out by two frames to Conservative A in Division One of the Peterborough League last season.

It was a second successive title success for the A team, while the Conservative F team romped away with Division Two, finishing top without losing any of 30 matches.

Conservative Club player Darren Bampkin also won the coveted Guildenburgh Singles Trophy beating Jim Howe 4-3 in the final.

The match was a nail-biter as Howe came back from 3-1 down to level the game, but Bampkin was just too strong in the final frame.

Bampkin also had the highest break in the tournament of 75.