Team Europe begin their Mosconi cup defence for 2016 at Alexandra Palace tonight – after spending a productive weekend in St Albans.

Captained by Marcus Chamat, the team of Niels Feijen, Jayson Shaw, Mark Gray, Albin Ouschan and Darren Appleton used the Saint Bar in Upper Dagnall Street as their training base on Saturday and Sunday.

Herts Advertiser’s photographer Danny Loo was on hand to capture the Europeans in action in our gallery.

The opening evening of matches sees the teams compete in two doubles and two singles matches.

The tournament runs until Friday and can be seen on Sky Sports.