Neil Robertson reached the venue levels of the British Open after recording a 4-1 victory over Andrew Pagett on Thursday in Leicester.
The Australian wasn’t at his free-scoring greatest however nonetheless had greater than sufficient in reserve to progress from the qualifying part on the Mattioli Enviornment.
It has been a robust begin to the 2024/25 snooker season for Robertson, who ended the final time period outdoors the highest 16 and with out a place within the World Championship draw.
The 42 year-old is undefeated to this point throughout this marketing campaign, a stretch that has included triumphs in all three of the latest qualifiers.
It’s going to present the previous world primary with the muse he requires to rebuild his profession and transfer again up the rankings.
Elsewhere, Hossein Vafaei and Stephen Maguire have been among the many different high-profile names to make it by to the final 64 of the British Open.
The pair secured respective 4-1 successes over Mostafa Dorgham and Jiang Jun.
Ricky Walden, in the meantime, was taken the space earlier than ousting Liu Hongyu in a deciding body.
There was disappointment for Jimmy White followers with the Whirlwind unable to again up his latest win within the Wuhan Open qualifiers.
Chris Totten produced a superb show with breaks of 87, 86, 64, and 63 seeing off the veteran in a 4-0 defeat.
Chris Wakelin additionally loved a whitewash win as he coasted to victory in opposition to Haydon Pinhey.
The British Open qualifiers proceed on Friday with one other batch of fixtures, together with these involving former rating occasion winners Stuart Bingham and Marco Fu.
The highest 16 seeds from the world rankings have had their matches on this spherical held over to the primary levels in Cheltenham subsequent month.
2024 British Open qualifying draw and schedule
Spherical of 128 (bo7)
Wednesday, July 31
Si Jiahui 4-2 David Lilley
Alexander Ursenbacher 1-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 1-4 Jamie Clarke
Iulian Boiko 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
Artiemijs Zizins 3-4 Allan Taylor
Mink Nutcharut 1-4 Liam Graham
Robbie McGuigan 0-4 Mark Davis
David Grace 4-2 Jack Lisowski
Ma Hailong 4-2 Jimmy Robertson
Noppon Saengkham 4-3 Joe Perry
Martin O’Donnell 4-1 Mitchell Mann
Michael Holt 4-0 Reanne Evans
Thursday, August 1
Xu Si 4-2 Ken Doherty
Fan Zhengyi 2-4 Zhou Yuelong
Ricky Walden 4-3 Liu Hongyu
Andrew Pagett 1-4 Neil Robertson
Xing Zihao 3-4 Mark Joyce
Jimmy White 0-4 Chris Totten
Mostafa Dorgham 1-4 Hossein Vafaei
Chris Wakelin 4-0 Haydon Pinhey
Amir Sarkhosh 3-4 Ashley Carty
Jiang Jun 1-4 Stephen Maguire
Duane Jones 4-2 Dominic Dale
Ahmed Elsayed 2-4 Anton Kazakov
Friday, August 2
10am UTC+1
Xiao Guodong vs Huang Jiahao
Kok Leong Lim vs Anthony Hamilton
Stuart Bingham vs He Guoqiang
1pm UTC+1
Joe O’Connor vs Stan Moody
Jamie Jones vs Yuan Sijun
Wang Yuchen vs Hammad Miah
4pm UTC+1
Joshua Thomand vs Marco Fu
Liam Pullen vs Lengthy Zehuang
Alfie Burden vs Andrew Higginson
7pm UTC+1
Antoni Kowalski vs Daniel Wells
Matthew Selt vs Ben Woollaston
Sunny Akani vs Daniel Womersely
Saturday, August 3
10am UTC+1
Simon Blackwell vs Bai Yulu
Cheung Ka Wai vs Kreishh Gurbaxani
Oliver Traces vs Lei Peifan
1pm UTC+1
Baipat Siripaporn vs Wu Yize
Lyu Haotian vs Anthony McGill
Scott Donaldson vs Tian Pengfei
4pm UTC+1
Graeme Dott vs Matthew Stevens
David Gilbert vs Dylan Emery
Dean Younger vs Haris Tahir
7pm UTC+1
Zak Surety vs Ben Mertens
Joshua Cooper vs Elliot Slessor
Jackson Web page vs Robbie Williams
Heldover Matches
Monday, September 23
Schedule TBC
Mark Williams vs Rory Thor
John Higgins vs Ross Muir
Ali Carter vs Révész Bulcsú
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Mark Selby vs Pang Junxu
Tom Ford vs Gong Chenzhi
Ryan Day vs Louis Heathcote
Judd Trump vs Robert Milkins
Mark Allen vs Gary Wilson
Zhang Anda vs Jordan Brown
Jak Jones vs Sanderson Lam
Luca Brecel vs Mohammed Shehab
Ding Junhui vs Aaron Hill
Barry Hawkins vs Liam Davies
Shaun Murphy vs Ian Burns
Kyren Wilson vs Julien Leclercq
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