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Stuart Bingham and Marco Fu qualify for Cheltenham

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Stuart Bingham and Marco Fu have been among the many gamers who certified for the venue levels of the British Open on Friday.

Bingham squandered a 3-0 lead towards He Guoqiang – final season’s Rookie of the Yr – however ultimately got here by means of in a deciding body.

Fu compiled a excessive break of 88 as he overcame novice top-up Joshua Thomand on the Mattioli Area in Leicester.

The 2 skilled rivals, who boast 9 rating titles between them, can be concerned when the random draw for the spherical of 64 is carried out.

There was an attention-grabbing set of outcomes elsewhere as a number of lower-ranked gamers superior within the competitors.

Lim Kok Leong secured his maiden victory as an expert participant on the World Snooker Tour courtesy of a 4-1 defeat of Anthony Hamilton.

The Asia & Oceania Q Faculty graduate from Malaysia, aged 29, compiled breaks of 51 and 50 to see off the veteran former German Masters champion.

Fellow new professional Antoni Kowalski additionally emerged with a spot on the venue levels in Cheltenham subsequent month after beating Daniel Wells 4-1.

Newbie Anton Kazakov made essentially the most of his call-up to interchange Martin Gould, beating struggling American Ahmed Aly Elsayed.

Teenager Stan Moody backed up his current victory over Matthew Stevens within the Wuhan Open qualifiers with one other fantastic outcome.

On this event, the 17 year-old outplayed former rating occasion runner-up Joe O’Connor with runs of 100, 79, and 52.

Sunny Akani’s profitable return to the professional scene additionally continued with a routine 4-0 bagel of Daniel Womersley.

The latter wanted all seven frames to beat Andrew Higginson, whereas Ben Woollaston edged Matthew Selt by the identical slender margin.

Chinese language duo Xiao Guodong and Yuan Sijun have been the opposite two cuiests to advance on what was the penultimate day of motion in Leicester.

Saturday will see the remaining matches happen, with David Gilbert and Anthony McGill amongst these getting into the fray.

There’s additionally an intriguing tie between Graeme Dott and Matthew Stevens to sit up for.

The primary levels of the British Open run from September 23-29 on the Centaur in Cheltenham.


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
Xiao Guodong 4-2 Huang Jiahao
Kok Leong Lim 4-1 Anthony Hamilton
Stuart Bingham 4-3 He Guoqiang

Joe O’Connor 2-4 Stan Moody
Jamie Jones 2-4 Yuan Sijun
Wang Yuchen 2-4 Hammad Miah

Joshua Thomand 1-4 Marco Fu
Liam Pullen 0-4 Lengthy Zehuang
Alfie Burden 4-3 Andrew Higginson

Antoni Kowalski 4-1 Daniel Wells
Matthew Selt 3-4 Ben Woollaston
Sunny Akani 4-0 Daniel Womersely

Saturday, August 3

10am UTC+1
Simon Blackwell vs Bai Yulu
Cheung Ka Wai vs Kreishh Gurbaxani
Oliver Strains 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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