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Bai Yulu prolonged her progress on the 2024 UK Championship qualifiers with an outstanding 6-4 conquer Jamie Jones on Sunday in Leicester.

The reigning girls’s world champion had been struggling to make an impression on the principle tour in what’s her rookie season as an expert.

However a breakthrough victory over Farakh Ajaib within the opening spherical of this qualifying competitors has spurred her on, and he or she instantly backed it up with an much more spectacular triumph within the second spherical.

Bai received the opening two frames in opposition to Jones, a former World Championship quarter-finalist, and responded tremendously to shedding the next three.

Contributions of 58, 56, and 68 noticed her transfer 5-3 in entrance, and although Jones lowered the arrears to 1 once more, the younger Chinese language cuiest sealed the success within the tenth body.

The 21 year-old, who has been extensively thought to be probably the most proficient of the rising younger stars from the ladies’s scene, will face Scott Donaldson in spherical three.

Bai Yulu is midway to securing what could be an unimaginable berth on the venue phases of this yr’s UK Championship in York.

The reigning girls’s UK champion wants two extra victories within the qualifiers to make an look on the Barbican Centre subsequent week.

It was one other busy day of motion on the Mattioli Area with loads of different attention-grabbing leads to the second spherical.

Amateurs Florian Nüßle and Oliver Sykes upset main-tour opposition for the second day in a row after recording respective triumphs over Jordan Brown and Stuart Carrington.

Latvian teenager Artemijs Zizins additionally defied his rookie standing to oust former UK Championship semi-finalist David Grace.

Among the many others to succeed in the penultimate spherical have been Jamie Clarke, Daniel Wells, Lengthy Zehuang, and Alfie Burden.

Jimmy White first participated in a UK Championship in 1981. Picture credit score: WST

Earlier on day two, the primary spherical of qualifying concluded with the likes of Jimmy White and Michael Holt rising unscathed.

White, the UK champion all the best way again in 1992, beat Paul Deaville 6-2 with the assistance of 78 and 55 breaks.

The 62 year-old memorably went all the best way from the primary qualifying spherical to succeed in the Barbican in 2022 and can face Ross Muir subsequent.

Former Shoot Out king Holt ousted Steven Hallworth whereas invited novice Dylan Emery recorded a 6-2 defeat of veteran Andrew Higginson.

Most of the identical gamers will probably be taking part once more on Monday, with the remaining second spherical clashes to be instantly adopted by the beginning of the third spherical.

The latter is the place the best seeds within the 2024 UK Championship qualifiers will enter the fray.

Among the many larger names enjoying on Monday are Jack Lisowski, Jak Jones, Stuart Bingham, and 2004 UK champion Stephen Maguire.


2024 UK Championship qualifiers

Saturday, November sixteenth

Outcomes (Spherical 1)
Dylan Emery 6-2 Andrew Higginson
Jimmy White 6-2 Paul Deaville
Robbie McGuigan 6-3 Habib Subah Humood
Michael Holt 6-3 Steven Hallworth
Kreishh Gurbaxani 6-4 Allan Taylor
Duane Jones 6-3 Ryan Thomerson
Chris Totten Ryan Davies
Manasawin Phetmalaikul 6-4 Andres Petrov

Outcomes (Spherical 2)
Florian Nüßle 6-2 Jordan Brown
Artemijs Zizins 6-3 David Grace
Ian Burns 6-0 Gong Chenzhi
Ma Hailon 6-3 Liam Pullen
Lengthy Zehuang 6-3 Liam Graham
Oliver Sykes 6-3 Stuart Carrington
Louis Heathcote 6-0 Mohammed Shehab
David Lilley 6-2 Liam Davies

Rory Thor 6-4 Zak Surety
Sanderson Lam 6-3 Haydon Pinhey
Ashley Carty 6-4 Iulian Boiko
Jamie Clarke 6-4 Mostafa Dorgham
Bai Yulu 6-4 Jamie Jones
Daniel Wells 6-4 Haris Tahir
Alfie Burden 6-4 Alexander Ursenbacher
Wang Yuchen 6-5 Mark Davis

Monday, November 18th

Schedule (Spherical 2)

9:30am UTC

Hammad Miah vs Lei Peifan
Joe Perry vs Hatem Yassen
Marco Fu vs Amir Sarkhosh
Aaron Hill vs Cheung Ka Wai
Anthony Hamilton vs Antoni Kowalski
Jiang Jun vs Zhao Xintong
Graeme Dott vs Julien Leclercq
Xing Zihao vs Mitchell Mann

2:30pm UTC
Ross Muir vs Jimmy White
Tian Pengfei vs Chris Totten
Stan Moody vs Duane Jones
He Guoqiang vs Robbie McGuigan
Liu Hongyu vs Kreishh Gurbaxani
Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Michael Holt
Matthew Stevens vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Oliver Strains vs Dylan Emery

Schedule (Spherical 3)

7:30pm UTC
Jak Jones vs Ian Burns
Fan Zhengyi vs Florian Nüßle
Elliot Slessor vs Lengthy Zehuang
Stephen Maguire vs Artemijs Zizins
Jimmy Robertson vs Daniel Wells
Stuart Bingham vs Oliver Sykes
Jackson Web page vs Jamie Clarke
Jack Lisowski vs Rory Thor

Click on right here to view the total draw
(snooker.org)


Methods to watch the UK Championship qualifiers

Watch worldwide on WST’s Fb or YouTube channels (outdoors China). It’s also possible to watch stay on discovery+ all through Europe together with the UK and Eire.

Featured picture credit score: WWS

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