The qualifiers for the World Open concluded on Sunday on the Ponds Forge Worldwide Sports activities Centre in Sheffield.
It was the ultimate piece of motion on the baize for 2024, with the likes of final week’s Snooker Championship winner Mark Allen taking part.
The Northern Irishman was examined after making the journey again from Saudi Arabia on the weekend, however he ultimately emerged with a dramatic 5-4 overcome Rory Thor.
Mark Selby was equally taken the gap earlier than overcoming Latvian teenager Artemijs Zizins in a deciding body.
There have been wins elsewhere for the likes of Luca Brecel, Shaun Murphy, John Higgins, and Barry Hawkins.
Latest Scottish Open champion Lei Peifan, in the meantime, mounted a exceptional comeback from 4-0 behind to disclaim the struggling Anthony Hamilton a ticket to Yushan.
A couple of high-profile names exited on the opening hurdle with Mark Williams and Si Jiahui notable losers in opposition to Sunny Akani and Zak Surety respectively.
World primary Judd Trump and world champion Kyren Wilson have been amongst a small group of gamers who had their round-of-128 matches deferred to the venue phases.
The matches involving crowd favourites Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ding Junhui, who misplaced to Trump in final season’s World Open ultimate, have been additionally held over.
The 2025 World Open runs from February twenty fourth to March 2nd.
World Open draw
Spherical of 128
Judd Trump vs Xing Zihao (held over)
Lengthy Zehuang 5-2 Mitchell Mann
Alfie Burden 5-4 Stephen Maguire
Joe O’Connor 5-3 Alexander Ursenbacher
Antoni Kowalski 5-1 Paul Deaville
Matthew Stevens 5-2 David Grace
Michael Holt w/o Neil Robertson
Martin O’Donnell 5-4 Bulcsu Revesz
Yuan Sijun 5-0 Haydon Pinhey
Hossein Vafaei 5-3 Ben Mertens
Joe Perry 5-0 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Ding Junhui vs Jiang Jun (held over)
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-3 Andrew Higginson
Chris Totten 5-1 Stuart Bingham
Sanderson Lam vs Wildcard (held over)
Shaun Murphy 5-3 Mostafa Dorgham
Mark Allen 5-4 Rory Thor
David Lilley vs Wildcard (held over)
Wu Yize 5-0 Robbie McGuigan
Jackson Web page 5-1 Ashley Carty
Ali Carter 5-4 Joshua Thomand
He Guoqiang 5-0 Huang Jiahao
Jack Lisowski 5-3 Julien Leclercq
Scott Donaldson vs Wildcard (held over)
Ben Woollaston 5-2 Simon Blackwell
Amir Sarkhosh 5-3 David Gilbert
Jamie Jones 5-3 Liam Pullen
Barry Hawkins 5-1 Cheung Ka Wai
Ricky Walden 5-0 Hatem Yassen
Ryan Day 5-2 Marco Fu
Louis Heathcote 5-1 Jamie Clarke
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Stuart Carrington (held over)
Mark Selby 5-4 Artemijs Zizins
Liu Hongyu 5-0 Baipat Siripaporn
Elliot Slessor 5-1 Jonas Luz
Lyu Haotian 5-2 Oliver Traces
Zak Surety 5-0 Si Jiahui
Jordan Brown 5-1 Liam Graham
Xiao Guodong 5-0 Dylan Emery
Duane Jones 5-3 Fan Zhengyi
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 5-4 Dominic Dale
Tom Ford 5-1 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Daniel Wells 5-2 Ross Muir
Gary Wilson 5-1 Gong Chenzhi
Jimmy Robertson 5-3 Haris Tahir
Noppon Saengkham 5-1 Dean Younger
Aaron Hill 5-0 Mink Nutcharut
Sunny Akani 5-2 Mark Williams
Luca Brecel 5-3 Iulian Boiko
Tian Pengfei 5-1 Bai Yulu
Pang Junxu 5-2 Ken Doherty
Anthony McGill 5-0 Reanne Evans
Zhang Anda vs Stan Moody (heldover)
Graeme Dott 5-1 Jimmy White
Robert Milkins 5-2 Farakh Ajaib
Xu Si vs Wildcard (held over)
Robbie Williams 5-4 Ian Burns
Jak Jones 5-0 Allan Taylor
Mark Davis 5-4 Liam Davies
John Higgins 5-4 Wang Yuchen
Manasawin Phetmalaikul 5-2 Matthew Selt
Zhou Yuelong 5-1 Ma Hailong
Lei Peifan 5-4 Anthony Hamilton
Kyren Wilson vs Hammad Miah (held over)
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