Judd Trump, Mark Allen, Mark Selby, and John Higgins had been among the many star names to make it by means of the Worldwide Championship qualifiers this week.
The preliminary section of the Chinese language rating occasion came about at Ponds Forge in Sheffield over the previous couple of days.
World primary Trump comfortably reached the spherical of 64 and the venue levels of the competitors with a snug 6-1 defeat of Chris Totten.
Allen, who started the season in high spot within the rankings earlier than being usurped by Trump, scored a brace of century breaks to beat Farakh Ajaib 6-3.
Selby and Higgins weren’t fatigued by their current escapades on the British Open, the place the previous captured the Clive Everton Trophy on the expense of the Scot in Sunday’s remaining.
Selby fired in a succession of huge breaks to beat rookie Artemijs Zizins whereas Higgins outplayed veteran former world champion Ken Doherty.
Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, and Neil Robertson had been among the many different heavy hitters who safely booked their journeys again to Asia.
There have been some notable defeats, nonetheless, with Luca Brecel’s struggles persevering with following a 6-3 reverse to Jiang Jun.
Tom Ford is arguably having an excellent worse marketing campaign than the Belgian Bullet, and the Englishman’s high 16 membership is in jeopardy after shedding early once more – this time to up-and-coming expertise Stan Moody.
Elsewhere, World Championship runner-up Jak Jones suffered a shock 6-5 loss to novice top-up Simon Blackwell.
The story of the three-day Worldwide Championship qualifiers, although, was undoubtedly Thepchaiya Un-Nooh’s botched 147 try.
For the third time in his profession, the Thai competitor acquired himself into the place to make a most break solely to agonisingly miss the ultimate black.
Comfort for Un-Nooh was the truth that he was capable of put that disappointment behind him and win his match with Lei Peifan 6-4.
A number of round-of-128 fixtures had been held over to the venue levels, together with the matches involving defending champion Zhang Anda and world champion Kyren Wilson.
Ronnie O’Sullivan’s scheduled outing with Mink Nutcharut and a number of other ties with Chinese language gamers had been additionally deferred.
The Worldwide Championship takes place from November 3-10 in Nanjing.
Worldwide Championship qualifiers
Spherical of 128
Outcomes
Zhang Anda vs Ishpreet Singh Chadha (held over)
David Grace vs Wildcard (held over)
Haydon Pinhey 6-2 Stephen Maguire
Lyu Haotian 6-5 Marco Fu
Simon Blackwell 6-5 Jak Jones
Matthew Stevens 6-0 Huang Jiahao
John Higgins 6-1 Ken Doherty
Ben Woollaston 6-4 Duane Jones
Zak Surety 6-4 Dominic Dale
Chris Wakelin 6-2 Cheung Ka Wai
Anthony Hamilton 6-0 Jimmy White
Shaun Murphy 6-4 Louis Heathcote
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 6-4 Lei Peifan
Stuart Bingham 6-0 Liam Graham
Mark Davis 6-1 Baipat Siripaporn
Mark Williams 6-0 Haris Tahir
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Mink Nutcharut (held over)
He Guoqiang 6-1 Antoni Kowalski
Pang Junxu 6-1 Iulian Boiko
Elliot Slessor 6-3 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Ali Carter vs Wildcard (held over)
Ross Muir 6-2 Daniel Wells
David Gilbert 6-2 Bai Yulu
Jackson Web page 6-2 Oliver Traces
Gong Chenzhi 6-4 Jordan Brown
Jack Lisowski 6-5 Bulcsu Revesz
Ben Mertens 6-4 Graeme Dott
Si Jiahui vs Andrew Pagett (held over)
Ricky Walden 6-4 Xing Zihao
Xiao Guodong 6-3 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Aaron Hill 6-2 Liam Pullen
Mark Allen 6-3 Farakh Ajaib
Judd Trump 6-1 Chris Totten
Sanderson Lam 6-5 Alexander Ursenbacher
Joe O’Connor 6-1 Robbie McGuigan
Anthony McGill 6-1 Ashley Carty
Stan Moody 6-2 Tom Ford
Xu Si 6-5 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Ryan Day 6-5 Ma Hailong
Daniel Womersley 6-2 Liam Davies
Robbie Williams 6-3 Allan Taylor
Stuart Carringotn 6-4 Robert Milkins
Dean Younger 6-5 Tian Penfei
Gary Wilson 6-3 Hammad Miah
Jimmy Robertson 6-5 Sunny Akani
Noppon Saengkham vs Wildcard
Jamie Clarke 6-3 Mostafa Dorgham
Mark Selby 6-3 Artemijs Zizins
Jiang Jun 6-3 Luca Brecel
Amir Sarkhosh 6-3 David Lilley
Michael Holt 6-5 Zhou Yuelong
Yuan Sijun 6-1 Ian Burns
Ding Junhui vs Reanne Evans (held over)
Martin O’Donnell 6-2 Julien Leclercq
Hossein Vafaei vs Wildcard (held over)
Dylan Emery 6-3 Scott Donaldson
Joe Perry 6-1 Jonas Luz
Barry Hawkins 6-1 Joshua Thomand
Fan Zhengyi 6-3 Lengthy Zehuang
Neil Robertson 6-1 Alfie Burden
Andrew Higginson 6-5 Matthew Selt
Wu Yize 6-4 Wang Yuchen
Liu Hongyu 6-5 Rory Thor
Kyren Wilson vs Mitchell Mann (held over)
Click on right here to view the complete Worldwide Championship draw
(snooker.org)
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