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Jimmy White defeated in UK Championship qualifiers

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Jimmy White bowed out of the 2024 UK Championship after struggling a 6-4 defeat to Ross Muir within the qualifiers on Monday.

The Whirlwind, who beat Paul Deaville within the first spherical of qualifying in Leicester, confronted an up-hill battle after dropping 5 out of the opening six frames.

Breaks of 125, 103, 75, and 64 introduced Muir to inside a body of victory, however the Scot subsequently struggled to recover from the successful line.

White, the UK champion all the best way again in 1992, gave his followers a glimmer of hope when he reeled off three frames on the spin to cut back the arrears to only one once more.

However the 62 year-old couldn’t pressure a deciding body, with Muir lastly in a position to clinch the body he wanted to succeed in the third spherical.

Among the many others to advance to the penultimate spherical of the preliminary competitors have been Zhao Xintong and Marco Fu.

Zhao, invited to take part on the again of his current success on the newbie Q Tour, comfortably overcame the problem of fellow Chinese language cueist Jiang Jun.

The 27 year-old is a few wins away from returning to the scene of his well-known UK triumph on the Barbican Centre in 2021.

Former finalist Fu progressed courtesy of a routine 6-1 overcome Amir Sarkhosh, whereas 2003 UK champion Matthew Stevens prolonged his keep within the match as nicely.

It was one other good outing for a number of among the many Chinese language contingent on the principle tour, with Liu Hongyu, Lei Peifan, Xing Zihao and final season’s Rookie of the Yr He Guoqiang shifting ahead.

The ever-improving Stan Moody, veterans Joe Perry and Michael Holt, and Irishman Aaron Hill additionally reached the third spherical of 4 on the Mattioli Area.

The third day’s night session noticed the penultimate stage start and 2004 UK champion Stephen Maguire managing to beat Latvia’s Artemijs Zizins.

Maguire compiled a break of 119 in reaching the ultimate spherical, taking his profession tally of UK Championship centuries to 100 – solely the third participant to realize the feat.

Former Masters and world champion Stuart Bingham started his quest to raise the Triple Crown trophy absent from his assortment with a 6-3 win over Oliver Sykes.

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Jack Lisowski blended the erratic with the elegant in his 6-4 victory over Rory Thor. Photograph credit score: WST

There have been victories elsewhere for Jack Lisowski over Rory Thor and Jak Jones in opposition to Ian Burns, whereas Jackson Web page, Fan Zhengyi, Elliot Slessor, and Jimmy Robertson emerged unscathed too.

The remaining third-round fixtures happen on Tuesday with three-time former UK champion Neil Robertson getting into the fray.

The ultimate spherical on Wednesday and Thursday will then decide the 16 UK Championship qualifiers.


2024 UK Championship qualifiers

Monday, November 18th

Outcomes (Spherical 2)
Zhao Xintong 6-2 Jiang Jun
Joe Perry 6-2 Hatem Yassen
Marco Fu 6-1 Amir Sarkhosh
Lei Peifan 6-2 Hammad Miah
Julien Leclercq 6-4 Graeme Dott
Xing Zihao 6-4 Mitchell Mann
Aaron Hill 6-5 Cheung Ka Wai
Antoni Kowalski 6-3 Anthony Hamilton

He Guoqiang 6-1 Robbie McGuigan
Oliver Sykes 6-3 Dylan Emery
Liu Hongyu 6-1 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Ross Muir 6-4 Jimmy White
Matthew Stevens 6-4 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Michael Holt 6-5 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Stan Moody 6-3 Duane Jones
Chris Totten 6-5 Tian Pengfei

Outcomes (Spherical 3)
Fan Zhengyi 6-2 Florian Nüßle
Jack Lisowskio 6-4 Rory Thor
Stephen Maguire 6-3 Artemijs Zizins
Jak Jones 6-2 Ian Burns
Stuart Bingham 6-3 Oliver Sykes
Jackson Web page 6-4 Jamie Clarke
Elliot Slessor 6-3 Lengthy Zehuang
Jimmy Robertson 6-5 Daniel Wells

Tuesday, November nineteenth

Schedule (Spherical 3)

9:30am UTC

Scott Donaldson vs Bai Yulu
Ryan Day vs Louis Heathcote
Yuan Sijun vs Sanderson Lam
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs David Lilley
Wu Yize vs Ashley Carty
Robbie Williams vs Wang Yuchen
Barry Hawkins vs Alfie Burden
Joe O’Connor vs Michael Holt

2:30pm UTC
Tom Ford vs Lei Peifan
Ben Woollaston vs Joe Perry
Zhou Yuelong vs Marco Fu
Matthew Selt vs Aaron Hill
Ricky Walden vs Antoni Kowalski
Noppon Saengkham vs Zhao Xintong
Dominic Dale vs Julien Leclercq
David Gilbert vs Xing Zihao

7:30pm UTC
Hossein Vafaei vs Ma Hailong
Robert Milkins vs Ross Muir
Xu Si vs Chris Totten
Pang Junxu vs Stan Moody
Anthony McGill vs He Guoqiang
Lyu Haotian vs Liu Hongyu
Martin O’Donnell vs Matthew Stevens
Neil Robertson vs Oliver Strains

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


Learn how to watch the UK Championship qualifiers

Watch worldwide on WST’s Fb or YouTube channels (exterior China). You may as well watch dwell on discovery+ all through Europe together with the UK and Eire.

Featured photograph credit score: WST

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