The Northern Eire Open qualifiers received underneath approach on Saturday with Jimmy White among the many early-round winners in Sheffield.
The second House Nations collection occasion of the marketing campaign will happen in the direction of the tip of October on the Waterfront Corridor in Belfast.
In a change to this season’s House Nations collection, solely the highest 32 seeds from the world rankings checklist are assured to function on the venue phases.
The remaining 32 spots in the principle draw are being decided by a two-day qualifying competitors at Ponds Forge in Sheffield this weekend.
The rivals ranked from 65 to 128 start in spherical one with the winners advancing to play these ranked from 33 to 64 in Sunday’s second spherical.
Jimmy White moved a step nearer to sealing a berth in the principle draw with a 4-3 defeat of newbie top-up Paul Deaville.
The ten-time rating occasion winner compiled breaks of 77 and 69 to see off the problem of the younger Englishman and arrange a conflict with Jackson Web page.
White, nonetheless competing strongly on the age of 62, could have further motivation to qualify for the Northern Eire Open with the trophy for this occasion named in honour of his late nice good friend Alex Higgins.
A busy day of motion noticed a number of different gamers transfer to inside a win of reaching the final 64 and the TV phases.
Former Shoot Out champion Michael Holt orchestrated a cushty 4-0 overcome Reanne Evans whereas current English Open semi-finalist Ishpreet Singh Chadha beat Florian Nuessle 4-1.
One of many standout outcomes noticed Hungarian teenager Bulcsu Revesz proceed his robust begin to life on the principle tour by combating again from 3-0 right down to deny Iulian Boiko in a decider.
Among the many others to make it via had been fellow rookies Liam Davies, Antoni Kowalski, and Gong Chenzhi.
For the second week in a row, Rory Thor beat Mark Joyce 4-3 whereas there have been related one-frame victories for Chris Totten, Lengthy Zehuang, Louis Heathcote, Haris Tahir, Jiang Jun, Lei Peifan, Liam Graham, and Alfie Burden.
The remaining fixtures within the Northern Eire Open qualifiers happen on Sunday.
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Northern Eire Open qualifiers
Spherical of 128 (bo7)
Outcomes
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-1 Florian Nuessle
Michael Holt 4-0 Reanne Evans
Liam Pullen 4-1 Mink Nutcharut
Gong Chenzhi 4-0 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Duane Jones 4-2 Artemijs Zizins
Alfie Burden 4-3 Mitchell Mann
Haris Tahir 4-3 Zak Surety
Jiang Jun 4-3 Huang Jiahao
Louis Heathcote 4-3 Anton Kazakov
Amir Sarkhosh 4-2 Cheung Ka Wai
Antoni Kowalski 4-3 Hammad Miah
Liam Davies 4-2 Dean Younger
Lei Peifan 4-3 Jamie Gardiner
Rory Thor 4-3 Mark Joyce
Chris Totten 4-3 Robbie McGuigan
Lengthy Zehuang 4-3 Haydon Pinhey
Simon Blackwell 4-3 Stuart Carrington
Oliver Traces vs Joshua Cooper (held over)
Kreishh Gurbaxani 4-1 Andrew Higginson
Wang Yuchen 4-1 Andrew Pagett
Jimmy White 4-3 Paul Deaville
Joel Connolly 4-3 Ian Burns
Liam Graham 4-3 Baipat Siripaporn
Manasawin Phetmalaikul 4-3 Ross Muir
Xing Zihao w/o Ken Doherty
Daniel Womersley 4-1 Ben Mertens
Ma Hailong 4-0 Allan Taylor
Bulcsu Revesz 4-3 Iulian Boiko
Stan Moody 4-2 Dylan Emery
Alexander Ursenbacher 4-1 Mostafa Dorgham
Farakh Ajaib 4-3 Julien Leclercq
Bai Yulu w/o Marco Fu
Spherical of 96 (bo7)
Ashley Carty vs Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Matthew Selt vs Michael Holt
Fan Zhengyi vs Liam Pullen
Matthew Stevens vs Gong Chenzhi
Scott Donaldson vs Duane Jones
Mark Davis vs Alfie Burden
Dominic Dale vs Haris Tahir
David Lilley vs Jiang Jun
Aaron Hill vs Louis Heathcote
Jimmy Robertson vs Amir Sarkhosh
Tian Pengfei vs Antoni Kowalski
Jordan Brown vs Liam Davies
Jamie Jones vs Lei Peifan
Daniel Wells vs Rory Thor
Elliot Slessor vs Chris Tottne
Sanderson Lam vs Lengthy Zehuang
Liu Hongyu vs Simon Blackwell
Ricky Walden vs Traces/Cooper (held over)
Graeme Dott vs Kreishh Gurbaxani
Joe Perry vs Wang Yuchen
Jackson Web page vs Jimmy White
Martin O’Donnell vs Joel Connolly
Yuan Sijun vs Liam Graham
He Guoqiang vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Jamie Clarke vs Xing Zihao
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Daniel Womersley
Anthony Hamilton vs Ma Hailong
Robbie Williams vs Bulcsu Revesz
Ben Woollaston vs Stan Moody
Xu Si vs Alexander Ursenbacher
Anthony McGill vs Farakh Ajaib
David Grace vs Bai Yulu
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