Matthew Stevens comfortably certified for the British Open with a routine 4-0 success over Victor Sarkis on Friday in Leicester.
The Welshman compiled breaks of 59 and 51 to advance to the venue levels of the season’s third rating match.
Stevens made the semi-finals of the British Open 20 years in the past and will probably be hoping for the same run when he competes on the Centaur in Cheltenham subsequent month.
Joe Perry crashed out, nonetheless, after the Englishman went down in a 4-2 reverse towards an bettering Sanderson Lam.
It has been a constructive begin to the 2023/24 snooker season for Lam, who ended the final time period with a defeat to Perry within the World Championship qualifiers.
Elsewhere, former Welsh Open champion Jordan Brown was overwhelmed by Daniel Wells in a 4-3 thriller.
Brown led 3-2, however his Welsh opponent completed the competition in exceptional vogue by compiling a brace of century breaks.
In the meantime, Chinese language duo Lyu Haotian and Wu Yize secured respective triumphs over David Lilley and Martin Gould.
Thailand’s Noppon Saengkham continued his high quality latest type with a 4-1 victory towards Xing Zihao.
Thor Chuan Leong repeated that three-frame profitable margin as he outplayed Alexander Ursenbacher.
Lastly, Zak Surety wrapped up the proceedings for the fifth day of motion on the Morningside Area with a 4-2 defeat of Michael White.
On Saturday, the British Open qualifiers conclude with the spotlight being the showdown between Stephen Maguire and Jimmy White.
There may be stay protection within the UK on WST’s Fb channel, in Europe on discovery+, and in different territories exterior China on Matchroom.Reside.
The highest 16 seeds within the random-draw British Open have their fixtures held over to the venue levels in September.
British Open qualifiers schedule and outcomes
Monday, August 14th
Outcomes
Lukas Kleckers 1-4 Si Jiahui
Ma Hailong 4-2 Ian Burns
Manasawin Phetmalaikul 1-4 Ishpreet Singh
Stephen Hendry 2-4 Muhammad Asif
James Cahill 1-4 Tom Ford
Louis Heathcote 2-4 Ben Mertens
Alfie Burden 2-4 Ken Doherty
Fergal O’Brien 4-1 Andres Petrov
Tuesday, August fifteenth
Outcomes
Hammad Miah 4-3 Zhou Yuelong
Robbie Williams 4-0 Pang Junxu
Oliver Brown 4-3 Himanshu Jain
Xu Si 4-0 Ricky Walden
Dominic Dale 4-1 Mark Joyce
Liam Pullen 0-4 Oliver Strains
Jenson Kendrick 1-4 David Grace
Adam Duffy 1-4 Scott Donaldson
Wednesday, August sixteenth
Outcomes
Graeme Dott 4-3 Zhang Anda
Baipat Siripaporn 1-4 Liu Hongyu
Rory McLeod 1-4 Tian Pengfei
Dylan Emery 1-4 Yuan Sijun
Andrew Higginson 1-4 Andy Hicks
Chris Wakelin 4-3 Andrew Pagett
Rod Lawler 4-2 Sam Craigie
Anthony Hamilton 4-1 Aaron Hill
Thursday, August seventeenth
Outcomes
Mohamed Ibrahim 4-3 Mink Nutcharut
Liam Graham 4-3 Cao Yupeng
Elliot Slessor 2-4 He Guoqiang
Andy Lee 1-4 Hossein Vafaei
David Gilbert 4-1 Ryan Thomerson
Jackson Web page 2-4 Ashley Carty
Stuart Carrington 3-4 Ross Muir
Ashley Hugill 4-2 Jak Jones
Friday, August 18th
Resutls
David Lilley 1-4 Lyu Haotian
Thor Chuan Leong 4-1 Alexander Ursenbacher
Wu Yize 4-2 Martin Gould
Noppon Saengkham 4-1 Xing Zihao
Victor Sarkis 0-4 Matthew Stevens
Jordan Brown 3-4 Daniel Wells
Joe Perry 2-4 Sanderson Lam
Michael White 2-4 Zak Surety
Saturday, August nineteenth
10am
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Reanne Evans
Mark Davis vs Fan Zhengyi
1pm
Xiao Guodong vs Marco Fu
Jamie Jones vs Mostafa Dorgham
4pm
Stuart Bingham vs John Astley
Matthew Selt vs Liam Highfield
7pm
Julien Leclercq vs Dean Younger
Stephen Maguire vs Jimmy White
Held over fixtures
(to be performed in Cheltenham)
Monday, September twenty fifth
Ryan Day vs Sean O’Sullivan
Luca Brecel vs Ding Junhui
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Jimmy Robertson
Mark Allen vs Anthony McGill
Judd Trump vs Anton Kazakov
Mark Selby vs Ben Woollaston
Neil Robertson vs Jamie Clarke
Shaun Murphy vs Rebecca Kenna
Kyren Wilson vs Martin O’Donnell
Mark Williams vs Peng Yisong
John Higgins vs Lengthy Zehuang
Ali Carter vs Allan Taylor
Robert Milkins vs Jiang Jun
Jack Lisowski vs Joe O’Connor
Gary Wilson vs Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Barry Hawkins vs Stan Moody
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