Jack Lisowski, Jak Jones, and Chang Bingyu have been among the many gamers who made it by way of the British Open qualifiers this week in Leicester.
Lisowski has had a poor begin to the brand new marketing campaign however secured a much-needed victory along with his 4-1 outing in opposition to Scott Donaldson on the Mattioli Area.
Championship League Snooker winner Jones had a more durable time of it however managed to finally emerge with a 4-3 overcome Matthew Selt.
The quickly bettering Chang produced one other high-scoring show, in the meantime, to see off the problem of former world champion Stuart Bingham with a 4-0 rout.
Elsewhere, Liam Highfield compiled his first 147 break on the World Snooker Tour in a 4-1 defeat of seven-time rating occasion winner Stephen Maguire.
Amongst these additionally by way of to the final 64 are Ali Carter, Elliot Slessor, Zhang Anda, Matthew Stevens, and final yr’s British Open runner-up Anthony McGill.
Ladies’s star Bai Yulu progressed as nicely courtesy of a 4-1 victory over Sahil Nayyar.
Along with Bingham, a couple of different notable names failed of their makes an attempt to get past the preliminary part of the competitors.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, Gary Wilson, Zhou Yuelong, Ryan Day, Marco Fu, and Jimmy White all bowed out of the working.
The British Open adopts a random-draw format, which means the highest 16 seeds additionally enter within the spherical of 128.
The matches involving these gamers, nevertheless, have been held over to the venue phases, which occur from August 31 to September 6 on the Centaur in Cheltenham.
2026 British Open qualifiers: outcomes
Spherical of 128
Ashley Carty vs Si Jiahui (held over)
Liam Graham 4-3 Martin O’Donnell
Anthony McGill 4-3 Joe O’Connor
Wu Yize vs Liu Hongyu (held over)
Matthew Stevens 4-2 Antoni Kowalski
Artemijs Zizins 4-0 Michael Larkov
Ding Junhui vs Anton Kazakov (held over)
Jackson Web page 4-1 Fergal Quinn
Iulian Boiko 4-3 Luo Zetao
Xiao Guodong vs Jiang Jun (held over)
Mark Selby vs David Lilley (held over)
Judd Trump vs Dylan Emery (held over)
Zhang Anda 4-2 Alfie Burden
Joshua Thomond 4-3 Sam Craigie
Pang Junxu vs Neil Robertson (held over)
Ricky Walden 4-1 Gary Wilson
Yao Pengcheng 4-2 Ng On Yee
Jordan Brown 4-1 Liu Wenwei
Shaun Murphy vs Reanne Evans (held over)
Mahmoud El Hareedy 4-1 Lan Yuhao
Steven Hallworth 4-2 Marco Fu
Lengthy Zehuang 4-1 Leone Crowley
Oliver Brown vs Zhao Xintong (held over)
T Tirapongpaiboon 4-0 Gao Yang
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-3 Allan Taylor
Jack Lisowski 4-1 Scott Donaldson
Chatchapong Nasa 4-3 Ryan Day
Daniel Wells 4-2 Liam Pullen
Fan Zhengyi 4-1 Ben Woollaston
Florian Nuessle vs Kyren Wilson (held over)
Zak Surety 4-1 Huang Jiahao
Jamie Jones 4-1 Oliver Sykes
Xu Yichen 4-3 Oliver Traces
Jimmy Robertson 4-3 Zhou Yuelong
Phil O’Kane 4-2 Connor Benzey
Ben Mertens 4-1 Zhao Hanyang
David Grace 4-1 Michal Szubarczyk
Gong Chenzhi 4-3 Xu Si
Jak Jones 4-3 Matthew Selt
Duane Jones 4-0 Alexander Ursenbacher
Aaron Hill 4-2 Panchaya Channoi
Chang Bingyu 4-0 Stuart Bingham
Stan Moody 4-0 Paul Norris
Michael Holt 4-3 Cheung Ka Wai
Lyu Haotian 4-2 Yuan Sijun
Elliot Slessor 4-1 Julien Leclercq
Jamie Clarke 4-3 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ross Muir w/o Tom Ford
Mark Williams vs David Gilbert (held over)
John Higgins vs Hossein Vafaei (held over)
Noppon Saengkham 4-2 Ashley Hugill
Bai Yulu 4-1 Sahil Nayyar
Barry Hawkins vs Deng Haohui (held over)
Mitchell Mann 4-3 Louis Heathcote
Liu Yang 4-1 Andrew Higginson
Liam Highfield 4-1 Stephen Maguire
Liam Davies 4-2 Craig Steadman
He Guoqiang 4-0 Robbie Williams
Sean O’Sullivan 4-1 Jimmy White
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Mateusz Baranowski (held over)
Chris Wakelin vs Luca Brecel (held over)
Wang Xinbo vs Mark Allen (held over)
Lei Peifan 4-1 Hammad Miah
Ali Carter 4-0 Stuart Carrington
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