Luca Brecel secured a morale-boosting victory to achieve the 2026 Northern Eire Open because the qualifiers for the occasion ended on Wednesday in Leicester.
Brecel is languishing down close to the highest 64 cut-off level for tour survival on the provisional end-of-season snooker rankings.
The 2023 world champion hadn’t certified for any rating occasions this season, however that lastly modified as he overcame Mitchell Mann 4-1 to securely safe his spot in Belfast.
Among the many others to make it by means of the preliminary part have been skilled execs Tom Ford, Ricky Walden, Matthew Stevens, and Ryan Day.
There was additionally a well timed triumph for Jordan Brown, who like Brecel could be sucked right into a tour survival scrap come the tip of the marketing campaign.
Antrim’s Brown certified for his dwelling match with a 4-0 defeat of Julien Leclercq.
There have been wins elsewhere for Aaron Hill, Matthew Selt, Michael Holt, and up to date British Open semi-finalist Liam Highfield.
Legend Jimmy White gained his first-round match in opposition to Sean O’Sullivan however was in the end denied a return to the Waterfront Corridor by Xu Si.
Marco Fu, Yuan Sijun, Stan Moody, and Jackson Web page have been among the many others who did not qualify.
The 32 qualifiers be a part of the highest 32 seeds from the world rankings who’re routinely within the draw on the last-64 level, with the match correct operating from October 18 to 25.
The total record of outcomes from the 2026 Northern Eire Open qualifiers is under.
2026 Northern Eire Open qualifiers: outcomes
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Huang Jiahao 4-1 Reanne Evans
Liu Yang 4-1 Connor Benzey
Wang Xinbo 4-1 Liam Graham
Mateusz Baranowski w/o Gong Chenzhi
Ross Muir 4-1 Andrew Higginson
Iulian Boiko 4-3 Luo Zetao
Alfie Burden 4-1 Fergal Quinn
Liam Davies 4-3 Hammad Miah
Louis Heathcote 4-2 Craig Steadman
Antoni Kowalski 4-1 Oliver Brown
Sam Craigie 4-1 Anton Kazakov
Jimmy White 4-1 Sean O’Sullivan
Zhao Hanyang 4-2 Mahmoud El Hareedy
Xu Yichen 4-2 Mina Awad
Marco Fu 4-0 Joel Connolly
Ian Burns 4-0 Stuart Carrington
Gao Yang 4-0 Panchaya Channoi
Oliver Sykes 4-0 Alexander Ursenbacher
Cheung Ka Wai 4-3 Artemijs Zizins
Yao Pengcheng 4-1 Bai Yulu
Liam Pullen 4-0 Paul Norris
Michael Larkov 4-1 Sahil Nayyar
Mitchell Mann 4-3 Liu Wenwei
Chatchapong Nasa 4-1 Darragh Gallagher
Liam Highfield 4-1 Phil O’Kane
David Grace 4-2 Deng Haohui
Dylan Emery 4-0 Jamie Clarke
Ashley Hugill 4-2 Lan Yuhao
Onyee Ng 4-3 Florian Nuessle
Julien Leclercq 4-1 Michal Szubarczyk
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 4-1 Steven Hallworth
Leone Crowley 4-1 Ashley Carty
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Huang Jiahao 4-2 Liu Hongyu
Anthony McGill 4-1 Liu Yang
Wang Xinbo 4-1 David Lilley
Mateusz Baranowski 4-1 Yuan Sijun
Aaron Hill 4-3 Ross Muir
Ben Mertens 4-0 Iulian Boiko
Alfie Burden 4-1 Jimmy Robertson
Liam Davies 4-1 Fan Zhengyi
Louis Heathcote 4-2 Lyu Haotian
Matthew Selt 4-0 Antoni Kowalski
Sam Craigie 4-1 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Xu Si 4-2 Jimmy White
He Guoqiang 4-3 Zhao Hanyang
Jamie Jones 4-2 Xu Yichen
Matthew Stevens 4-1 Marco Fu
Ricky Walden 4-3 Ian Burns
Gao Yang 4-2 Lengthy Zehuang
Oliver Sykes 4-3 Zak Surety
Cheung Ka Wai 4-3 Oliver Strains
Yao Pengcheng 4-0 Stan Moody
Liam Pullen 4-0 Ben Woollaston
Robbie Williams 4-1 Michael Larkov
Luca Brecel 4-1 Mitchell Mann
Martin O’Donnell 4-1 Chatchapong Nasa
Liam Highfield 4-1 Jiang Jun
Tom Ford 4-0 David Grace
Daniel Wells 4-0 Dylan Emery
Ryan Day 4-2 Ashley Hugill
Michael Holt 4-0 Onyee Ng
Jordan Brown 4-0 Julien Leclercq
T Tirapongpaiboon 4-2 Jackson Web page
Scott Donaldson 4-2 Leone Crowley
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