Defending champion Stephen Maguire was eradicated from the 2026 version of Championship League Snooker on Saturday in Leicester.
The Scot, who received his seventh profession rating title with victory over Joe O’Connor in final 12 months’s closing, completed backside of Group C as Stage Two continued on the Mattioli Area.
A good group ensured that there have been loads of permutations heading into the third and final spherical of fixtures.
Maguire, certainly, nonetheless had an opportunity to progress having drawn his opening two encounters in opposition to Stan Moody and Dylan Emery.
However the former world quantity two misplaced 3-1 Gary Wilson, with Emery’s 3-0 defeat of Stan Moody proving decisive in sending the Welshman by.
It marks the primary time that 25 year-old Emery will contest the last-eight stage of a rating occasion on the primary tour.
Noppon Saengkham, in the meantime, emerged from Group D with an unbeaten document of two wins and a draw.
After beating Scott Donaldson in his preliminary match, the Thai secured a 2-2 draw with Ukrainian Iulian Boiki.
Each he and closing opponent Zhou Yuelong had a chance to qualify for the final group section, nevertheless it was Saengkham who seized the second with a 3-1 success to complete on high.
Saengkham represents the most effective gamers to by no means win a rating occasion, and the 33 year-old has given himself an enormous probability to interrupt that duck right here.
Emery and Saengkham be part of Hossein Vafaei and Lei Peifan who made it by Teams A and B on Friday.
There will probably be a relaxation day on Sunday earlier than the motion resumes on Monday with Teams E and F.
Chris Wakelin, the one member from the highest 16 left within the operating, headlines Group E alongside He Guoqiang and former champions Ali Carter and David Gilbert.
Quickly rising star Chang Bingyu has Marco Fu, Jak Jones, and Mark Joyce for firm in Group F.
Championship League Snooker represents the opening rating occasion of the fledgling 2026/27 snooker season.
The general winner on July fifteenth will take house £33,000 value of prize cash and rating factors, plus a ticket to the profitable Champion of Champions invitational later this 12 months.
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Saturday, July 11
Group C Outcomes
Gary Wilson 2-2 Dylan Emery
Stephen Maguire 2-2 Stan Moody
Stan Moody 3-1 Gary Wilson
Stephen Maguire 2-2 Dylan Emery
Dylan Emery 3-0 Stan Moody
Gary Wilson 3-1 Stephen Maguire
Group C Desk
1. Dylan Emery – 5 factors
2. Gary Wilson – 4 factors
3. Stan Moody – 4 factors
4. Stephen Maguire – 2 factors
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Group D Outcomes
Zhou Yuelong 3-1 Iulian Boiko
Noppon Saengkham 3-1 Scott Donaldson
Noppon Saengkham 2-2 Iulian Boiko
Scott Donaldson 3-1 Zhou Yuelong
Scott Donaldson 3-1 Iulian Boiko
Noppon Saengkham 3-1 Zhou Yuelong
Group D Desk
1. Noppon Saengkham – 7 factors
2. Scott Donaldson – 6 factors
3. Zhou Yuelong – 3 factors
4. Iulian Boiko – 1 level
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