Yuan Sijun boasted a 100% document as he powered his manner via to Stage Two of Championship League Snooker on Wednesday.
The 25 year-old didn’t lose a single body throughout the day’s play on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester, orchestrating a hat-trick of 3-0 scorelines.
Yuan first bagelled newbie top-up Stuart Carrington earlier than additionally whitewashing Alexander Ursenbacher with a brace of 75 breaks.
One of the best was to return in his closing round-robin fixture the place the previous rating occasion semi-finalist contributed runs of 123, 106, and 104 in a 3-0 rout of Sanderson Lam.
Yuan has been a principal tour participant since 2017 and ended final season with a career-high world rating of quantity 30.
Having seen the likes of Zhao Xintong, Xiao Guodong, and Lei Peifan produce title-winning type in latest instances, he’ll be hoping to grow to be the subsequent Chinese language member to make the transition to turning into a daily match contender.
In Group 25, in the meantime, veteran Matthew Stevens topped proceedings with a document of two victories and a draw.
After comfortably beating Xu Yichen 3-0 and drawing 2-2 with Lan Yuhao, all of it got here all the way down to his final outing in opposition to Ryan Day, who had secured 3-1 defeats of the identical opponents.
Day solely wanted a degree to advance however was on the unsuitable finish of a 3-1 reverse, with countryman Stevens advancing within the competitors as an alternative.
Stevens, who gained each of his qualifying matches final week, is a former winner of the invitational model of Championship League Snooker.
Each Yuan Sijun and Matthew Stevens transfer ahead to Stage Two that may happen later in July, however earlier than that there are nonetheless 26 teams to be contested in Stage One.
The motion continues on Thursday with Wu Yize fronting Group 9 alongside Wang Yuchen, Kreishh Gurbaxani, and Craig Steadman.
Three-time rating occasion winner Ricky Walden is in Group 28 with Robert Milkins, Chang Bingyu, and Steven Hallworth.
Championship League Snooker represents the opening rating occasion of the fledgling 2025/26 snooker season.
The general winner on July twenty third will take house £33,000 price of prize cash and rating factors, plus a ticket to the profitable Champion of Champions invitational later this 12 months.
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Wednesday’s Outcomes
Group 18
Yuan Sijun 3-0 Stuart Carrington
Sanderson Lam 2-2 Alexander Ursenbacher
Sanderson Lam 2-2 Stuart Carrington
Yuan Sijun 3-0 Alexander Ursenbacher
Stuart Carrington 3-1 Alexander Ursenbacher
Yuan Sijun 3-0 Sanderson Lam
Desk
1. Yuan Sijun – 9 factors
2. Stuart Carrington – 4 factors
3. Sanderson Lam – 2 factors
4. Alexander Ursenbacher – 1 level
Group 25
Ryan Day 3-1 Lan Yuhao
Matthew Stevens 3-0 Xu Yichen
Matthew Stevens 2-2 Lan Yuhao
Ryan Day 3-1 Xu Yichen
Lan Yuhao 3-1 Xu Yichen
Matthew Stevens 3-1 Ryan Day
Desk
1. Matthew Stevens – 7 factors
2. Ryan Day – 6 factors
3. Lan Yuhao – 4 factors
4. Xu Yichen – 0 factors
Featured photograph credit score: WST
