Ng On Yee superior from Stage One in every of Championship League Snooker on Friday by topping Group 32 in Leicester.
The favored Hong Kong potter is again on the primary tour this season after a two-year absence by means of her excessive rating on the ladies’s circuit.
Ng, a two-time winner on the World Girls’s Snooker Tour final season, was undefeated in her three round-robin fixtures on the Mattioli Area.
The 34 year-old raced right into a 2-0 lead towards Crucible qualifier Daniel Wells with breaks of 57 and 53 solely to be pegged again with the pair sharing a degree to start out the day’s play.
One other 2-2 draw adopted towards He Guoqiang with Ng twice preventing again from a body behind so as to add to her factors tally.
By this level, China’s He had management of the group and required solely a degree from his final recreation to progress.
However a 3-1 defeat to Wells coupled with Ng’s 3-0 victory towards Irish rookie Leone Crowley despatched the three-time ladies’s world champion by means of as a substitute courtesy of a superior body distinction.
It was a equally tight affair in Group 2 the place Zhang Anda nearly managed to lived as much as his billing as a seed to qualify for the competitors’s final 32.
The previous Worldwide Championship winner beat novice top-up George Pragnell 3-1 in his opening bout.
Zhang then secured successive 2-2 attracts with Chris Totten and Cheung Ka Wai to prevail with 5 factors, one forward of Pragnell.
Each Ng On Yee and Zhang Anda will rejoin the fray within the rating occasion version of Championship League Snooker in a few weeks.
Earlier than that, there are nonetheless 22 teams from Stage One to contest with two extra to be performed out on Saturday in Leicester.
Stuart Bingham – a former winner of the invitational model of this event – heads Group 11 alongside Antoni Kowalski, Hatem Yassen, and Halim Hussain.
In Group 17, Elliot Slessor, Stan Moody, Oliver Brown, and Mark Lloyd shall be vying for a spot within the second group section.
Championship League Snooker represents the opening rating occasion of the fledgling 2025/26 snooker season.
The general winner on July twenty third will take residence £33,000 value of prize cash and rating factors, plus a ticket to the profitable Champion of Champions invitational later this yr.
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Friday’s Outcomes
Group 2
Zhang Anda 3-1 George Pragnell
Cheung Ka Wai 2-2 Chris Totten
Cheung Ka Wai 2-2 George Pragnell
Zhang Anda 2-2 Chris Totten
George Pragnell 3-1 Chris Totten
Zhang Anda 2-2 Cheung Ka Wai
Desk
1. Zhang Anda – 5 factors
2. George Pragnell – 4 factors
3. Cheung Ka Wai – 3 factors
4. Chris Totten – 2 factors
Group 32
Daniel Wells 2-2 Ng On Yee
He Guoqiang 3-0 Leone Crowley
He Guoqiang 2-2 Ng On Yee
Daniel Wells 2-2 Leone Crowley
Ng On Yee 3-0 Leone Crowley
Daniel Wells 3-1 He Guoqiang
Desk
1. Ng On Yee – 5 factors
2. Daniel Wells – 5 factors
3. He Guoqiang – 4 factors
4. Leone Crowley – 1 level
Featured photograph credit score: WWS / Andy Chubb Pictures
