Jimmy White was among the many winners on Tuesday because the remaining outcomes on the 2025 Wuhan Open qualifiers had been decided in Leicester.
The 63 year-old, starting his forty sixth consecutive marketing campaign as knowledgeable participant courtesy of a renewed invitational tour card, was in wonderful type on the Mattioli Area.
Certainly, White produced certainly one of his finest performances of current occasions to beat Anthony McGill 5-2 with breaks of 92, 90, 80, and 71.
The latter has struggled for type and consistency over the previous few years and is, in reality, already within the midst of the tour survival battle on the provisional end-of-season rankings.
For White, although, the previous world quantity two will head to China in late-August for the profitable rating occasion the place he’ll do battle with previous rival Marco Fu.
Fu’s progress was arguably much more spectacular, with the veteran Hong Kong potter rolling again the years with a hat-trick of century breaks to oust top-16 competitor Chris Wakelin.
There have been no points for Kyren Wilson, who launched his new season with a convincing 5-0 success over rookie Connor Benzey.
Barry Hawkins, Ryan Day, David Gilbert, Lei Peifan, and Jak Jones had been among the many different acquainted names to make it by means of the preliminary part unscathed.
There have been just a few upsets of kinds, nonetheless, with former world champion Stuart Bingham bowing out to returning professional Liam Highfield – this 12 months’s European newbie champion.
Robert Milkins additionally exited the fray with a 5-1 reverse to Wang Yuchen, though whether or not or not that now legislates as a shock is debatable contemplating the previous’s current type.
Jimmy Robertson, Jackson Web page, and Xu Si all superior, whereas Ben Woollaston thumped Ken Doherty with a 5-1 scoreline.
The ultimate outcomes carry an finish to 3 days of motion on the Wuhan Open qualifiers, with a number of prime seeds having had their round-of-128 fixtures held over to the venue levels.
The primary occasion in Wuhan, the place Xiao Guodong is the defending champion, will happen from August twenty fourth to August thirtieth this summer time.
Subsequent up on the calendar are the British Open qualifiers, which additionally happen on the Mattioli Area over the following 4 days.
2025 Wuhan Open Draw
Spherical of 128 (bo9)
Xiao Guodong vs Mink Nutcharut (held over)
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 5-1 Yao Pengcheng
Elliot Slessor 5-4 Oliver Strains
Ricky Walden 4-5 David Grace
Chris Wakelin 3-5 Marco Fu
Anthony McGill 2-5 Jimmy White
Wu Yize 2-5 Louis Heathcote
Matthew Selt 5-4 Sunny Akani
Xu Si 5-1 Chris Totten
Jak Jones 5-0 Oliver Brown
Jamie Jones 5-4 Liu Wenwei
Barry Hawkins 5-1 Julien Leclercq
Noppon Saengkham 5-0 Robbie McGuigan
Zhou Yuelong 5-2 Lan Yuhao
Stan Moody 5-2 Antoni Kowalski
Ding Junhui vs TBC Wildcard (held over)
Mark Williams 5-0 Chatchapong Nasa
Mark Davis 4-5 Liam Davies
Joe O’Connor 5-4 Jiang Jun
Ben Woollaston 5-1 Ken Doherty
Mark Selby 5-1 Alexander Ursenbacher
Michael Holt 5-3 Liam Graham
David Gilbert 5-1 Cheung Ka Wai
Haris Tahir w/o Luca Brecel
Daniel Wells 4-5 Chang Bingyu
Stuart Bingham 2-5 Liam Highfield
Sanderson Lam 1-5 Zhao Hanyang
Zhang Anda 5-2 Steven Hallworth
Jimmy Robertson 5-4 Liam Pullen
Lei Peifan 5-3 Ng On Yee
Aaron Hill 5-1 Sam Craigie
Kyren Wilson 5-0 Connor Benzey
Judd Trump vs Farakh Ajaib (held over)
Liu Hongyu 5-3 Ian Burns
Jack Lisowski 5-3 Amir Sarkhosh
Ryan Day 5-1 Jonas Luz
Shaun Murphy 5-0 Michal Szubarczyk
Jordan Brown 5-1 Duane Jones
Gary Wilson 5-2 Gao Yang
Lyu Haotian 5-3 Bai Yulu
Martin O’Donnell 1-5 Haydon Pinhey
Tom Ford 5-2 Mateusz Baranowski
David Lilley 4-5 Reanne Evans
Neil Robertson 5-0 Leone Crowley
He Guoqiang 1-5 Artemijs Zizins
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Xu Yichen
Lengthy Zehuang 3-5 Dylan Emery
John Higgins 5-2 Huang Jiahao
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Allan Taylor (held over)
Scott Donaldson 5-4 Mitchell Mann
Pang Junxu 5-4 Hatem Yassen
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-0 Fergal Quinn
Mark Allen vs TBC Wildcard (held over)
Zak Surety 5-1 Gong Chenzhi
Hossein Vafaei vs TBC Wildcard (held over)
Fan Zhengyi 3-5 Ben Mertens
Jackson Web page 5-3 Ross Muir
Ali Carter 5-2 Florian Nuessle
Robert Milkins 1-5 Wang Yuchen
Si Jiahui 5-2 Bulcsu Revesz
Robbie Williams vs TBC Wildcard (held over)
Stephen Maguire 5-1 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Matthew Stevens 5-2 Sahil Nayyar
Zhao Xintong vs Iulian Boiko (held over)
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