A number of up-and-coming skills of the sport superior to the third spherical of the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters on Saturday in Riyadh.
Stan Moody overcame fellow teenager Liam Pullen 4-1, and there have been victories elsewhere for tour rookies Bulcsú Révész, Artemijs Zizins, and Antoni Kowalski.
The latter produced probably the most convincing efficiency, comfortably overcoming He Guoqiang with a 4-0 scoreline.
Révész and Zizins wanted all seven frames of their fixtures however finally outlasted Mark Davis and Xu Si in 4-3 thrillers respectively.
Belgium’s Ben Mertens and Northern Eire’s Robbie McGuigan additionally reached the subsequent spherical on the Inexperienced Halls.
There isn’t anyone on the circuit extra skilled than Jimmy White, and the ten-time rating occasion winner proved that he nonetheless has loads to supply after beating Andrew Higginson 4-1.
Former world champion Graeme Dott, Marco Fu, and Anthony Hamilton have been among the many others to qualify for the third spherical.
On Sunday, the contenders ranked from 17 to 48 on the earth will enter the fray.
That features the likes of Neil Robertson, Ryan Day, David Gilbert, Jack Lisowski, and Si Jiahui.
Saturday’s Outcomes (R2)
Hammad Miah 1-4 Rory Thor
Jimmy Robertson 4-2 Mohamed Elkhayat
Ashley Carty 4-0 Chris Totten
Liu Hongyu 4-2 Michael Holt
Anthony Hamilton 4-2 Mink Nutcharut
Xing Zihao 4-2 Simon Blackwell
Xu Si 3-4 Artemijs Zizins
Hailong 3-4 Robbie McGuigan
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-1 Liam Graham
Ben Woollaston 4-2 Oliver Strains
Louis Heathcote 4-2 Cheung Ka Wai
Jamie Clarke 3-4 Lei Peifan
Aaron Hill 2-4 Allan Taylor
Stuart Carrington 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
Graeme Dott 4-3 Julien Leclercq
Andrew Higginson 1-4 Jimmy White
Alexander Ursenbacher 3-4 Andrew Pagett
Martin O’Donnell 4-0 Huang Jiahao
Lengthy Zehuang 0-4 Ben Mertens
He Guoqiang 0-4 Antoni Kowalski
David Grace 2-4 Gong Chenzhi
Ian Burns 0-4 Paul Deaville
Mark Davis 3-4 Bulcsú Révész
Alfie Burden 4-3 Dean Younger
Jiang Jun 4-1 Jonas Luz
David Lilley 2-4 Haydon Pinhey
Ross Muir 3-4 Amir Sarkhosh
Sanderson Lam 4-3 Zak Surety
Daniel Wells 2-4 Duane Jones
Marco Fu 4-0 Liam Davies
Tian Pengfei 4-2 Sunny Akani
Liam Pullen 1-4 Stan Moody
Sunday’s Matches (R3)
12pm UTC+1
Robert Milkins vs Rory Thor
Fan Zhengyi vs Jimmy Robertson
Anthony McGill vs Ashley Carty
Ricky Walden vs Liu Hongyu
Jamie Jones vs Anthony Hamilton
Stuart Carrington vs Xing Zihao
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Artemijs Zizins
Chris Wakelin vs Robbie McGuigan
Not earlier than 1pm UTC+1
Hossein Vafaei vs Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Joe Perry vs Ben Woollaston
Joe O’Connor vs Louis Heathcote
Robbie Williams vs Lei Peifan
Matthew Selt vs Allan Taylor
Pang Junxu vs Stuart Carringon
Si Jiahui vs Jimmy White
6pm UTC+1
Jack Lisowski vs Andrew Pagett
Matthew Stevens vs Martin O’Donnell
Stephen Maguire vs Ben Mertens
Wu Yize vs Antoni Kowalski
Jackson Web page vs Gong Chenzhi
Neil Robertson vs Paul Deaville
Jordan Brown vs Bulcsú Révész
David Gilbert vs Alfie Burden
Not earlier than 7pm UTC+1
Zhou Yuelong vs Jiang Jun
Elliot Slessor vs Haydon Pinhey
Noppon Saengkham vs Amir Sarkhosh
Yuan Sijun vs Sanderson Lam
Xiao Guodong vs Duane Jones
Lyu Haotian vs Marco Fu
Scott Donaldson vs Tian Pengfei
Ryan Day vs Stan Moody
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