Judd Trump superior from his Xi’an Grand Prix qualifier on Saturday with a 5-2 victory over new skilled Antoni Kowalski.
The 34 year-old wasn’t at his finest on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester – maybe fatigued following his journey again from profitable final week’s Shanghai Masters crown.
However regardless of giving his teenage opponent from Poland many possibilities, Trump nonetheless had sufficient within the tank to safe victory.
The world quantity two received 5 rating titles throughout a prolific 2023/24 marketing campaign and will likely be difficult Mark Allen for prime spot on this planet rankings within the early phases of this time period.
Among the many others to make it via the preliminary section for the Xi’an Grand Prix had been Shaun Murphy, Gary Wilson, and Si Jiahui.
Murphy, who was denied Shanghai success by Trump per week in the past, comfortably beat Mitchell Mann 5-1.
It was a lot harder for Wilson and Si, who emerged from titanic 5-4 tussles with Lengthy Zehuang and Jimmy White respectively.
In what was the final day of the qualifiers for Xi’an, Stephen Maguire thumped Ken Doherty 5-1 and Zhou Yueling matched that profitable margin in opposition to Haydon Pinhey.
There have been triumphs elsewhere for Noppon Saengkham, Anthony McGill, Mark Davis, Jimmy Robertson, and Aaron Hill.
Arguably the largest upset noticed Dean Younger overcome Robert Milkins with a 5-3 victory, though Ben Woollaston was additionally left shocked.
The Leicester lad let slip a 4-0 result in Julien Leclercq and was finally downed 5-4 in a spectacular collapse in opposition to the Belgian.
The venue phases of the Xi’an Grand Prix happen from August nineteenth to twenty fifth.
Allen, Kyren Wilson, Ronnie O’Sullivan, and Ding Junhui had been amongst a number of marquee names who had their preliminary fixtures within the competitors held over.
Subsequent up on the schedule is the qualifying interval for the Wuhan Open.
2024 Xi’an Grand Prix draw
Spherical of 128 (bo9)
Thursday, July 25
He Guoqiang 5-4 Ashley Carty
Fan Zhengyi 2-5 Sunny Akani
Jamie Jones 5-2 Mostafa Dorgham
Martin O’Donnell 3-5 Ma Hailong
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-3 Lei Peifan
Scott Donaldson w/o Lim Kok Leong
Xiao Guodong 5-2 Iulian Boiko
John Higgins 5-2 Alexander Ursenbacher
David Grace 0-5 Révész Bulcsú
Joshua Thomand 3-5 Amir Sarkhosh
Robbie Williams 3-5 Artemijs Zizins
Jordan Brown 5-2 Liam Pullen
Simon Blackwell 4-5 Ben Mertens
Ryan Day 5-4 Cheung Ka Wai
Neil Robertson 5-2 Allan Taylor
Hossein Vafaei 5-1 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Jackson Web page 2-5 Dylan Emery
Jack Lisowski 5-1 Ross Muir
David Gilbert 5-1 Reanne Evans
Dominic Dale 5-4 Mohammed Shehab
Matthew Stevens 5-0 Andrew Higginson
Friday, July 26
Elliot Slessor 5-0 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Chris Wakelin 5-4 Rory Thor
Xu Si 5-4 Jiang Jun
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Bai Yulu
Anthony Hamilton 4-5 Gong Chenzhi
Tian Pengfei 5-0 Farakh Ajaib
Joe Perry 5-0 Mink Nutcharut
Tom Ford 5-3 Stan Moody
Joe O’Connor 5-3 Duane Jones
Sanderson Lam 2-5 Zak Surety
Hammad Miah w/o Luca Brecel
Jak Jones 5-4 Robbie McGuigan
Wu Yize 3-5 Paul Deaville
Pang Junxu 5-2 Michael Holt
Ricky Walden 5-3 Liam Davies
Mark Williams 5-0 Liam Graham
Matthew Selt 5-2 Ian Burns
Ali Carter 4-5 Daniel Wells
Barry Hawkins 5-1 Kreishh Gurbaxani
David Lilley 5-3 Louis Heathcote
Saturday, July 27
Anthony McGill 5-0 Xing Zihao
Jimmy Robertson 5-1 Huang Jiahao
Mark Davis 5-3 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Lyu Haotian 5-2 Baipat Siripaporn
Noppon Saengkham 5-3 Andrew Pagett
Ben Woollaston 4-5 Julien Leclercq
Zhou Yuelong 5-1 Haydon Pinhey
Robert Milkins 3-5 Dean Younger
Si Jiahui 5-4 Jimmy White
Judd Trump 5-2 Antoni Kowalski
Gary Wilson 5-4 Lengthy Zehuang
Aaron Hill 5-2 Chris Totten
Shaun Murphy 5-1 Mitchell Mann
Stephen Maguire 5-1 Ken Doherty
Heldover Matches
Monday, August 19
Kyren Wilson vs Haris Tahir
Stuart Bingham vs Wildcard
Ding Junhui vs Alfie Burden
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Wang Yuchen
Zhang Anda vs Oliver Traces
Graeme Dott vs Wildcard
Mark Selby vs Wildcard
Jamie Clarke vs Wildcard
Mark Allen vs Liu Hongyu
Featured photograph credit score: WST
