Jimmy White secured successive 4-3 outcomes on the Northern Eire Open qualifiers to ensure his involvement in Belfast subsequent month.
The 62 year-old beat Paul Deaville by the odd body on Saturday in Sheffield and repeated the trick a day later in opposition to Jackson Web page.
The ten-time rating occasion winner compiled breaks of 61 and 50 to see off the problem of the younger Welshman, who has didn’t kick on after reaching a maiden rating occasion remaining in the beginning of the season.
White gained simply two video games throughout a disappointing 2023/24 marketing campaign however has already tripled that tally this time period, profitable six out of the ten matches he has performed up to now.
His reward shall be a gathering with one of many high 32 seeds when he participates on the venue levels of the House Nations collection occasion in October on the Waterfront Corridor.
A busy day of motion at Ponds Forge, in the meantime, noticed a number of fascinating outcomes on the Northern Eire Open qualifiers.
Stan Moody, who reached the final 16 of the British Open, continued to indicate his promise with a high-quality 4-3 defeat of Ben Woollaston.
It was additionally one other spectacular triumph for Bulcsu Revesz, who’s defying his rookie standing with a string of sturdy performances on the circuit.
On this event, the Hungarian thrashed the skilled Robbie Williams 4-0 whereas compiling breaks of 72 and 53.
Malaysia’s Rory Thor additionally prolonged his respectable run of kind by beating Daniel Wells 4-2.
Among the many higher-profile gamers to advance within the competitors have been 2006 world champion Graeme Dott, former Masters winner Matthew Stevens, and veteran Welshman Dominic Dale.
Saudi Arabia Masters quarter-finalist Jimmy Robertson and English Open semi-finalist Ishpreet Singh Chadha additionally progressed along with Anthony McGill, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, and Matthew Selt.
There was defeat, nonetheless, for Joe Perry in opposition to Wang Yuchen with the previous’s detached run of kind dragging him into the combat for tour survival.
Anthony Hamilton is moreover flirting with the pivotal high 64 cut-off level, so a 4-3 loss to Wang Yuchen gained’t have achieved the previous German Masters champion a lot good.
The Northern Eire Open takes place from October 20-27 on the Waterfront Corridor in Belfast.
Northern Eire Open qualifiers
Spherical of 128 (bo7)
Outcomes
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-1 Florian Nuessle
Michael Holt 4-0 Reanne Evans
Liam Pullen 4-1 Mink Nutcharut
Gong Chenzhi 4-0 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Duane Jones 4-2 Artemijs Zizins
Alfie Burden 4-3 Mitchell Mann
Haris Tahir 4-3 Zak Surety
Jiang Jun 4-3 Huang Jiahao
Louis Heathcote 4-3 Anton Kazakov
Amir Sarkhosh 4-2 Cheung Ka Wai
Antoni Kowalski 4-3 Hammad Miah
Liam Davies 4-2 Dean Younger
Lei Peifan 4-3 Jamie Gardiner
Rory Thor 4-3 Mark Joyce
Chris Totten 4-3 Robbie McGuigan
Lengthy Zehuang 4-3 Haydon Pinhey
Simon Blackwell 4-3 Stuart Carrington
Oliver Strains vs Joshua Cooper (held over)
Kreishh Gurbaxani 4-1 Andrew Higginson
Wang Yuchen 4-1 Andrew Pagett
Jimmy White 4-3 Paul Deaville
Joel Connolly 4-3 Ian Burns
Liam Graham 4-3 Baipat Siripaporn
Manasawin Phetmalaikul 4-3 Ross Muir
Xing Zihao w/o Ken Doherty
Daniel Womersley 4-1 Ben Mertens
Ma Hailong 4-0 Allan Taylor
Bulcsu Revesz 4-3 Iulian Boiko
Stan Moody 4-2 Dylan Emery
Alexander Ursenbacher 4-1 Mostafa Dorgham
Farakh Ajaib 4-3 Julien Leclercq
Bai Yulu w/o Marco Fu
Spherical of 96 (bo7)
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-1 Ashley Carty
Matthew Selt 4-1 Michael Holt
Fan Zhengyi 4-2 Liam Pullen
Matthew Stevens 4-1 Gong Chenzhi
Scott Donaldson 4-0 Duane Jones
Mark Davis 4-2 Alfie Burden
Dominic Dale 4-2 Haris Tahir
Jiang Jun 4-3 David Lilley
Louis Heathcote 4-3 Aaron Hill
Jimmy Robertson 4-0 Amir Sarkhosh
Tian Pengfei 4-0 Antoni Kowalski
Jordan Brown 4-1 Liam Davies
Lei Peifan 4-3 Jamie Jones
Rory Thor 4-2 Daniel Wells
Elliot Slessor 4-2 Chris Tottne
Lengthy Zehuang 4-0 Sanderson Lam
Liu Hongyu 4-1 Simon Blackwell
Ricky Walden vs Strains/Cooper (held over)
Graeme Dott 4-2 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Wang Yuchen 4-2 Joe Perry
Jimmy White 4-3 Jackson Web page
Martin O’Donnell 4-0 Joel Connolly
Yuan Sijun 4-0 Liam Graham
He Guoqiang 4-0 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Jamie Clarke 4-2 Xing Zihao
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4-0 Daniel Womersley
Ma Hailong 4-3 Anthony Hamilton
Bulcsu Revesz 4-0 Robbie Williams
Stan Moody 4-3 Ben Woollaston
Alexander Ursenbacher 4-3 Xu Si
Anthony McGill 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
David Grace 4-0 Bai Yulu
Featured photograph credit score: WST
