Jack Lisowski gained’t have a chance to compete in Cheltenham this season after shedding within the British Open qualifiers on Wednesday.
The Cheltenham cueist would have been hoping to make use of the native help on the Centaur to assist enhance his possibilities of securing a maiden rating title.
However Lisowski produced a disappointing efficiency in his round-of-128 fixture on the Mattioli Area in Leicester and misplaced 4-2 to David Grace.
The 33 year-old had a poor second half to the 2023/24 marketing campaign that noticed him drop out of the highest 16 on the earth rankings.
Though he managed to efficiently emerge from his qualifying fixtures for the Xi’an Grand Prix and the Wuhan Open this time period, Lisowski gained’t be that includes on the venue phases of the British Open.
Grace, who had misplaced each of his latest preliminary-round matches and was in want of a stronger show, compiled breaks of 101, 58, and 54.
Elsewhere, Si Jiahui and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh moved by within the competitors with respective defeats of David Lilley and Alexander Ursenbacher.
Noppon Saengkham, who will likely be seeking to break into the highest 16 for the primary time in his profession this season, edged Joe Perry in a deciding body.
The Thai, a finalist in final season’s Scottish Open, contributed a brace of century breaks earlier than clinching a detailed final body.
Michael Holt secured solely his second victory since returning to the World Snooker Tour as knowledgeable, in the meantime.
The previous Shoot Out champion, who dominated final season’s beginner Q Tour, simply dismantled Reanne Evans’ problem with a 4-0 scoreline.
Mark Davis, Martin O’Donnell, and Jamie Clarke additionally progressed with one-sided victories.
Among the many others to make it by to the final 64 have been Ma Hailong, Allan Taylor, Liam Graham, and beginner top-up Iulian Boiko.
The British Open qualifiers proceed on Thursday with Stephen Maguire, Hossein Vafaei, and Jimmy White representing just a few of the higher-profile names in motion.
The highest 16 seeds have all had their preliminary clashes within the rating match held over to the venue phases in September.
2024 British Open qualifying draw and schedule
Spherical of 128 (bo7)
Wednesday, July 31
Si Jiahui 4-2 David Lilley
Alexander Ursenbacher 1-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 1-4 Jamie Clarke
Iulian Boiko 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
Artiemijs Zizins 3-4 Allan Taylor
Mink Nutcharut 1-4 Liam Graham
Robbie McGuigan 0-4 Mark Davis
David Grace 4-2 Jack Lisowski
Ma Hailong 4-2 Jimmy Robertson
Noppon Saengkham 4-3 Joe Perry
Martin O’Donnell 4-1 Mitchell Mann
Michael Holt 4-0 Reanne Evans
Thursday, August 1
10am UTC+1
Xu Si vs Ken Doherty
Fan Zhengyi vs Zhou Yuelong
Ricky Walden vs Liu Hongyu
1pm UTC+1
Andrew Pagett vs Neil Robertson
Xing Zihao vs Stuart Carrington
Jimmy White vs Chris Totten
4pm UTC+1
Mostafa Dorgham vs Hossein Vafaei
Chris Wakelin vs Haydon Pinhey
Amir Sarkhosh vs Ashley Carty
7pm UTC+1
Jiang Jun vs Stephen Maguire
Duane Jones vs Dominic Dale
Ahmed Elsayed vs Anton Kazakov
Friday, August 2
10am UTC+1
Xiao Guodong vs Huang Jiahao
Kok Leong Lim vs Anthony Hamilton
Stuart Bingham vs He Guoqiang
1pm UTC+1
Joe O’Connor vs Stan Moody
Jamie Jones vs Yuan Sijun
Wang Yuchen vs Hammad Miah
4pm UTC+1
Joshua Thomand vs Marco Fu
Liam Pullen vs Lengthy Zehuang
Alfie Burden vs Andrew Higginson
7pm UTC+1
Antoni Kowalski vs Daniel Wells
Matthew Selt vs Ben Woollaston
Sunny Akani vs Daniel Womersely
Saturday, August 3
10am UTC+1
Simon Blackwell vs Bai Yulu
Cheung Ka Wai vs Kreishh Gurbaxani
Oliver Strains vs Lei Peifan
1pm UTC+1
Baipat Siripaporn vs Wu Yize
Lyu Haotian vs Anthony McGill
Scott Donaldson vs Tian Pengfei
4pm UTC+1
Graeme Dott vs Matthew Stevens
David Gilbert vs Dylan Emery
Dean Younger vs Haris Tahir
7pm UTC+1
Zak Surety vs Ben Mertens
Joshua Cooper vs Elliot Slessor
Jackson Web page vs Robbie Williams
Heldover Matches
Monday, September 23
Schedule TBC
Mark Williams vs Rory Thor
John Higgins vs Ross Muir
Ali Carter vs Révész Bulcsú
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Mark Selby vs Pang Junxu
Tom Ford vs Gong Chenzhi
Ryan Day vs Louis Heathcote
Judd Trump vs Robert Milkins
Mark Allen vs Gary Wilson
Zhang Anda vs Jordan Brown
Jak Jones vs Sanderson Lam
Luca Brecel vs Mohammed Shehab
Ding Junhui vs Aaron Hill
Barry Hawkins vs Liam Davies
Shaun Murphy vs Ian Burns
Kyren Wilson vs Julien Leclercq
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