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Jack Lisowski fails to qualify for hometown event

Jack Lisowski won’t have an opportunity to compete in Cheltenham this season after losing in the British Open qualifiers on Wednesday.

The Cheltenham cueist would have been hoping to use the local support at the Centaur to help boost his chances of securing a maiden ranking title.

But Lisowski produced a disappointing performance in his round-of-128 fixture at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester and lost 4-2 to David Grace.

The 33 year-old had a poor second half to the 2023/24 campaign that saw him drop out of the top 16 in the world rankings.

Although he managed to successfully emerge from his qualifying fixtures for the Xi’an Grand Prix and the Wuhan Open this term, Lisowski won’t be featuring at the venue stages of the British Open.

Grace, who had lost both of his recent preliminary-round matches and was in need of a stronger display, compiled breaks of 101, 58, and 54.

Elsewhere, Si Jiahui and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh moved through in the competition with respective defeats of David Lilley and Alexander Ursenbacher.

Noppon Saengkham, who will be looking to break into the top 16 for the first time in his career this season, edged Joe Perry in a deciding frame.

The Thai, a finalist in last season’s Scottish Open, contributed a brace of century breaks before clinching a close last frame.

Michael Holt secured only his second victory since returning to the World Snooker Tour as a professional, meanwhile.

The former Shoot Out champion, who dominated last season’s amateur Q Tour, easily dismantled Reanne Evans’ challenge with a 4-0 scoreline.

Mark Davis, Martin O’Donnell, and Jamie Clarke also progressed with one-sided victories.

Among the others to make it through to the last 64 were Ma Hailong, Allan Taylor, Liam Graham, and amateur top-up Iulian Boiko.

The British Open qualifiers continue on Thursday with Stephen Maguire, Hossein Vafaei, and Jimmy White representing a few of the higher-profile names in action.

The top 16 seeds have all had their initial clashes in the ranking tournament held over to the venue stages in September.


2024 British Open draw

Round of 128 (bo7)

Top Half
Mark Williams vs Rory Thor (Sept 23)
Si Jiahui 4-2 David Lilley
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4-1 Alexander Ursenbacher
Jamie Clarke 4-1 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Iulian Boiko 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
Allan Taylor 4-3 Artemijs Zizins
Liam Graham 4-1 Mink Nutcharut
John Higgins vs Ross Muir (Sept 23)

Ali Carter vs Révész Bulcsú (Sept 23)
Mark Davis 4-0 Robbie McGuigan
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
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul (Sept 23)

Mark Selby vs Pang Junxu (Sept 23)
Xu Si 4-2 Ken Doherty
Zhou Yuelong 4-3 Fan Zhengyi
Ricky Walden 4-3 Liu Hongyu
Neil Robertson 4-1 Andrew Pagett
Mark Joyce 4-3 Xing Zihao
Chris Totten 4-0 Jimmy White
Tom Ford vs Gong Chenzhi (Sept 23)

Ryan Day vs Louis Heathcote (Sept 23)
Hossein Vafaei 4-1 Mostafa Dorgham
Chris Wakelin 4-0 Haydon Pinhey
Ashley Carty 4-3 Amir Sarkhosh
Stephen Maguire 4-1 Jiang Jun
Duane Jones 4-2 Dominic Dale
Anton Kazakov 4-2 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Judd Trump vs Robert Milkins (Sept 23)

Bottom Half
Mark Allen vs Gary Wilson (Sept 23)
Xiao Guodong 4-2 Huang Jiahao
Lim Kok Leong 4-1 Anthony Hamilton
Stuart Bingham 4-3 He Guoqiang
Stan Moody 4-2 Joe O’Connor
Yuan Sijun 4-2 Jamie Jones
Hammad Miah 4-2 Wang Yuchen
Zhang Anda vs Jordan Brown (Sept 23)

Jak Jones vs Sanderson Lam (Sept 23)
Marco Fu 4-1 Joshua Thomand
Long Zehuang 4-0 Liam Pullen
Alfie Burden 4-3 Andrew Higginson
Antoni Kowalski 4-1 Daniel Wells
Ben Woollaston 4-3 Matthew Selt
Sunny Akani 4-0 Daniel Womersley
Luca Brecel vs Mohammed Shehab (Sept 23)

Ding Junhui vs Aaron Hill (Sept 23)
Simon Blackwell 4-2 Bai Yulu
Cheung Ka Wai 4-0 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Oliver Lines 4-3 Lei Peifan
Wu Yize 4-1 Baipat Siripaporn
Lyu Haotian 4-0 Anthony McGill
Tian Pengfei 4-2 Scott Donaldson
Barry Hawkins vs Liam Davies (Sept 23)

Shaun Murphy vs Ian Burns (Sept 23)
Graeme Dott 4-1 Matthew Stevens
David Gilbert 4-0 Dylan Emery
Haris Tahir 4-3 Dean Young
Ben Mertens 4-1 Zak Surety
Elliot Slessor 4-1 Joshua Copper
Robbie Williams 4-1 Jackson Page
Kyren Wilson vs Julien Leclercq (Sept 23)


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