Jack Lisowski, Jak Jones, and Chang Bingyu were among the players who made it through the British Open qualifiers this week in Leicester.
Lisowski has had a poor start to the new campaign but secured a much-needed victory with his 4-1 outing against Scott Donaldson at the Mattioli Arena.
Championship League Snooker winner Jones had a tougher time of it but managed to eventually emerge with a 4-3 triumph over Matthew Selt.
The rapidly improving Chang produced another high-scoring display, meanwhile, to see off the challenge of former world champion Stuart Bingham with a 4-0 rout.
Elsewhere, Liam Highfield compiled his first 147 break on the World Snooker Tour in a 4-1 defeat of seven-time ranking event winner Stephen Maguire.
Among those also through to the last 64 are Ali Carter, Elliot Slessor, Zhang Anda, Matthew Stevens, and last year’s British Open runner-up Anthony McGill.
Women’s star Bai Yulu progressed as well courtesy of a 4-1 victory over Sahil Nayyar.
In addition to Bingham, a few other notable names failed in their attempts to get beyond the preliminary phase of the competition.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, Gary Wilson, Zhou Yuelong, Ryan Day, Marco Fu, and Jimmy White all bowed out of the running.
The British Open adopts a random-draw format, meaning the top 16 seeds also enter in the round of 128.
The matches involving those players, however, have been held over to the venue stages, which take place from August 31 to September 6 at the Centaur in Cheltenham.
2026 British Open qualifiers: results
Round of 128
Ashley Carty vs Si Jiahui (held over)
Liam Graham 4-3 Martin O’Donnell
Anthony McGill 4-3 Joe O’Connor
Wu Yize vs Liu Hongyu (held over)
Matthew Stevens 4-2 Antoni Kowalski
Artemijs Zizins 4-0 Michael Larkov
Ding Junhui vs Anton Kazakov (held over)
Jackson Page 4-1 Fergal Quinn
Iulian Boiko 4-3 Luo Zetao
Xiao Guodong vs Jiang Jun (held over)
Mark Selby vs David Lilley (held over)
Judd Trump vs Dylan Emery (held over)
Zhang Anda 4-2 Alfie Burden
Joshua Thomond 4-3 Sam Craigie
Pang Junxu vs Neil Robertson (held over)
Ricky Walden 4-1 Gary Wilson
Yao Pengcheng 4-2 Ng On Yee
Jordan Brown 4-1 Liu Wenwei
Shaun Murphy vs Reanne Evans (held over)
Mahmoud El Hareedy 4-1 Lan Yuhao
Steven Hallworth 4-2 Marco Fu
Long Zehuang 4-1 Leone Crowley
Oliver Brown vs Zhao Xintong (held over)
T Tirapongpaiboon 4-0 Gao Yang
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-3 Allan Taylor
Jack Lisowski 4-1 Scott Donaldson
Chatchapong Nasa 4-3 Ryan Day
Daniel Wells 4-2 Liam Pullen
Fan Zhengyi 4-1 Ben Woollaston
Florian Nuessle vs Kyren Wilson (held over)
Zak Surety 4-1 Huang Jiahao
Jamie Jones 4-1 Oliver Sykes
Xu Yichen 4-3 Oliver Lines
Jimmy Robertson 4-3 Zhou Yuelong
Phil O’Kane 4-2 Connor Benzey
Ben Mertens 4-1 Zhao Hanyang
David Grace 4-1 Michal Szubarczyk
Gong Chenzhi 4-3 Xu Si
Jak Jones 4-3 Matthew Selt
Duane Jones 4-0 Alexander Ursenbacher
Aaron Hill 4-2 Panchaya Channoi
Chang Bingyu 4-0 Stuart Bingham
Stan Moody 4-0 Paul Norris
Michael Holt 4-3 Cheung Ka Wai
Lyu Haotian 4-2 Yuan Sijun
Elliot Slessor 4-1 Julien Leclercq
Jamie Clarke 4-3 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ross Muir w/o Tom Ford
Mark Williams vs David Gilbert (held over)
John Higgins vs Hossein Vafaei (held over)
Noppon Saengkham 4-2 Ashley Hugill
Bai Yulu 4-1 Sahil Nayyar
Barry Hawkins vs Deng Haohui (held over)
Mitchell Mann 4-3 Louis Heathcote
Liu Yang 4-1 Andrew Higginson
Liam Highfield 4-1 Stephen Maguire
Liam Davies 4-2 Craig Steadman
He Guoqiang 4-0 Robbie Williams
Sean O’Sullivan 4-1 Jimmy White
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Mateusz Baranowski (held over)
Chris Wakelin vs Luca Brecel (held over)
Wang Xinbo vs Mark Allen (held over)
Lei Peifan 4-1 Hammad Miah
Ali Carter 4-0 Stuart Carrington
Featured photo credit: WST
