Yesterday saw 128 players in action at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff as the Welsh Open 2016 got underway. They started early morning and finished around 1 am this morning, with 12 tables in use.

Overall the seeds went through with a few high profile exceptions: Stephen Maguire, Stuart Bingham and Kyren Wilson all lost their opening match. The Welsh had mixed fortunes, but Michael White, Matthew Stevens and Mark Williams all won, although Mark was not happy with his performance, which, truth to be said, was very poor.

Ronnie stole the headlines by making another non-147, you can read all about it here.

But the break of the day, for me, is the one Anthony Hamilton made to win his match against the World Champion:

Truly remarkable.

All the results and statistics are available on cuetracker.net . Thank you Ron Florax.