Yesterday was the last day at the Wuhan Open Qualifiers and here is WST report on the day:

RED HOT ROBERTSON EASES THROUGH

Australia’s 2010 World Champion Neil Robertson continued an undefeated start to the new season with a 5-0 whitewash win against 1997 Crucible king Ken Doherty at Wuhan Open qualifying.

The Thunder from Down Under endured a torrid 23/24 campaign and slumped to 27th in the world rankings. However, is yet to lose a match this term after winning his group at the Championship League, before withdrawing from the next phase and then also beating Allan Taylor to qualify for the Xi’an Grand Prix. Robertson crafted runs of 55, 101, 91 and 80 during today’s victory. 

World number one Mark Allen earned his spot in the final stages thanks to a 5-1 defeat of Women’s World Champion Bai Yulu. Allen top scored with 102 during the comfortable win. 

Hong Kong’s three-time ranking event winner Marco Fu registered a fine 5-1 win over Zhou Yuelong, while Jack Lisowski was a 5-2 victor against Liam Graham.

Once again this report is short, far from comprehensive, and focussed on the well known names whilst it’s actually the other ones who need exposure. Also this is actually the first round of the tournament, players don’t need to “qualify” for tournaments but they have to “qualify” for the “right” to play at the actual event venue… and that’s wrong.

All the results are, as usual, on snooker.org.

There were some interesting results yesterday in the matches that WST overlooked.

• Andrew Pagett beat Lyu Haotian by 5-1 in a low scoring match. It must have been pretty scrappy and that, IMO, doesn’t suit Lyu. The only telling break was a 87, made by Lyu in the only frame he won.
• Louis Heathcote beat Theppy by 5-4. Again it was a contrast in styles. Theppy came back from 0-3 down and scored breaks of 59, 56, 88 and 78 in the process. Louis didn’t have a single break over 50 in the course of match but he won the decider …
• Mark Davis defeated Chris Totten by 5-3 in a match where both scored well given the opportunity. The Dark One had breaks of 122, 100 and 77, Chris Totten scored breaks of 58, 127 and 57. This was a true clash of generations: Mark will turn 52 in less than two weeks, Chris is only 25.
• In another clash of generations, Stan Moody (17 years old) beat Matthew Stevens (46 years old) by 5-2. Stan was the better scorer, his highest break in this match was 135 AND he won the majority of the closer frames as well.
• Jak Jones beat Ross Muir by 5-3 in a high quality encounter. Between them they had 6 breaks over 70 in this 8 frames match: 116, 77, 89 and 102 for Jak, 71 and 82 for Ross.