Here is WST report on the third day at the 2024 British Open qualifiers:

BATTLING BINGHAM THROUGH TO CHELTENHAM

Stuart Bingham earned a place in the final stages of the Unibet British Open with a hard fought 4-3 win over He Guoqiang at qualifying in Leicester. 

2015 Crucible king Bingham came into the match off the back of a surprise 5-1 defeat to Xing Zihao in Wuhan Open qualifying. Despite being 3-0 ahead, he was under threat again today when a stirring fightback from last season’s Rookie of the Year He restored parity at 3-3. However, a crucial break of 61 from Bingham in the decider saw him through. 

Malaysia’s Kok Leong Lim scored an impressive 4-1 win over former German Masters champion Anthony Hamilton. Kok crafted breaks of 50 and 51 on his way to scoring a first victory as a professional. He gained a place on the World Snooker Tour with success at Asia/Oceania Q School.

Hong Kong’s three-time ranking event winner Marco Fu defeated Josh Thomond 4-1, while Stan Moody beat Joe O’Connor 4-2.  

All the detailed results are on snooker.org as usual

And, of course, as usual, a lot of matches are not reported on. Amongst others …

• Notably none of the matches won by a mainland China player feature in the above report. Xiao Guodong beat Huang Jiahao by 4-2, Yuan Sijun defeated Jamie Jones by 4-2 and Long Zehuang whitewashed Liam Pullen. The Yuan Sijun v Jamie Jones match was actually a close one. Jamie Jones scored the only century of the match, a 102, but I’m certain he would happily trade it for the win!
• Also missing is Hammad Miah 4-2 win over Wang Yuchen. Wang was often first in in this match but missed a few and Miah punished those mistakes.
• Alfie Burden beat Andrew Higginson by 4-2. Andrew was 2-0 up, with breaks of 52 and 72, but it was all Alfie after that. For me, Alfie is one of the big underachievers on tour.
• Antoni Kowalski beat Daniel Wells by 4-1. The 20 years old rookie from Poland has only lost one match so far on the main tour … 5-2 to Judd Trump in the Xi’an Grand Prix qualifiers.
• Sunny Akani whitewashed Daniel Womersley. Sunny’s potting was quite reliable in this match.
• And finally … Ben Woollaston got the better of Matthew Selt. He beat him by 4-3. Matt Selt made the highest break of the match, a 81, but Ben Woollaston had a break over 60 in each of the frames he won.

The last 12 matches of those qualifiers will be played today and Discovery+/HBOMax are now showing all matches it seems.