Yesterday was the last of the “tiered phase” at the 2024 English Open. Tomorrow the round of 64 will start and the big guns will come into action.

Here is the report by WST on what happened yesterday in Brentwood:

BETVICTOR ENGLISH OPEN – SATURDAY ROUND-UP

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh eased into the last 64 of the BetVictor English Open in Brentwood, beating Oliver Sykes 4-1.

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Thailand’s Un-Nooh fired breaks of 94 and 78 as he set up a third round match with Pang Junxu on Monday night. China’s He Guoqiang made a 61 in the decider to beat Wang Yuchen 4-3 and he will now face Ronnie O’Sullivan on Tuesday evening.

Artemijs Zizins continued his impressive start to the season as he beat Robbie Williams 4-2 with a top break of 138. Joe Perry top scored with 97 in a 4-1 defeat of Jimmy White, while India’s Ishpreet Singh Chadha fired runs of 53, 76 and 88 in a 4-2 defeat of Graeme Dott. 

David Grace enjoyed a 4-0 success against Marco Fu to set up a meeting with Kyren Wilson,  while Jimmy Robertson top scored with 86 in a 4-1 defeat of Alexander Ursenbacher. Xi Si edged out Ka Wai Cheung 4-3 in a match which featured a century and five more breaks over 70. 

Ronnie will have to be on his game on Tuesday because He Guoqiang was really excellent. Wang Yuchen himself was not bad at all and it made for a good match to watch ¹ as was the match between Xu Si and Ka Wai Cheung. In both cases the player I would have liked to win, lost, but it was good snooker between young talented players, and surely young hard working players as well.

I saw nothing of the evening action as I did a photoshoot at a musical event … life and music coming in the way of snooker. Right, my hobby, photography, does as well, big time, on a regular basis. For what it’s worth here is link to my “image report” on that event: https://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?template=22&event=1833 . You shouldn’t need to be on facebook to browse through it.

All the detailed results are on snooker.org

1. which I did 😉 ↩︎