Here is the report by WST on the second day at the 2025 Wuhan Open qualifiers:
Murphy And Robertson Enjoy Whitewash Victories
Former World Champions Neil Robertson and Shaun Murphy both subjected rookie opponents to tough pro debuts with 5-0 victories in the qualifying round of the Wuhan Open.
Murphy was up against 14-year-old Polish wonderkid Michal Szubarczyk, the youngest ever professional, and swept to a 5-0 success in 80 minutes with top breaks of 91, 102 and 70.
Robertson took on the WSF Junior Champion Leone Crowley, age 19 from Ireland, and also won 5-0, compiling runs of 102, 92, 50 and 79.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh top scored with 95 in a 5-0 win over Fergal Quinn, while Latvia’s Artemijs Zizins enjoyed an impressive 5-1 defeat of He Guoqiang with top runs of 96, 64 and 62. China’s Chang Bingyu came from 4-1 down to beat Daniel Wells 5-4, taking the last four frames with top breaks of 84, 60 and 70.
Four-time Crucible king Mark Selby eased to a 5-1 success against Alexander Ursenbacher, knocking in 92, 56 and 120. Teenager Stan Moody made a strong start to his third season as he beat Antoni Kowalski 5-2 with a top run of 88. Jack Lisowski came from 3-1 down to beat Amir Sarkhosh 5-3, taking the last four frames with breaks of 54, 61, 87 and 53.
All the detailed results are available on snooker.org
So Shaun Murphy, a former World, UK and Masters champion has beaten a 14 years old kid … that’s glorious isn’t it? Michal Szubarczyk is only 14. For all his talent, he’s only a child. He should NOT be subjected to the stress and expectations coming with being a professional athlete. Even with his family around him, this isn’t right. He still has to complete his education. Formal education in Poland is mandatory up to the age of 18, same as in most mainland Europe countries. Him being 14, one can expect that during the coming two years his body and mind will go through significant transformation and growth. That in itself is tiring. Adolescence is often a challenging period in life. He may love his snooker, he may want to be a pro … that doesn’t mean it’s the best for him. A lot of persons, including adults want things that are actually damaging to their health. In the past you needed to be 16 to be snooker professional. Barry Hearn scrapped that. That was wrong. It’s still wrong.
A lot of Chinese players have been underperforming in those qualifiers. I guess that many actually are only just back from China, still tired and jet lagged, and, maybe with minimal preparation as, for most, during their time in their home land their priority would be family and friends.
One Chinese player who HAS won his match is Chang Bingyu who beat Daniel Wells by 5-4 from 1-4 down. Chang was one of the players who has been suspended after the match fixing scandal. He won the Asia-Pacific Snooker Championship 2025, which earned him a return on the professional World Snooker Tour for this season and the next. He’s probably very keen to redeem himself and unlike many has actually been practicing hard.
Ronnie O'Sullivan 
Chang Bingyu didnt have a extra ban
He’s still banned in China.
No, Chang Bingyu will be suspended for 2 years until December 7, 2024. During the suspension period, he is prohibited from participating in all billiards events and activities in mainland China in any form and in any capacity.
See Lewis’ comment hereunder … Lewis is usually very well informed when it comes to Chinese players.
Yes, I like Lewis commemts, but Im this case he is wrong. However, in some cases the CBSA has opted for the official sentencing rather than the reduced option that many players were granted with with the WPBSA., but Im the case of Bingyu they opted for the reduced option and I agree.
I found back the post about the CBSA decision. It’s here . Indeed Chang Bingyu did not get an extension of his WPBSA ban. Interestingly Zhao Xintong did and can’t play in China until 1 July 2025. That makes him free to play in Wuhan though because, of course, his first round match is held-over to the venue can be justified by the fact that he is the reigning World Champion and anyway, if he had to qualify, the qualifiers were played in the UK Zhao Jianbo is also now free to play again.
Chang Bingyu on snooker.org: https://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?player=1981
There I find: https://snookerhq.com/2023/06/21/cbsa-announces-bans-chinese-match-fixing-snooker-players/
The pertinent text at snookerhq reads:
“9. Chang Bingyu will be suspended for 2 years until December 7, 2024. During the suspension period, he is prohibited from participating in all billiards events and activities in mainland China in any form and in any capacity.”
It appears that the CBSA was rather lenient and granted the same reduced ban as did the WPBSA. So, if David Caulfield at snookerhq got it right, Chang’s ban (in China) is over since last December.
Yes, I think you are right. I went back to the original CBSA statement. Unfortunately, there are other sources on the internet which have a different length, but that’s probably just normal unreliability… It’s definitely right that Chang Bingyu is welcomed back. He made a mistake, but was under extreme pressure after being threatened in the back of a car. Another very vulnerable player, Zhao Jianbo, has returned to playing Heyball.
Of course the start of the new season is always difficult for some players, even if they have been working hard. Overseas players have had to return to the UK, and the players from China have the added pressure of desperately wanting to qualify for Wuhan. If they lose, they will feel upset that they bothered to return at all – they could have spent a couple more weeks with their families. It makes so much more sense to have the Summer Championship League as the first event, rather than these qualifiers.
It’s not clear to me that Chang Bingyu will be permitted to play in Wuhan, with the CBSA rather clumsily adding extra length to his ban. But I assume he will still get his prize money for winning the first-round match.