Heres is the report by WST on groups 2 and 32 that were played yesterday in Leicester
Superb Ng Tops Table
Ng On Yee finished top of the table in a tough group at the BetVictor Championship League to progress to the second phase.
Three-time World Women’s Champion Ng, who is back on the pro tour this season after a two-year absence, was unbeaten in her three matches in Group 32 and goes through to the next phase later this month. It’s the first time in her career she has reached the last 32 of a ranking event.
And Ng’s success continues a fine start to the season for the tour’s women contingent as Reanne Evans won both of her qualifying matches last week while Bai Yulu also earned a place at the British Open.
Hong Kong’s Ng started the day with a 2-2 draw against Daniel Wells, making breaks of 57 and 53, then drew 2-2 again with He Guoqiang. In her last match of the group she beat Leone Crowley 3-0 to go top of the table with five points. He needed only a draw in his last match against Wells, while world number 44 Wells could also get through with a 3-0 victory, but as it turned out he won 3-1, which left him just behind Ng on frame difference.
Zhang Anda, one of the highest ranked players in the tournament at world number 12, safely negotiated Group 2. He started with a 3-1 win over George Pragnell, then made a 107 in drawing 2-2 with Chris Totten, before another 2-2 draw against Ka Wai Cheung, taking the fourth frame on the final black. That left China’s Zhang with five points, one ahead of Pragnell.
The action in Leicester continues on Saturday as the likes of Stuart Bingham, Antoni Kowalski, Elliot Slessor and Stan Moody enter the fray.
I’m very happy about On Yee’s results yesterday. Every single time I watch a snooker match involving a woman or a girl on YouTube the comments “feed” is full of disparaging remarks about their game or often crude and cruel sexually loaded comments about their looks. Some guys were at it again yesterday. Most, if not all, those men wouldn’t win a frame against the women they so intensely loathe and disrespect. On Yee can play, she’s always impeccably dressed, her hair arranged in an elegant and elaborate hairstyle. Her manners are impeccable too, she’s always polite and friendly, no matter what happens at the table. And then, yesterday, when her snooker did the talking there was an idiot online suggesting that she is in fact a trans boy! That last one took the biscuit!
Group 2 was a strange affair. Four of the six matches ended in a draw. Cheung Ka Wai was undefeated but still only finished third in the group…. that’s tough!
Ronnie O'Sullivan 
The comments section is where the wild things reside, humankind’s permanent, 24/7, slow motion train wreck. You are not supposed to be rubbernecking, much less gawk at the train wreck. These guys do not live but for their ability to extract comments like “there was an idiot online”. That’s how they know they’ve been seen, and have had an impact on the world. They do love nothing more than the whining, these “liberal tears”, over their astonishing ugliness.
The first thing I do, having opened anything YouDupe, is to close the comments box, hastily, before I have a chance at catching a glimpse of the “content”. That “x” on the top right is YouDupe’s single-most important feature. I’d really – really – urge you to use it.
Otherwise, I found Ng’s game a puzzling mix of fine snooker and shots that, at the Main Tour level, cannot but be qualified as surrender offerings. Botched safeties galore, horrible positional shots… and then she steals a frame doubling the last black. Other than that, kicking Wells out on account of a +1 frame difference – still makes me grin thinking about it, and Wells has none other than himself to blame for it. After that, and Evans’s two consecutive successful qualifications, maybe, just maybe, there is light at the end of a very long tunnel for the women’s game.
I usually close the comments section right away as well. Igot lazy this time and couldn’t avoid catching a dose of the hateful nonsense… my own fault obviously.