Phase 1 of the 2025 Ranking Championship League Snooker concluded yesterday with group 27 and group 29. All the detailed results are available on snooker.org, just follow the links.

Here is the report shared by WST:

Emery And Xu Top Tables To Complete First Phase

Dylan Emery and Xu Si topped their groups at the BetVictor Championship League ranking event to become the last two players into the second round.

Phase two gets underway on Friday, with 32 players remaining in the hunt for the title. The second stage runs from July 18-22, with the final chapter on July 23.

Welshman Emery, who is back on tour this season after a year in the amateur ranks, produced a strong finish to top Group 27 ahead of Aaron Hill. He drew his first match 2-2 with Sahil Nayyar then beat Gary Thomson 3-0 with a top break of 126. That left Emery needing to beat Hill in the last game of the day, and he stormed to a 3-0 success.

In Group 29, China’s Xu continued his perfect start to the season having won his qualifying matches for the Wuhan Open and British Open last month. He opened with a 3-0 win over Michal Szubarczyk, making a break of 107 in frame three. He then beat Liam Highfield 3-1 with runs of 92, 90 and 84, and in his last match Xu came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Fan Zhengyi, who had the consolation of making his second 147 in the second frame. 

Here is Fan’s 147, shared by Matchroom Multisport on Youtube:

Young Michal Szubarczyk got a taste of the challenges that awaits him on the main tour. It’s brutal. I have said it many times, but I will say it again, he’s only a child, 14 is too young to be on the professional tour. At that age a player may have the required technical abilities but very few, if any at all, will have the psychological and emotional maturity to cope with the demands of professional competition. The 16 years old threshold should be reinstantiated, and, if it was for me, it would even be 18 rather than 16. Adolescence is enough of a challenge for most kids without them having to cope with the mental and emotional pressures of professional competition.