Ricky Walden and Matthew Selt booked their place into the third round at the 2025 ranking CLS.

I didn’t watch much of the action, and nothing from the concluding phase of the day so can’t really comment. We are experiencing very high temperatures here in Santorini: at the time of writing, 11h30 in the morning, the outside temperature is already over 35 degree Celsius and it will only get higher in the coming hours. With all hotels and many houses putting the air conditioning on, at full power, our electric network fails on a regular basis. It did again yesterday evening. This is an island that has about 15000 permanent residents, staying on the island in winter, and as much as over 20 times more tourists in the peak of the season. It is estimated that we have now about 3 400 000 tourists on the island every year. Many of them come on organised trips, stepping out of the “croisière” boats, ferried around in mini vans or pullman busses, with a strict schedule. They barely have time to properly enjoy the unique natural environment of the island. What’s the point? And many of those who stay for some days don’t know how to cope with the heat and sun. The local hospital is excellent but gets more that they can cope with deep sunburns, sunstrokes and alcoholic coma cases. But I digress …

Here is the report shared by WST:

Selt Edges Into Finale

Matthew Selt narrowly prevailed to win Group F and make it to the final stage of the BetVictor Championship League in Leicester. 

The former Indian Open champion needed to beat 2015 Crucible king Stuart Bingham 3-0 to in the final game to progress and that was exactly what he did. A tense last frame came down to the colours, but he prevailed 58-50 to seal his progression on frame difference. He edged out Liam Davies, who he had earlier drawn 2-2 with, by a single frame and beat Dylan Emery 3-1 with a top score of 75. 

On the other table it was Ricky Walden who came through in the last match. The Chester cueman beat Liu Hongyu 3-1 to seal top spot and force the Chinese cueman into second spot. Earlier in the day Walden beat David Gilbert 3-1 and drew 2-2 with Chris Wakelin. 

The second stage concludes on Tuesday with the likes of Tom Ford and Wu Yize in action.

As always you will find all the detailed results on snooker.org: Group E and Group F