Here is the report shared by WST

Un-Nooh Through To Belfast

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh edged out Julien Leclercq 4-3 to qualify for the final stages of the BetVictor Northern Ireland Open and will head to the Waterfront Hall in Belfast next month. 

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Thailand’s Un-Nooh is enjoying a strong start to the season, notably reaching the last 16 of the Wuhan Open, and a narrow victory over Leclercq puts him into the last 64 of another ranking event. A break of 85 helped give Un-Nooh a 3-1 lead, then Belgium’s Leclercq fought back to 3-3 and led 59-0 in the decider. But Un-Nooh made a vital break of 71 to lead by 12 points and later potted the pink for victory.

Stan Moody top scored with 80 in a 4-0 win over Reanne Evans while Dylan Emery’s top break of 89 helped him to beat Xu Si 4-3. 

China’s 17-year-old Lan Yuhao beat Michael Holt 4-2 with runs of 115, 53, 80 and 50. Scott Donaldson top scored with 127 in a 4-2 defeat of Antoni Kowalski.

The qualifiers conclude on Sunday then the main event runs from October 19-26.

For once the main theme of the report is not a match involving at least one British/Irish player… it’s about a match between a Thai and a Belgian. Hallelujah! It was a good match to watch. Of course I wanted Julien to go through but I like them both and I’m not too disappointed. Julien fought really well and Theppy’s near clearance¹ to win was a very good one, it wasn’t straightforward.

As usual, you will find all the detailed results on snooker.org.

Another interesting result is Haris Tahir 4-3 win over Lyu Haotian. It was another hard fought, close match and Haris prevailed over a far more “tour experienced” player. Remarkably, Haris has now qualified for the coming 2025 British Open and 2025 Northern Ireland Open, and still has the 2025 English Open and 2025 Xi’an Grand Prix coming. His first match in the latter is “held-over”, he is due to face Kyren Wilson, obviously a difficult opponent. In Brentwood though he will play young Michal Szubarczyk, a very promising prospect but still very young and inexperienced.

Big question marks today … Luca Brecel is due to play Liam Davies later afternoon today. Will he play? If he does, what about the cue or cues? Will he finish the match? Young Liam needs to be ready for anything and everything 🙄

1. minus the final black ↩︎