There have been eight extra ends in the Wuhan Open qualifiers because the preliminary stage reached its climax on Tuesday in Leicester.

In what was already billed as one of many fixtures of the spherical of 128, the match between Hossein Vafaei and Marco Fu delivered.

Fu secured considered one of his finest wins for some time – the previous world quantity 5 overcoming the proficient Iranian in a good contest that lasted the space.

John Higgins had a a lot simpler time of it with the Scot comfortably beating Dylan Emery 5-1, compiling a excessive break of 115.

There have been constructive outcomes elsewhere within the Wuhan Open qualifiers for former rating occasion winners Michael White and Jordan Brown.

White ousted fellow Welshman Andrew Pagett 5-3 whereas former Welsh Open champion Brown defeated Himanshu Jain.

There was disappointment, nevertheless, for Ricky Walden – thrice a rating occasion winner in China – who was downed 5-3 by Ian Burns.

Jimmy White’s followers had little to cheer about as nicely with the world seniors snooker champion struggling a 5-1 reverse towards Liam Highfield.

Mark Davis and Sam Craigie had been the opposite two gamers to make it via courtesy of respective victories over Liam Graham and Peng Yisong.

The venue levels of the Wuhan Open happen from October ninth to fifteenth in China.

Wuhan Open qualifiers outcomes

Friday, September 1

Outcomes
Ryan Day 5-3 Lengthy Zehuang
Wu Yize 5-3 Allan Taylor
Kyren Wilson 4-5 He Guoqiang
Mark Allen 5-3 John Astley

Neil Robertson 5-0 Ryan Thomerson
Noppon Saengkham 5-3 Andrew Higginson
Robbie Williams 0-5 Alfie Burden
Gary Wilson 3-5 Ashley Carty

Joe O’Connor 5-0 Dean Younger
Jackson Web page 5-3 Liu Hongyu
Ben Woollaston 5-2 Oliver Brown
Mark Selby 5-0 Andy Lee

Saturday, September 2

Outcomes
Xu Si 5-3 Anton Kazakov
Cao Yupeng 5-0 Jiang Jun
Tian Pengfei 3-5 Sanderson Lam
Zhang Anda 5-3 Ahmed Aly Elsayed

Joe Perry 0-5 Aaron Hill
Andy Hicks 3-5 Hammad Miah
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Ross Muir
Fan Zhengyi 1-5 Stuart Carrington

David Grace 2-5 Martin O’Donnell
Elliot Slessor 5-0 David Lilley
Robert Milkins 5-2 Zak Surety
Stuart Bingham 5-3 James Cahill

Sunday, September 3

Outcomes
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-2 Thor Chuan Leong
Scott Donaldson 5-1 Ma Hailong
Anthony McGill 4-5 Ishpreet Singh
Chris Wakelin 5-2 Mink Nutcharut

Tom Ford 5-2 Adam Duffy
Jamie Jones 5-4 Liam Pullen
Jack Lisowski 5-0 Jenson Kendrick
Pang Junxu 5-1 Stan Moody

Barry Hawkins 5-1 Louis Heathcote
Matthew Selt 5-3 Sean O’Sullivan
Oliver Traces 5-0 Reanne Evans
Mark Williams 5-2 Andres Petrov

Monday, September 4

Outcomes
Mark Joyce 5-1 Victor Sarkis
Matthew Stevens 1-5 Daniel Wells
Jamie Clarke 5-0 Mohamed Ibrahim
Lyu Haotian 5-2 Muhammad Asif

Jimmy Robertson 4-5 Rod Lawler
Judd Trump 5-1 Lukas Kleckers
Jak Jones 5-2 Mostafa Dorgham
Graeme Dott 5-3 Julien Leclercq

Stephen Maguire 5-2 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Xiao Guodong 5-0 Alexander Ursenbacher
Shaun Murphy 2-5 Ben Mertens
Dominic Dale 5-0 Rebecca Kenna

Tuesday, September 5

Outcomes
Michael White 5-3 Andrew Pagett
Hossein Vafaei 4-5 Marco Fu
Jordan Brown 5-1 Himanshu Jain
Mark Davis 5-1 Liam Graham

John Higgins 5-1 Dylan Emery
Ricky Walden 3-5 Ian Burns
Sam Craigie 5-1 Peng Yisong
Liam Highfield 5-1 Jimmy White

Held over fixtures
(to be performed in Wuhan)

Monday, October 9

Luca Brecel vs Xing Zihao
David Gilbert vs wildcard
Si Jiahui vs wildcard
Ali Carter vs wildcard
Anthony Hamilton vs wildcard
Zhou Yuelong vs Baipat Siripaporn
Ding Junhui vs Ashley Hugill
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Ken Doherty

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