The quarter-finals of the Northern Eire Open happen on Friday on the Waterfront Corridor in Belfast.

There are eight gamers nonetheless vying for the Alex Higgins Trophy and the £80,000 champion’s cheque.

Six contenders amongst these left within the draw have expertise of lasting the gap in a rating occasion.

The opposite two will probably be bidding to etch their names onto a bit of silverware at this degree for the primary time.

Let’s have a look, then, on the 4 ties within the Northern Eire Open quarter-finals.

Ricky Walden vs Jack Lisowski

Friday, October twenty seventh – 12pm

Whereas under no circumstances a straightforward path to glory, Jack Lisowski have to be trying on the draw and pondering this might lastly be his week.

The Englishman is nicely considered the perfect participant to have by no means gained a rating occasion.

Six earlier appearances in finals have introduced six painful defeats, however with so many big-name gamers not within the draw, he has a giant alternative to make it fortunate quantity seven in Northern Eire.

Lisowski’s subsequent problem to beat is Ricky Walden, who is aware of what it takes having tallied three rating titles prior to now.

Walden didn’t attain a single semi-final final season, so he’ll be trying to rectify what has been an detached spell of type.

The top-to-head between Lisowski and Walden reads 5-3 within the former’s favour, though it’s truly 3-2 to Walden when Championship League fixtures aren’t included.

Chris Wakelin vs Yuan Sijun

Friday, October twenty seventh – 7pm

An infinite alternative awaits both Chris Wakelin or Yuan Sijun within the quarter-finals of the Northern Eire Open.

Wakelin is a rating occasion winner, however even he would admit that there’s loads of fortune concerned in rising because the Snooker Shoot Out champion.

Apart from that, the enhancing 31 year-old has by no means featured within the last-four stage of a traditional rating event.

Yuan, in the meantime, can also be bidding to achieve a rating occasion semi-final for under the second time – having beforehand gone that far on the 2019 Gibraltar Open.

Wakelin and Yuan have by no means performed one another in skilled competitors, however even with none stats, their encounter seems to be comparatively evenly matched on paper.

Within the final 16, Yuan ended the hopes of teenage rookie Stan Moody whereas Wakelin upset Shaun Murphy.

Judd Trump vs Stephen Maguire

Friday, October twenty seventh – 7pm

It’s been an unusually very long time since Stephen Maguire has featured in one among these quarter-final preview articles.

The truth is, that is the primary time the previous world quantity two has reached this level because the 2022 World Championship.

Within the interim, Maguire suffered a heavy dip in type which has resulted in his plummet down the rankings listing.

Fears of a possible scrap with tour survival have been allayed due to extra promising outcomes of late, nevertheless.

Somebody who has been no stranger to the enterprise finish of the tournaments is Judd Trump.

The Englishman stays on the right track to assert a twenty sixth rating crown after preventing again from behind to beat Noppon Saengkham in a decider on Thursday.

Trump has already gained the English and Wuhan Opens this month, that means a uncommon hat-trick of successive titles is on the playing cards.

Apparently, Trump possesses a superior head-to-head document in opposition to Maguire however solely simply, with 16 wins to the latter’s 15.

Barry Hawkins vs David Gilbert

Friday, October twenty seventh – not earlier than 2pm

Barry Hawkins and David Gilbert coasted by to the Northern Eire Open quarter-finals with respective 4-0 defeats of Robbie Williams and Rory McLeod.

Hawkins has already gained an occasion this time period, prevailing on the European Masters the place he outlasted Trump within the remaining.

Gilbert, however, has hardly ever featured at this hurdle of a contest over the last couple of years.

The pair of Englishmen have met on 9 events prior to now, they usually boast 4 wins apiece along with a draw.

Most of their video games been have contested within the Championship League, with solely 4 performed throughout longer codecs.

Gilbert has gained three of these, however arguably their most notable conflict was on the 2014 World Championship when Hawkins gained 10-4.

Northern Eire Open Draw

Spherical of 128 (bo7)

Mark Allen 4-0 Ben Mertens
Andres Petrov 4-3 Sanderson Lam
Graeme Dott 4-0 Oliver Strains
David Grace 0-4 Zihao Xing
Ricky Walden 4-2 Ben Woollaston
Allan Taylor 1-4 Dominic Dale
Stuart Bingham 4-3 Ashley Hugill
Xu Si 4-2 Alexander Ursenbacher

Mohamed Ibrahim 2-4 Dean Younger
Matthew Selt 4-1 Andy Lee
Liam Graham 0-4 Jackson Web page
Jack Lisowski 4-1 Rebecca Kenna
David Lilley 1-4 Aaron Hill
Fan Zhengyi 4-2 Liu Hongyu
Dylan Emery 4-3 Martin Gould
Robert Milkins 3-4 Cao Yupeng

Shaun Murphy 4-2 Ryan Thomerson
Marco Fu 4-2 Jamie Jones
Joe O’Connor 2-4 Zak Surety
Andrew Higginson 2-4 Sean O’Sullivan
Ryan Day 3-4 Ma Hailong
Martin O’Donnell 4-3 Daniel Wells
Chris Wakelin 4-0 Anthony Hamilton
Alfie Burden 4-3 Mostafa Dorgham

Rod Lawler 4-0 Baipat Siripaporn
Zhou Yuelong 2-4 Stan Moody
Andrew Pagett 3-4 Lukas Kleckers
Gary Wilson 4-3 Louis Heathcote
Jamie Clarke 4-3 Alfie Davies
Xiao Guodong 1-4 Yuan Sijun
Jordan Brown 4-2 Stuart Carrington
Neil Robertson 4-1 Wu Yize

Judd Trump 4-1 Jenson Kendrick
Adam Duffy 1-4 Julien Leclercq
Pang Junxu 2-4 Ian Burns
Liam Highfield 3-4 Ken Doherty
Anthony McGill 4-3 Jimmy White
Robbie McGuigan 4-1 Muhammad Asif
Noppon Saengkham 4-0 Himanshu Jain
Manasawin Phetmalaikul 3-4 Barry Pinches

Mink Nutcharut 2-4 Michael White
Joe Perry 4-2 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Lengthy Zehuang 1-4 Anton Kazakov
Hossein Vafaei 4-1 Mark Joyce
James Cahill 4-1 Duane Jones
Stephen Maguire 4-3 Fergal O’Brien
Reanne Evans 0-4 Hammad Miah
Kyren Wilson 3-4 Sam Craigie

Mark Williams 4-1 Tian Pengfei
Liam Pullen 1-4 Robbie Williams
Si Jiahui 1-4 Zhang Anda
John Astley 0-4 Rory Thor
Barry Hawkins 4-1 Elliot Slessor
Andy Hicks 2-4 Jiang Jun
Jimmy Robertson 4-2 Sydney Wilson
Peng Yison 4-1 He Guoqiang

Matthew Stevens 4-2 Stephen Hendry
David Gilbert 4-1 Joel Connolly
Lyu Haotian 4-1 Ashley Carty
Tom Ford 4-0 Haydon Pinhey
Scott Donaldson 0-4 Mark Davis
Jak Jones 4-0 Oliver Brown
Victor Sarkis 2-4 Ross Muir
Rory McLeod 4-0 Ahmed Aly Elsayed

Spherical of 64 (bo7)

Mark Allen 3-4 Andres Petrov
Graeme Dott 1-4 Xing Zihao
Ricky Walden 4-3 Dominic Dale
Stuart Bingham 4-1 Xu Si
Dean Younger 3-4 Matthew Selt
Jackson Web page 1-4 Jack Lisowski
Aaron Hill 4-1 Fan Zhengyi
Dylan Emery 4-3 Cao Yupeng

Shaun Murphy 4-3 Marco Fu
Zak Surety 3-4 Sean O’Sullivan
Ma Hailong 1-4 Martin O’Donnell
Chris Wakelin 4-2 Alfie Burden
Rod Lawler 1-4 Stan Moody
Lukas Kleckers 1-4 Gary Wilson
Jamie Clarke 0-4 Yuan Sijun
Jordan Brown 4-1 Neil Robertson

Judd Trump 4-0 Julien Leclercq
Ian Burns 4-2 Ken Doherty
Anthony McGill 4-3 Robbie McGuigan
Noppon Saengkham 4-1 Barry Pinches
Michael White 3-4 Joe Perry
Anton Kazakov 0-4 Hossein Vafaei
James Cahill 2-4 Stephen Maguire
Hammad Miah 2-4 Sam Craigie

Mark Williams 2-4 Robbie Williams
Zhang Anda 4-1 Rory Thor
Barry Hawkins 4-1 Jiang Jun
Jimmy Robertson 4-0 Peng Yisong
Matthew Stevens 3-4 David Gilbert
Lyu Haotian 4-3 Tom Ford
Mark Davis 2-4 Jak Jones
Ross Muir 3-4 Rory McLeod

Spherical of 32 (bo7)

Andres Petrov 1-4 Xing Zihao
Ricky Walden 4-1 Stuart Bingham
Matthew Selt 1-4 Jack Lisowski
Aaron Hill 4-0 Dylan Emery

Shaun Murphy 4-0 Sean O’Sullivan
Martin O’Donnell 1-4 Chris Wakelin
Stan Moody 4-2 Gary Wilson
Yuan Sijun 4-2 Jordan Brown

Judd Trump 4-2 Ian Burns
Anthony McGill 0-4 Noppon Saengkham
Joe Perry 4-3 Hossein Vafaei
Stephen Maguire 4-2 Sam Craigie

Robbie Williams 4-1 Zhang Anda
Barry Hawkins 4-1 Jimmy Robertson
David Gilbert 4-1 Lyu Haotian
Jak Jones 3-4 Rory McLeod

Spherical of 16 (bo7)

Xing Zihao 1-4 Ricky Walden
Jack Lisowski 4-1 Aaron Hill
Shaun Murphy 2-4 Chris Wakelin
Stan Moody 2-4 Yuan Sijun

Judd Trump 4-3 Noppon Saengkham
Joe Perry 3-4 Stephen Maguire
Robbie Williams 0-4 Barry Hawkins
David Gilbert 4-0 Rory McLeod

Quarter-Finals (bo9)

*matches to be performed on Friday*

Ricky Walden vs Jack Lisowski (12pm)
Chris Wakelin vs Yuan Sijun (7pm)

Judd Trump vs Stephen Maguire (7pm)
Barry Hawkins vs David Gilbert (not earlier than 2pm)

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