Shaun Murphy received all three of his round-robin fixtures to comfortably advance from Group 4 of Championship League Snooker on Wednesday.

The Englishman misplaced solely two frames as he adopted up his 3-0 defeat of Andrew Pagett with a brace of 3-1 victories towards Lukas Kleckers and Tian Pengfei.

Murphy was one of many gamers of final season, having fun with a very robust second half to the marketing campaign the place he captured profitable titles within the Gamers and Tour Championships.

The Magician is at present ranked at quantity seven on the planet, however contemplating he doesn’t have many factors to defend from what was a disappointing 2021/22 time period, he might be wanting up in direction of the upper positions on the official record.

In the meantime, Sanderson Lam superior from Group 12 on the expense of former world quantity 4 Barry Hawkins.

An intriguing group that went right down to the ultimate spherical of fixtures, a number of permutations meant that Lam, Hawkins, and Zhang Anda might nonetheless transfer ahead within the competitors.

The latter had produced the efficiency of the day towards Jamie O’Neill when he recorded a hat-trick of century breaks in a 3-1 victory.

However Zhang and Hawkins, who every wanted wins from their final ties to have a crack at first place, did themselves no favours by taking part in out a 2-2 draw.

Because it was, Lam beat O’Neill 3-1 to safeguard his standing because the group chief whereas reserving a spot within the final 32.

Each Shaun Murphy and Sanderson Lam will function in Stage Two of Championship League Snooker subsequent week in Leicester.

Stage One continues with its penultimate day on Thursday and former champion David Gilbert getting into the fray.

The 2021 winner is joined by Yuan Sijun, Sean O’Sullivan, and Ishpreet Singh in Group 13.

Elsewhere, Cao Yupeng is in Group 31 alongside Lyu Haotian, Ian Burns, and Steven Hallworth.

Stage 1 draw

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