Ding Junhui shall be in the principle draw on the 2023 UK Championship after coming by way of his Judgement Day qualifier on Wednesday.
The Chinese language star missed out on an automated place on the Barbican Centre this season by only one spot on the official rankings record.
Zhang Anda’s unbelievable triumph on the Worldwide Championship earlier this month resulted in him turning into a high 16 member for the primary time on the expense of Ding.
However the latter, a three-time UK champion and a runner-up within the competitors final 12 months, safely superior from the preliminary part.
Ding beat Daniel Wells 6-4 within the penultimate spherical and subsequently safeguarded his ticket to York with a 6-3 defeat of Robbie Williams.
“I really like enjoying in York, and I all the time do good within the UK Championship,” Ding Junhui informed Rob Walker upon reaching the first-round correct.
“I don’t wish to miss it, so I attempted my finest to get into the ultimate levels.”
“He performed like he had nothing to lose (in the direction of the tip). However I don’t know, when it was 5-2 or 5-3, I nonetheless thought I’d win the match.
“There have been a few photographs I used to be lacking badly, however I felt I might win.
“I don’t want to look at the draw – 100% somebody will ship me (the opponent’s identify), I’ll get a textual content message.”
Given his historical past within the Triple Crown occasion, Ding will undoubtedly be the identify many of the 16 seeds shall be determined to keep away from.
The draw for the final 32 shall be made on Thursday in the course of the second Judgement Day on the Morningside Area.
Additionally assured to function in which might be Thai duo Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Noppon Saengkham.
Un-Nooh defied a brace of century breaks from opponent Ricky Walden to win 6-3, whereas Saengkham edged previous Wu Yize 6-4.
Within the battle of the Anthonys, McGill downed Hamilton 6-2.
There have been victories elsewhere for Matthew Selt and Jamie Jones, the duo ousting Lyu Haotian and Zak Surety respectively.
A few encounters required deciding frames, with Jamie Clarke pipping David Gilbert and Fan Zhengyi denying Michael White in a pair of nailbiters.
Thursday will see the remaining Judgement Day fixtures happen in Leicester because the qualifiers attain their climax.
There shall be one other eight ties, and amongst these in motion are 2004 UK champion Stephen Maguire and three-time finalist Ken Doherty.
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UK Championship qualifiers draw
Spherical 1 – L144 (bo11)
Saturday, Nov 18
1. Daniel Wells 6-2 Mostafa Dorgham
2. Jenson Kendrick 6-4 Oliver Briffett-Payne
3. Adam Duffy 3-6 Mink Nutcharut
4. Stuart Carrington 6-2 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
5. Mohamed Ibrahim 6-3 Victor Sarkis
6. Marco Fu 6-5 Michael Holt
7. Anton Kazakov 1-6 Ryan Davies
8. Xing Zihao 6-2 Jimmy White
9. Ross Muir 6-1 Andrew Pagett
10. Stan Moody 6-3 Filips Kalnins
11. Peng Yisong 6-0 Umut Dikme
12. Alfie Burden 1-6 Oliver Sykes
13. Ma Hailong 6-4 Sydney Wilson
14. Fergal O’Brien 2-6 Robbie McGuigan
15. Jiang Jun 6-0 Rebecca Kenna
16. Allan Taylor 6-5 Liam Davies
17. Rod Lawler 6-2 Liam Graham
18. Ryan Thomerson 6-5 Reanne Evans
19. Andy Lee 6-2 Joel Connolly
20. Liam Pullen 1-6 Iulian Boiko
21. Lengthy Zehuang 6-5 Haydon Pinhey
22. Oliver Brown 1-6 Dean Younger
23. Andrew Higginson 4-6 Alexander Ursenbacher
24. Muhammad Asif 1-6 Duane Jones
Sunday, Nov 19
25. Sean O’Sullivan 6-5 Baipat Siripaporn (Sat)
26. Louis Heathcote 6-0 Ahmed Aly Elsayed (Sat)
27. Hammad Miah 6-3 Bulcsu Revesz
28. Ian Burns 6-0 Amaan Iqbal
29. Ishpreet Singh Chadha 3-6 Gao Yang
30. Andres Petrov 3-6 Craig Steadman
31. Rory Thor 6-0 Riley Powell
32. Martin O’Donnell 6-4 Jack Borwick
Spherical 2 – L112 (bo11)
33. Ashley Carty 2-6 Daniel Wells
34. Robbie Williams 6-1 Jenson Kendrick
35. Michael White 6-5 Mink Nutcharut
36. Martin Gould 6-0 Stuart Carrington
37. Andy Hicks 6-4 Mohamed Ibrahim
38. Ben Mertens 4-6 Marco Fu
39. David Grace 6-5 Ryan Davies
40. James Cahill 6-2 Xing Zihao
41. He Guoqiang 6-4 Ross Muir
42. Dominic Dale 6-5 Stan Moody
43. Julien Leclercq 6-5 Peng Yisong
44. Jamie Clarke 6-4 Oliver Sykes
45. Xu Si 6-1 Ma Hailong
46. Dylan Emery 6-2 Robbie McGuigan
47. Jackson Web page 4-6 Jiang Jun
48. Zak Surety 6-3 Allan Taylor
Monday, Nov 20
49. Lukas Kleckers 6-3 Rod Lawler
50. Ben Woollaston 6-1 Ryan Thomerson
51. Sanderson Lam 5-6 Andy Lee
52. Mark Joyce 6-5 Iulian Boiko
53. Oliver Strains 6-3 Lengthy Zehuang
54. Ashley Hugill 6-3 Dean Younger
55. Tian Pengfei 3-6 Alexander Ursenbacher
56. Ken Doherty 6-3 Duane Jones
57. David Lilley 6-3 Sean O’Sullivan
58. Elliot Slessor 6-1 Louis Heathcote
59. John Astley 1-6 Hammad Miah
60. Liam Highfield 0-6 Ian Burns
61. Mark Davis 6-4 Gao Yang
62. Aaron Hill 2-6 Craig Steadman
63. Scott Donaldson 6-2 Rory Thor
64. Liu Hongyu 5-6 Martin O’Donnell
Spherical 3 – L80 (bo11)
65. Ding Junhui 6-4 Daniel Wells
66. Matthew Stevens 5-6 Robbie Williams
67. Si Jiahui 5-6 Michael White
68. Fan Zhengyi 6-3 Martin Gould
69. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 6-2 Andy Hicks
70. Ricky Walden 6-5 Marco Fu
71. Wu Yize 6-2 David Grace
72. Noppon Saengkham 6-5 James Cahill
Tuesday, Nov 21
73. Anthony McGill 6-3 He Guoqiang
74. Anthony Hamilton 6-3 Dominic Dale
75. David Gilbert 6-1 Julien Leclercq
76. Jordan Brown 4-6 Jamie Clarke
77. Lyu Haotian 6-2 Xu Si
78. Matthew Selt 6-4 Dylan Emery
79. Jamie Jones 6-4 Jiang Jun
80. Gary Wilson 3-6 Zak Surety
81. Ryan Day 2-6 Lukas Kleckers
82. Cao Yupeng 4-6 Ben Woollaston
83. Joe Perry 6-2 Andy Lee
84. Xiao Guodong 2-6 Mark Joyce
85. Joe O’Connor 6-5 Oliver Strains
86. Stephen Maguire 6-4 Ashley Hugill
87. Yuan Sijun 6-5 Alexander Ursenbacher
88. Chris Wakelin 4-6 Ken Doherty
89. Stuart Bingham 2-6 David Lilley
90. Graeme Dott 3-6 Elliot Slessor
91. Zhou Yuelong 6-4 Hammad Miah
92. Jak Jones 2-6 Ian Burns
93. Pang Junxu 6-4 Mark Davis
94. Jimmy Robertson 5-6 Craig Steadman
95. Sam Craigie 1-6 Scott Donaldson
96. Hossein Vafaei 6-0 Martin O’Donnell
Spherical 4 – L48 (bo11)
Wednesday, Nov 22
Ding Junhui 6-3 Robbie Williams
Michael White 5-6 Fan Zhengyi
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 6-3 Ricky Walden
Wu Yize 4-6 Noppon Saengkham
Anthony McGill 6-2 Anthony Hamilton
David Gilbert 5-6 Jamie Clarke
Lyu Haotian 3-6 Matthew Selt
Jamie Jones 6-4 Zak Surety
Thursday, Nov 23
1pm UTC
Lucas Kleckers vs Ben Woollaston
Joe Perry vs Mark Joyce
Joe O’Connor vs Stephen Maguire
Yuan Sijun vs Ken Doherty
7pm UTC
David Lilley vs Elliot Slessor
Zhou Yuelong vs Ian Burns
Pang Junxu vs Craig Steadman
Scott Donaldson vs Hossein Vafaei
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