Stephen Hendry made a uncommon look on the World Snooker Tour on Thursday, shedding within the Welsh Open qualifiers in Barnsley.
The legendary seven-time world champion nonetheless has the chance to compete professionally on the again of an invitational tour card.
However Hendry has been an rare presence on the circuit over the course of the final couple of seasons.
Certainly, this was solely the fifth match of the 2023/24 marketing campaign that the 55 year-old had entered and marked his first outing since October.
Sadly for his many followers, Hendry’s encounter with countryman Ross Muir resulted in related style to his earlier 4 clashes this time period.
4 shut frames at the beginning of the fixture have been shared, however Muir pulled away on the finish of the competition to win 4-2.
It’s a must to go all the best way again to the 2021 English Open for Hendry’s final match victory on the primary tour.
The previous world primary has aspirations of enjoying in entrance of huge crowds once more however overtly admits he doesn’t put the required follow in to succeed at this stage any extra.
Hendry’s newest two-year invitational tour card ends in Might, and whereas it’s extensively anticipated that he’ll be supplied one other one, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not or not he accepts.
Elsewhere on the primary day of Welsh Open qualifying, there have been wins for Scottish Open champion Gary Wilson and former world champion Graeme Dott.
Wilson recorded a 4-1 overcome Mark Davis whereas Dott edged an in depth encounter with Pang Junxu in a decider.
Si Jiahui, a semi-finalist in final 12 months’s World Championship, knocked out former Welsh Open champion Stephen Maguire.
Hossein Vafaei, Chris Wakelin, and Matthew Stevens have been among the many others to make it via to the venue phases in Llandudno subsequent month.
The preliminary phases for the Welsh Open run till Saturday on the Barnsley Metrodome.
The highest 16 seeds, together with reigning champion Robert Milkins and world champion Luca Brecel, have had their round-of-128 ties held over.
Welsh Open qualifiers
– draw, outcomes, and schedule –
Spherical of 128 (bo7)
Thursday, January 25
Anthony McGill 4-1 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Si Jiahui 4-2 Stephen Maguire
Mink Nutcharut 2-4 Andrew Pagett
Daniel Wells 4-2 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Gary Wilson 4-1 Mark Davis
Stephen Hendry 2-4 Ross Muir
Andres Petrov 0-4 Anthony Hamilton
Pang Junxu 3-4 Graeme Dott
Haydon Pinhey 2-4 Allan Taylor
Hossein Vafaei 4-1 Scott Donaldson
Julien Leclercq 4-3 Alfie Burden
Chris Wakelin 4-0 Jimmy Robertson
Matthew Stevens 4-3 Louis Heatchote
Tian Pengfei 4-0 Rod Lawler
Hammad Miah 0-4 Ben Mertens
Ian Burns 4-2 Lukas Kleckers
Friday, January twenty sixth
10am UTC
Lengthy Zehuang vs Andy Lee
Baipat Siripaporn vs Sanderson Lam
Peng Yison vs Robbie Williams
Lyu Haotian vs Jordan Brown
1pm UTC
Zhou Yuelong vs Adam Duffy
Noppon Saengkham vs Himanshu Jain
Stuart Bingham vs Marco Fu
Xiao Guodong vs Ashley Hugill
4pm UTC
Michael White vs Oliver Traces
Liam Pullen vs Rebecca Kenna
Matthew Selt vs Sam Craigie
Aaron Hill vs Anton Kazakov
7pm UTC
Ricky Walden vs Andy Hicks
Reanne Evans vs Stuart Carrington
Ryan Day vs Mostafa Dorgham
Stan Moody vs Sean O’Sullivan
Saturday, January 27
10am UTC
Rory Thor vs Ma Hailong
Jak Jones vs Liu Hongyu
Andrew Higginson vs Xing Zihao
Joe Perry vs Fan Zhengyi
1pm UTC
Iulian Boiko vs Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Dominic Dale vs Jimmy White
Martin Gould vs Wu Yize
Joe O’Connor vs Xu Si
4pm UTC
James Cahill vs Jamie Clarke
David Lilley vs Victor Sarkis
Ryan Thomerson vs Martin O’Donnell
Tom Ford vs Ben Woollaston
7pm UTC
David Gilbert vs Ken Doherty
Dylan Emery vs Fergal O’Brien
Zak Surety vs Mark Joyce
Monday, February 12
(held over fixtures)
Robert Milkins vs Jamie Jones
Jack Lisowski vs Oliver Brown
Mark Williams vs John Astley
Neil Robertson vs Jackson Web page
Mark Allen vs Cao Yupeng
Ding Junhui vs Jenson Kendrick
John Higgins vs Mohamed Ibrahim
Alexander Ursenbacher vs Riley Powell/Liam Davies
Judd Trump vs Liam Highfield
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Liam Graham
Zhang Anda vs Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Ali Carter vs Elliot Slessor
Mark Selby vs Yuan Sijun
Shaun Murphy vs David Grace
Kyren Wilson vs Ashley Carty
Barry Hawkins vs He Guoqiang
Luca Brecel vs Jiang Jun
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