SOME of the world's champion snooker stars are presently successful enactment astatine the 2024 International Championship - but Ronnie O'Sullivan's AND Judd Trump's journeys person travel to an aboriginal end!
The Rocket suffered a daze decision astatine the hands of Chinese prima Pang Junxu connected Tuesday morning.
While World No 1 Judd Trump got dumped retired of the contention by Xu Si little than 24 hours later.
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Latest scores - Trump crashes out
A large favourite successful O'Sullivan was knocked retired yesterday and Trump present follows.
He looked to beryllium successful power aft winning 3 consecutive framework but Si has fought backmost and seals a superb victory.
Lyu 4-3 Higgins
Pang 4-5 Page
Trump 4-6 Si - finished
Wakelin 6-4 Williams – finishedLatest scores - Pair adjacent connected wins
There could beryllium 2 upsets connected the cards with some Pang and Trump falling behind.
Page and Si present some request conscionable 1 framework to marque it through.
Lyu 4-3 Higgins
Pang 4-5 Page
Trump 4-5 Si
Wakelin 6-4 Williams – finishedLatest scores - Wakelin seals it!
A large triumph for Wakelin who holds his nervus successful the tenth framework to bushed Williams.
All the different matches are level.
Lyu 3-3 Higgins
Pang 4-4 Page
Trump 4-4 Si
Wakelin 6-4 Williams - finished
Latest scores - Higgins successful stalemate
The seventh framework betwixt Lyu and Higgins is dragging connected but it could beryllium cardinal for whoever wins it.
Trump and Pang are besides backmost successful front.
Lyu 3-3 Higgins
Pang 4-3 Page
Trump 4-3 Si
Wakelin 5-4 WilliamsLatest scores - Williams fights on
The Welshman wins the ninth framework to enactment successful the lucifer - unit present connected Wakelin to spot it out, helium volition not privation to instrumentality this to a decider.
Meanwhile determination is thing to abstracted the remainder of the players, who are each tied.
Lyu 3-3 Higgins
Pang 3-3 Page
Trump 3-3 Si
Wakelin 5-4 WilliamsLatest scores - Wakelin closing connected win
Williams has it each to bash to forestall himself from being knocked out, portion Higgins wins a precise large framework to adjacent the spread to Lyu.
Lyu 3-3 Higgins
Pang 3-2 Page
Trump 3-2 Si
Wakelin 5-3 WilliamsLatest scores - Trump takes the lead!
Where does that dependable familiar? A superb framework from the Juddernaut and from Pang, who leads Page.
Lyu 3-1 Higgins
Pang 3-2 Page
Trump 3-2 Si
Wakelin 4-3 WilliamsLatest scores - Trump backmost level
It was a cagey 4th framework but Trump takes it to level things up, unit connected Si now.
Lyu 3-1 Higgins
Pang 2-2 Page
Trump 2-2 Si
Wakelin 3-3 WilliamsLatest scores - Higgins upset connected the cards
Higgins has been playing good successful the International Championship but has present fallen 3-1 down to Lyu.
While Wakelin has taken the lead.
Lyu 3-1 Higgins
Pang 2-2 Page
Trump 1-2 Si
Wakelin 3-2 Williams
Latest scores - Even contests
There are immoderate intimately fought battles retired determination arsenic Wakelin and Page level up their games.
The different 2 matches are locked into a 4th frame.
Lyu 2-1 Higgins
Pang 2-2 Page
Trump 1-2 Si
Wakelin 2-2 WilliamsLatest scores
Lyu 2-1 Higgins
Pang 2-1 Page
Trump 1-2 Si
Wakelin 2-2 WilliamsLatest scores - Trump gets connected the board
Trump takes an important framework to peg backmost Si - going 3-0 would person made his task of winning astir excessively big.
Pang is besides continuing his bully signifier aft knocking retired Ronnie O'Sullivan successful the erstwhile circular yesterday,
Lyu 2-1 Higgins
Pang 2-1 Page
Trump 1-2 Si
Wakelin 1-2 WilliamsLatest scores - Last 16 action
World fig 1 Judd Trump is successful enactment against Xu Si - besides support an oculus retired for John Higgins who has been successful large signifier successful China.
Lyu 1-1 Higgins
Pang 1-1 Page
Trump 0-2 Si
Wakelin 1-1 WilliamsComing up - day session
And aft those archetypal 4 matches, determination is an eye-catching day league ahead.
- Barry Hawkins vs Kyren Wilson
- Jiang Jun vs Ding Junhui
- Jack Lisowski vs Xiao Guodong
- Gary Wilson vs Mark Selby
Coming up - greeting session
Here is however the archetypal league looks, with the enactment getting underway astatine astir 6:30am.
- Chris Wakelin vs Mark Williams
- Pang Junxu vs Jackson Page
- Judd Trump vs Xi Su
- Lyu Haotian vs John Higgins
Results
In lawsuit you missed immoderate of the enactment from earlier, present are the results from the last-32.
- Carter 4-6 Page
- Lisowski 6-5 Jiahui
- O’Sullivan 4-6 Pang
- Saengkham 3-6 Selby
- Stevens 1-6 Higgins
- Trump 6-4 O’Connor
- Wakelin 6-3 Murphy
- Williams 5-6 Wilson
- Ding 6-0 Vafaei
- Hawkins 6-1 N.Robertson
- Jun 6-4 Yuan
- Si 6-2 Day
- Un-Nooh 1-6 Williams
- Xiao 6-2 Allen
- Zhang 1-6 Lyu
- Wu 4-6 Wilson
Inside an improbable friendship
Ronnie O'Sullivan archetypal met met Jackie Chan during his caller travel to Asia.
But the brace are amazingly adjacent pals and speech connected FaceTime regularly.
The Rocket was presented with a bouquet of flowers by the Kung Fu icon past Friday portion successful Macau.
Xintong's comeback
After serving his match-fixing prohibition Zhao Xintong has been named arsenic 1 of 16 elite amateurs to instrumentality portion successful the UK Championship qualifying rounds successful Leicester betwixt November 16-21.
Should helium advancement to the main gully astatine York Barbican, helium could look the likes of reigning satellite champion Kyren Wilson, satellite No1 Judd Trump oregon Ronnie O’Sullivan.
Match-fixer to return
Zhao Xintong, who was astatine the centre of past year’s match-fixing storm, is acceptable vie successful UK Championship qualifying this month.
In June 2023, Xintong was 1 of 10 Chinese players charged with match-fixing offences by an autarkic World Professional Billiards and Snooker relation (WPBSA) disciplinary commission.
He was fixed a two-year and six-month suspension and ordered to wage £7,500 successful costs.
This prohibition was reduced pursuing aboriginal admissions and his plea of blameworthy to 1 twelvemonth and 8 months – and that prohibition expired astatine the commencement of September.
None of the different 9 disgraced stars person served the afloat magnitude of their suspensions.
147 alert
Xu Si secured the 2nd 147 interruption of his vocation successful in Nanjing today.
It came successful his 6-2 triumph implicit Ryan Day.
The 26-year-old is present successful enactment to pouch £5,000 given to the subordinate with the highest interruption of the tournament.
High praise
Ronnie O'Sullivan is possibly not amazed to clang retired to Chinese prima Pang Junxu contiguous aft praising the country's players aft beating He Guoqiang successful the erstwhile round.
O'Sullivan said earlier this week: "These Chinese boys are truthful talented. I privation I had their games. They’re truthful technically good.
"I’ve got that nous. I’m a spot streetwise, that’s got maine done my full career.
"But I privation I had the method that astir 80 guys connected the circuit have.
“The mode they cookware balls is unbelievable. I can’t cookware similar them. If I had their method and cue enactment I’d spell unbeaten the full of my life.”
Key to success
Pang Junxu has revealed a alteration successful mindset led to him knocking retired Ronnie O'Sullivan.
He said aft his win: "In my erstwhile meetings against Ronnie, I held backmost rather a bit.
"But this clip I played more freely and went for my shots.
"It wasn’t fear. I approached the crippled arsenic an accidental to larn from him.”
Ron top
Pang Junxu got the amended of Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-4 successful the past 32 of the International Championship.
On the win, the 24-year-old rising prima said: “In the penultimate frame, I felt a spot tense and I didn’t get the presumption I wanted.
“I near myself with an astir intolerable space (on the black), truthful I wasn’t definite however to instrumentality connected that last ball.
“When Ronnie came backmost to level aft I was starring 4-2, I didn’t consciousness overmuch pressure. His comeback wasn’t truly related to my ain performance.
“I managed to decorativeness the past 2 frames with azygous visits. Overall, I felt overmuch better, the bushed was great, my luck was bully and my agelong pots were solid."
Calendar clash
Ronnie O'Sullivan is acceptable to play successful the Champion of Champions next week successful Bolton and past it is the UK Championship – which helium has won a grounds 8 times – successful York.
Yet helium is not readying connected flying consecutive backmost to the UK and volition walk respective much days retired successful Asia.
On whether helium volition play, O’Sullivan said: "I volition see. I volition walk a fewer days present successful China. I’ve got a spot much worldly to do.
“I don’t know, I ever marque my caput up a time earlier a tourney whether I americium going to play oregon not. I don’t adjacent cognize what I’m doing.
“Listen, ever since I person been playing the game, I ever marque my caput up the time earlier the event. If you consciousness good, you privation to play, you are acceptable – past you play.
“If you are not ready, you don’t play. So hopefully I americium acceptable to play. That’s all."
Latest scores - Yun wins
Ding 6-0 Vafaei – finished
Hawkins 6-1 Robertson – finished
Jun 6-4 Yuan - finished
Si 6-2 Day – finished
Un-Nooh 1-6 Williams – finished
Xiao 6-2 Allen – finished
Zhang 1-6 Lyu – finished
Wu 4-6 Wilson – finished