The Mattioli Arena’s afternoon wave of Scottish Open Qual Round 2 did not mess about — whitewashes, seven-frame scrapes, and a few seeds shown the door before the evening session even sat down.
Leicester — afternoon wrap (R2)
Luca Brecel [37] set the tone early: a 4–0 blanking of Gong Chenzhi [100], frames settled without a fuss. Around him the cloth got messier.
Three ties went the distance:
- Chatchapong Nasa [88] edged Louis Heathcote [64] 4–3 after Heathcote clawed back from 0–3
- Matthew Stevens [47] survived Florian Nüßle [87] 4–3
- Ben Woollaston [43] did the same to Alexander Ursenbacher [89] 4–3
Elsewhere on the 13:00 / 16:00 boards (via snooker.org):
- Dylan Emery [66] 4–2 Ishpreet Singh Chadha [57]
- Jiang Jun [59] 4–1 Oliver Brown [86]
- Stan Moody [34] 4–1 Jack Borwick (a)
- Jordan Brown [60] 4–0 Steven Wardropper (a)
- Yao Pengcheng [71] 4–1 Liam Highfield [61]
Morning already locked Aaron Hill’s triple-century 4–2 over Antoni Kowalski, plus Scott Donaldson 4–2 Mitchell Mann and Iulian Boiko 4–3 Ben Mertens — twelve Round 2 winners banked for the day before the night shift.
Evening session — live, no scores claimed
Still on the tables as this posts (~19:00 BST start): Ryan Day vs Michal Szubarczyk, He Guoqiang vs Gao Yang, Jimmy Robertson vs Steven Hallworth, Oliver Lines vs Ashley Carty. We’ll take those when snooker.org posts the finishes — not before.
Wednesday morning opens with Wells–Sykes, Walden–Baranowski, Williams–Tirapongpaiboon and Long–Davies.
Where to watch
WST Play, HBO Max, Huya and partners — per snooker.org.
Sofia — Q Tour L64 (finished only)
Q Tour Europe Event 2 at the Princess Hotel clipped through a first batch of Last 64 results:
- Sanderson Lam 4–1 Robert Read
- George Pragnell 4–2 Vladislav Gradinari
- Daniel Womersley 4–1 Witold Bystrzycki
- Krzysztof Czapnik 4–3 Alfie Davies
- Kayden Brierley 4–1 Shaun Liu
- Dean Young 4–2 Kaylan Patel
Elsewhere
World 10-Ball at Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City keeps grinding double-elim toward Saturday’s final ($300k / $80k to the winner) — Pro Billiard TV / CueScore for the live tables. Reyes Cup Makati tickets still drop tomorrow, Wednesday 23 September, 17:00 Manila local.
Photo: Kucharek / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). File:Billard_Break_Shot.jpg
