Neil Robertson begins new season properly


Neil Robertson safely superior from his group in Championship League Snooker as the brand new season obtained underneath method in Leicester on Monday.

The Australian compiled a break of 70 however might solely share the 4 frames he initially performed in opposition to novice top-up Zack Richardson.

That left him with work to do in his remaining round-robin fixtures in opposition to Cheung Ka Wai and Jamie Clarke.

The 42 year-old comfortably beat the previous opponent 3-0, Cheung competing in his first event as knowledgeable participant following his success on this 12 months’s WSF Championship.

Robertson was stage on the identical variety of factors with Clarke heading into their essential showdown in opposition to each other.

However regardless of shedding the opening body to the Welshman, contributions of 93 and 70 noticed Robertson high Group 21 with seven factors.

The previous world champion and world primary has slipped all the way down to as little as quantity 28 within the rankings after a dismal run of kind.

Robertson, for years thought of among the many most constant excessive performers on the baize, solely reached one rating occasion semi-final throughout a troublesome final marketing campaign.

He’ll transfer ahead to Stage Two of Championship League Snooker, the place the 32 group winners from Stage One will undergo one other four-player mini league course of.

Becoming a member of Neil Robertson will probably be Ryan Day, who equally progressed with a file of two wins and a draw from Group 11.

The Welshman, a finalist of the invitational model of Championship League Snooker in 2017, obtained off to a powerful begin by beating rookie Liam Davies 3-0.

The world no.18 then shared the spoils with Hammad Miah earlier than orchestrating a second 3-0 victory in his final outing in opposition to Marco Fu.

Within the latter fixture, Day produced his best sequence of kind by compiling successive breaks of 125, 72, and 85.

On Tuesday, the 24-day competitors will proceed with one other two teams from the early part.

Group 4 will see Mark Williams entertain David Grace, Fergal Quinn, and Connor Benzey.

In Group 17, Chris Wakelin would be the favorite in opposition to Ian Burns, Liam Pullen, and Rory McLeod.


Championship League Snooker
Stage One Draw

Group 1
June twentieth
Group 2
June twenty fifth
Group 3
June twenty seventh
Group 4
June eleventh
Kyren Wilson Ronnie O’Sullivan Shaun Murphy Mark Williams
Scott Donaldson He Guoqiang Tian Pengfei David Grace
Baipat Siripaporn Mitchell Mann Reanne Evans Fergal Quinn
Daniel Womersley Kayden Brierley Steven Hallworth Connor Benzey
Group 5
June twenty sixth
Group 6
June twenty fourth
Group 7
June seventeenth
Group 8
June seventeenth
Ali Carter Gary Wilson Tom Ford Jak Jones
Xing Zihao Joe Perry Sanderson Lam Jordan Brown
Kreishh Gurbaxani Michael Holt Robbie McGuigan Bulcsú Révész
Joshua Thomond Huang Jiahao Barry Pinches Antoni Kowalski
Group 9
June twenty fourth
Group 10
June 14th
Group 11 Group 12
June twenty fifth
John Higgins Robert Milkins Ryan Day Jack Lisowski
Ma Hailong Jackson Web page Liam Davies Mark Davis
Ben Mertens Andrew Higginson Hammad Miah Jiang Jun
Artemijs Zizins Iulian Boiko Marco Fu Anton Kazakov
Group 13
June twenty first
Group 14
June twentieth
Group 15
June twenty seventh
Group 16
June twenty sixth
Si Jiahui Hossein Vafaei David Gilbert Zhou Yuelong
Jimmy Robertson Louis Heathcote Xu Si Fan Zhengyi
Zak Surety Manasawin Phetmalaikul Andrew Pagett Alfie Burden
Lee Daegyu Josh Mulholland Duane Jones Mink Nutcharut
Group 17
June eleventh
Group 18
June twenty first
Group 19
June twenty second
Group 20
June twenty second
Chris Wakelin Stuart Bingham Noppon Saengkham Pang Junxu
Ian Burns Anthony Hamilton Lengthy Zehuang Stuart Carrington
Liam Pullen Ahmed Aly Elsayed Lei Peifan Gong Chenzhi
Rory McLeod Hamim Hussain Alfie Davies Gerard Greene
Group 21 Group 22
June thirteenth
Group 23
June thirteenth
Group 24
June 18th
Neil Robertson Joe O’Connor Stephen Maguire Ricky Walden
Cheung Ka Wai Aaron Hill Michael White Martin O’Donnell
Jamie Clarke Oliver Traces Dean Younger Rory Thor
Zack Richardson Harvey Chandler Ryan Davies Umut Dikme
Group 25
June twelfth
Group 26
June nineteenth
Group 27
June nineteenth
Group 28
June 18th
Robbie Williams Matthew Selt Yuan Sijun Wu Yize
Matthew Stevens Graeme Dott David Lilley Ross Muir
Haydon Pinhey Alexander Ursenbacher Liam Graham Allan Taylor
Farakh Ajaib Florian Nuessle Paul Deaville Joshua Cooper
Group 29
June fifteenth
Group 30
June fifteenth
Group 31
June twelfth
Group 32
June 14th
Dominic Dale Jamie Jones Elliot Slessor Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ben Woollaston Liu Hongyu Ashley Carty Daniel Wells
Stan Moody Ishpreet Singh Chadha Mostafa Dorgham Julien Leclercq
Dylan Emery Chris Totten Simon Blackwell Mark Joyce

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