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 | Mark Davis | |
| Ben Mertens | Andrew Higginson | Jiang Jun | |
| Artemijs Zizins | Iulian Boiko | 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 |
| Aaron Hill | Michael White | Martin O’Donnell | |
| Oliver Traces | Dean Younger | Rory Thor | |
| 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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