John Higgins might solely handle third place in Group 9 and was duly dumped out of Championship League Snooker on Monday in Leicester.
The esteemed Scot has received the invitational model of Championship League Snooker 4 occasions however will play no additional half on this rating occasion version.
Higgins obtained his 2024/25 snooker season off to a robust begin by beating Latvian rookie Artemijs Zizins 3-0 on the Mattioli Area.
Nevertheless, a 3-0 defeat to Ben Mertens subsequently put the 49 year-old in a spot of hassle that he was in the end unable to get well from.
Forward of the third and last spherical of fixtures, Higgins wanted to beat his last opponent Ma Hailong to have an opportunity of progressing.
However Ma, buoyed by an outstanding 111 within the opening body, took a good third body to safe what proved to be an important level.
With Mertens shedding to Zizins, a 2-2 draw for the younger Chinese language competitor safeguarded his place in Stage Two of the competitors.
It was shut in Group 6 as nicely, with Gary Wilson going undefeated all through the day’s play and holding off a stern problem from fellow Englishman Joe Perry.
Wilson established management of the round-robin section when he orchestrated a brace of early triumphs over Huang Jianbo and Michael Holt.
But Perry managed to build up 4 factors towards the identical opponents, leaving an fascinating crunch tie towards Wilson to spherical off the day.
It seemed promising for Perry when he received the opening body with a break of 71, however Wilson responded with the subsequent two to get the only level he wanted to advance.
Ronnie O’Sullivan is predicted to make his first look of the brand new marketing campaign on Tuesday, in the meantime.
The Rocket is in Group 2 alongside He Guoqiang, Mitchell Mann, and novice top-up Kayden Brierley.
In Group 12, Jack Lisowski entertains Mark Davis, Jiang Jun, and Anton Kazakov.
Monday, June twenty fourth – Outcomes
Group 6
1. Gary Wilson 3-0 Huang Jiahao
2. Joe Perry 2-2 Michael Holt
3. Joe Perry 3-1 Huang Jianbo
4. Gary Wilson 3-1 Michael Holt
5. Michael Holt 3-1 Huang Jiahao
6. Gary Wilson 2-2 Joe Perry
Group 9
1. John Higgins 3-0 Artemijs Zizins
2. Ma Hailong 2-2 Ben Mertens
3. Ma Hailong 3-0 Artemijs Zizins
4. Ben Mertens 3-0 John Higgins
5. Artemijs Zizins 3-0 Ben Mertens
6. John Higgins 2-2 Ma Hailong
Championship League Snooker
Stage One Draw
| Group 1 | Group 2 June twenty fifth |
Group 3 June twenty seventh |
Group 4 |
| Scott Donaldson | Ronnie O’Sullivan | Shaun Murphy | Mark Williams |
| He Guoqiang | Tian Pengfei | ||
| Mitchell Mann | Reanne Evans | ||
| Kayden Brierley | Steven Hallworth |
| Group 5 June twenty sixth |
Group 6 | Group 7 | Group 8 |
| Ali Carter | Gary Wilson | Robbie McGuigan | Jak Jones |
| Xing Zihao | |||
| Kreishh Gurbaxani | |||
| Joshua Thomond |
| Group 9 | Group 10 | Group 11 | Group 12 June twenty fifth |
| Ma Hailong | Jackson Web page | Ryan Day | Jack Lisowski |
| Mark Davis | |||
| Jiang Jun | |||
| Anton Kazakov |
| Group 13 | Group 14 | Group 15 June twenty seventh |
Group 16 June twenty sixth |
| Si Jiahui | Hossein Vafaei | David Gilbert | Zhou Yuelong |
| Xu Si | Fan Zhengyi | ||
| Andrew Pagett | Alfie Burden | ||
| Duane Jones | Mink Nutcharut |
| Group 17 | Group 18 | Group 19 | Group 20 |
| Chris Wakelin | Stuart Bingham | Lengthy Zehuang | Stuart Carrington |
| Group 21 | Group 22 | Group 23 | Group 24 |
| Neil Robertson | Joe O’Connor | Michael White | Martin O’Donnell |
| Group 25 | Group 26 | Group 27 | Group 28 |
| Matthew Stevens | Alexander Ursenbacher | David Lilley | Wu Yize |
| Group 29 | Group 30 | Group 31 | Group 32 |
| Ben Woollaston | Jamie Jones | Ashley Carty | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh |
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