Wednesday 13th April saw ‘Judgement Day’ take place at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge venue as the remaining 32 players, including three former world champions and a further three former world finalists, battled it out in best-of-19 contests on a day of huge drama to decide which sixteen men would qualify to join the world’s elite at the Crucible Theatre next week.
See the results below:
- Ding Junhui 10-2 Nigel Bond
- Peter Ebdon 10-2 Ian Burns
- Robbie Williams 10-9 Anthony Hamilton
- Graeme Dott 10-7 Mike Dunn
- Robert Milkins 10-7 Kurt Maflin
- Michael Holt 10-8 Mark King
- Alan McManus 10-2 Jimmy Robertson
- Ryan Day 10-6 Ken Doherty
- Kyren Wilson 10-6 Matthew Stevens
- Anthony McGill 10-7 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- Sam Baird 10-9 Liam Highfield
- David Gilbert 10-7 Jack Lisowski
- Mitchell Mann 10-9 Dechawat Poomjaeng
- Zhang Anda 10-7 Zhou Yuelong
- Ali Carter 10-6 Dominic Dale
- Liang Wenbo 10-6 Xiao Guodong