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