Michal Szubarczyk sets up all-teen clash at Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters after maiden professional win

Szubarczyk - who is only 14-years-old - sets up a round two meeting with 18-year-old Bulcsu Revesz of Hungary on Saturday in the £2.3 million world ranking event.

Against Davies, Szubarczyk crafted breaks of 68 and 56 as he established a 3-0 lead.

However, Davies - who was a Q-School top-up entry, but is a very accomplished amateur player with several junior national titles to his name - battled back, getting on the board with frame four before reducing the gap to just one with the aid of a 54 break.

The Polish youngster, though, secured frame six to register his maiden match win on snooker's top flight.

Szubarczyk earned his place on the World Snooker Tour earlier this year when he reached the final of the open-age EBSA European Amateur Snooker Championship held in Türkiye.

Having defeated former winner Harvey Chandler 4-3 in the semi-finals, Szubarczyk was denied the continental title by Liam Highfield, who won the final 5-0.

But due to Highfield having already won his place back on the pro circuit through the Global Q-Tour Playoffs only a few days before, the vacant tour card allocated to the European Champion was awarded to Szubarczyk for being next in-line as the runner-up.

Pundits in the snooker community knew of Szubarczyk's talents - he won the World Under-21 Championship in India last year - but few expected him to qualify for the professional ranks so soon.

After considering with his family, the teenager decided to accept the two-year World Snooker Tour card, and now he is mixing it with the best players on the planet.

Snooker's youngest-ever professional was dealt a brutal draw for his opening match when he faced former World Champion and current Masters Champion Shaun Murphy in the qualifying round for the Wuhan Open back in June.

There was no mercy from Murphy as he dished out a 5-0 whitewash, allowing his opponent to score a total of just 60 points throughout the entire tie.

A few days later, Szubarczyk was ousted 4-3 by Umut Dikme in the qualifying round for the British Open.

At the Championship League in July - a unique behind-closed-doors event that features round robins - Szubarczyk lost two of his three fixtures, although he did pick up a morale-boosting 2-2 draw with former European Masters ranking event champion Fan Zhengyi.

And now in the Middle East, Szubarczyk has picked up his first win and ranking points.

Elsewhere at the Green Halls on the opening of snooker’s ‘fourth major’, Irish youngster Leone Crowley - the reigning World Snooker Federation Junior Champion - defeated fellow teenager Ziyad Al Qabbani 4-2 on the main TV table.

Crowley went 2-0 ahead before Al Qabbani - an amateur wildcard from the host nation - levelled up at 2-2. However, Crowley reached the hill first before a 64 break in frame six assisted him in progressing.

Canada’s Sahil Nayyar notched up his maiden win as a professional. The 31-year-old - who gained his professional stripes by virtue of winning the Pan-American Snooker Championship - top scored with a run of 57 during a 4-1 win against amateur wildcard Habib Sabah from Bahrain.

Please visit our 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters tournament information centre here for the draw, results and other details on the event.