Round-up from the opening day of the 2024 Wuhan Open snooker in China

The opening day's action at the China Optics Valley Convention & Exhibition Centre saw the completion of the remaining round one matches and the beginning of round two.

World number one and tournament favourite Trump stated his intentions as he made breaks of 101 and 105 in consecutive frames to lead youngster Kowalski, 4-0, at the mid-session interval.

Professional rookie Kowalski avoided the whitewash on resumption, but Trump crafted a 123 in frame six to progress into the last 64 with a hat-trick of tons to his name.

Elsewhere in the first round, World Champion Kyren Wilson totted up a pair of century breaks (109 and 123) in a 5-1 win against teenager Liam Davies while home hero Ding Junhui collected his first ranking points of the 2024/25 season as he recovered from 2-0 down to defeat Robbie McGuigan, 5-2.

Yuan Sijun (102 break) and Martin O’Donnell saw off local wildcard opposition via whitewash; Jordan Brown registered runs of 100 and 111 as he too got the better of an invited Chinese amateur.

Zhang Anda comfortably went through to the next round, and Mark Joyce - Ronnie O’Sullivan’s replacement in the draw - notched up six breaks over 50 during his win.

Neil Robertson eliminated by Jackson Page

In a second round fixture, Welshman Jackson Page recorded a 5-1 triumph against recently crowned English Open champion Neil Robertson.

Robertson compiled a break of 118 to level the tie at 1-1, but that was the only frame that the 2010 World Champion secured as 23-year-old Page - runner-up at the Championship League back in the summer - strung together the next four frames, finishing in style with an effort of 102.

Teenager Stan Moody's fine form and sequence of results continue as he ousted four-time ranking event champion Ryan Day, 5-4.

Day (102 break, frame two) led 3-1 at the interval, but Moody shifted momentum with three frames in-a-row to reach the hill first at 4-3 up.

The 18-year-old English cueist had a chance for victory in frame eight, but missed a fiddly match-ball pink and sat down as Day sank the pink at distance and deposited the subsequent black to force the contest all the way.

Both players had early opportunities in the decider, but a second missed black in the frame proved costly for Day, as Moody showed mental resolve and ultimately punished to reach the last 32. Moody faces Barry Hawkins next as 'The Hawk' top scored with a 100 in a 5-3 win over Jimmy Robertson.

Last year’s runner-up in the inaugural edition of the Wuhan Open Ali Carter battled back from two down with three to play, turning a 4-2 deficit into a 5-4 win to keep his ambitions alive in China and deny opponent Mark Davis.

Duane Jones - conqueror of Luca Brecel in the 'qualifying round' held in Leicester in July - came back from 3-0 down to pip Ishpreet Singh Chadha, 5-3. Jones constructed a 134 in frame five.

Pang Junxu swept aside Matt Selt, 5-0, and Jack Lisowski sewed up a speedy 5-1 success against Iulian Boiko, fashioning contributions of 103 and 106 in frames five and six, respectively. This year’s World Championship runner-up Jak Jones arranged a round three date with Lisowski as he got the better of Tian Pengfei, 5-3; a result he highlighted with a break of 101 in frame seven.

Chris Wakelin, Long Zehuang, Marco Fu and David Lilley were the other round two victors. Former World Seniors Snooker Champion Lilley - who made a 121 earlier in the contest - squeezed past Allan Taylor via a deciding frame.

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