Three-time world champion Mark Williams is out of the 2025 Welsh Open after a 4-2 second-round defeat by Stephen Maguire.
Williams, twice a Welsh Open winner, lost the opening two frames before levelling the match at 2-2.
But two half-century breaks from Scotland’s Maguire booked his place in the third round at Llandudno’s Venue Cymru.
Williams was not the only former world champion knocked out in the second round, as Neil Robertson lost a deciding frame against Tom Ford.
Ford will face Jackson Page in the third round after the Welshman beat India’s Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-2 during Wednesday’s morning session.
The 23-year-old Page has equalled his best Welsh Open performance by reaching the third round, as he did back in 2017 when aged just 15.
Wednesday afternoon’s other big shock saw Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen beaten by China’s Yuan Sijun.
Allen had led 2-1, but was beaten in the final frame by the 24-year-old from Nanchang.
Sijun will face four-time world champion John Higgins in the third round.
Higgins breezed through his morning match with Robert Milkins, with breaks of over 50 in four straight frames to claim a 4-0 win.
Source link : https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/articles/c78x3j1eyxyo
Author :
Publish date : 2025-02-12 19:14:27
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The post Welsh Open: Mark Williams, Mark Allen and Neil Robertson among big names knocked out first appeared on PK Sports News.
—-
Author : pksportsnews
Publish date : 2025-02-12 22:35:34
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.