The three finals of the 2025 WPBSA Q Tour International Play-Offs at the moment are confirmed following the second day of motion in Antalya, Türkiye.
Six gamers from three nations stay in competition for the trio of two-year World Snooker Tour (WST) tour playing cards which can be on supply on Thursday.
The gamers will contest three best-of-19 body remaining spherical matches with the winner of every incomes their place among the many skilled ranks for the 2025/26 and 2026/27 campaigns.
HALLWORTH v JOYCE
Steven Hallworth and Mark Joyce will meet in an all-English remaining of the primary Q Tour International Play-Off after the 2 former professionals comfortably got here via their semi-final encounters.
Joyce hit the headlines by compiling the fourth most break in Q Tour historical past within the third body of his match towards Wales’ Dylan Emery.
Emery, who was the highest seed from the Q Tour Europe collection heading into the International Play-Offs, made a powerful begin and stormed right into a 2-0 lead with assist from a break of 120 within the opener.
The second of perfection from Joyce noticed him get his first body on the board and, from there, the 41-year-old stepped up a gear as additional contributions of 111 and 67 helped him to win six frames on the bounce and ebook his place within the remaining.
Former rating occasion semi-finalist Hallworth was in dominant kind within the different semi-final as he charged right into a 5-0 lead over fellow countryman Ryan Davies.
The 22-year-old managed to take the sixth body to keep away from to whitewash, but it surely proved to be too little too late as Hallworth took the following to recover from the road and arrange a gathering with Joyce tomorrow.
HIGHFIELD v BOIKO
The second Q Tour International Play-Off will see two former professionals compete for a return to the World Snooker Tour as England’s Liam Highfield meets Ukraine’s Iulian Boiko.
Highfield, who fell off the primary tour final yr after a 14-year spell, has dropped simply three frames thus far this week as he adopted up with 5-1 victory over Habib Humood with a 6-2 win towards Harvey Chandler this afternoon.
After dropping the opener, Highfield went on an unimaginable scoring run to compile consecutive breaks of 73, 74, 78, 71 and 87 and storm right into a 5-1 lead.
Chandler briefly rallied with a contribution of 73 earlier than his opponent continued his gorgeous kind to recover from the road with an extra effort of 74.
An epic contest lasting over 5 hours noticed Boiko full the second play-off’s remaining line-up.
In a scrappy affair, throughout which the Ukrainian scored a excessive break of simply 33, the 2 gamers went blow-for-blow all the best way earlier than the 19-year-old was in a position to pull himself over the road in a deciding body and get rid of the final remaining qualifier from exterior of the Q Tour Europe collection.
NUESSLE v PETROV
Austria and Estonia will face off with a spot within the skilled ranks at stake as Florian Nuessle and Andres Petrov meet within the remaining of the third Q Tour International Play-Off.
Austrian nationwide champion Nuessle was pressured to battle for his place within the title match as he trailed Iran’s Ehsan Heydari Nezhad on three separate events earlier than rallying to revive parity every time.
Having taken body seven to maneuver forward for the primary time, Nuessle then discovered his greatest type of the match as he compiled breaks of 114 and 61 to safe a 6-3 victory and transfer one away from incomes a World Snooker Tour card for the primary time in his profession.
There was some late evening drama in Antalya as Estonia’s Petrov accomplished the ultimate line-up with a post-midnight success.
The Q Tour occasion winner stormed right into a 4-0 lead on the mid-session interval however English teenager Oliver Sykes hit again to cut back his deficit to only one at 4-3.
Body eight proved to be very important as Petrov was in a position to steal it from behind with a break of 60 and he then took the following within the early hours of Thursday morning to arrange a remaining assembly with Nuessle.
The WPBSA Q Tour International Play-Offs finals happen on Thursday (13 March) and you’ll observe the occasion through WPBSA SnookerScores or watch reside on the WPBSA Fb web page and YouTube channel.
