The opening day of the 2025 WPBSA Q Tour World Play-Offs has reached its conclusion and simply 12 gamers now stay in competition for the three World Snooker Tour (WST) tour playing cards on supply.
Cueists from seven nations and three continents are amongst these left standing within the competitors and by the tip of tomorrow the three ultimate spherical matches can be identified.
The occasion is being held alongside the EBSA European Championships in Antalya, Türkiye from 11-13 March 2025.
PLAY-OFF 1
Q Tour Europe prime seed Dylan Emery was amongst these to safe his passage into the World Play-Off semi-finals on the opening morning of the occasion in Antalya, Türkiye.
The 23-year-old Welshman, who gained the second occasion of the marketing campaign in Bulgaria, comfortably overcame Iran’s Ali Gharahgozlou 5-2 with a pair of half-century breaks alongside the best way.
In probably the most dramatic contest of the highest part, England’s Ryan Davies got here from 4-3 behind in opposition to fellow countryman and former skilled Kuldesh Johal to earn victory within the decider.
Davies had led 2-0 however, regardless of compiling a break of 97 within the sixth body to revive parity, it was Johal who moved one away from the profitable line at 4-3 forward.
The 22-year-old held his nerve, nonetheless, to take body eight on the black earlier than taking the decider on the final pink having earlier trailed by 37 factors.
Davies is joined within the final 4 of the primary play-off by fellow Englishmen Steven Hallworth and Mark Joyce.
Joyce confirmed some high quality kind in his opening encounter with Connor Benzey and hit breaks of 82, 76 and 51 en path to a 5-2 victory. In the meantime, Hallworth was compelled to work laborious in opposition to former World Snooker Federation (WSF) champion Luo Honghao from China however finally held his nerve to take the concluding two frames and earn a 5-3 win.
PLAY-OFF 2
Australia’s Vinnie Calabrese earned a powerful 5-1 victory over former rating occasion semi-finalist Craig Steadman to maintain the flag flying for the WPBSA Q Tour Asia-Pacific sequence.
Calabrese, who gained 4 of the 5 Q Tour occasions within the area, impressed with a prime break of 62 to succeed in the final 4 and prolong Steadman’s look forward to a return to the skilled ranks.
A trio of fellow former professionals from Europe be a part of Calabrese within the semi-finals of the second play-off.
Ukraine’s Iulian Boiko, who compiled the third most break in Q Tour historical past in Belgium earlier this season, defeated England’s Alex Clenshaw 5-2 to succeed in the final 4.
The English duo of Harvey Chandler and Liam Highfield dropped only a single body between then as Chandler whitewashed Brazil’s Dhimones Moraes with a prime break of 79 whereas Highfield swept apart Bahrain’s Habib Humood by a 5-1 scoreline.
PLAY-OFF 3
4 gamers from 4 completely different nations earned their place within the semi-finals of the third Q Tour World Play-Off.
There have been upsets within the closing session of the opening day as former professionals Ryan Thomerson and Sean O’Sullivan succumbed to defeats in opposition to Iran’s Ehsan Heydari Nezhad and England’s Oliver Sykes every by a 5-1 scoreline.
Austrian nationwide champion Florian Nuessle moved one step nearer to securing skilled standing for the primary time in his profession as he defeated Josh Thomond 5-3 to arrange a final 4 assembly with Nezhad.
A late night time end between Estonia’s Andres Petrov, who gained the primary Q Tour Europe title of the season, and Canada’s Vito Puopolo finally noticed the Estonian safe a 5-2 victory.
The WPBSA Q Tour World Play-Offs semi-finals happen tomorrow (12 March) and you may observe the occasion by way of WPBSA SnookerScores or watch dwell on the WPBSA Fb web page and YouTube channel.
