White, Wilson and Bingham suffer defeats in German Masters qualifiers

ByEurosport

Updated 21/12/2023 at 00:00 GMT

Jimmy White, Stuart Bingham and Gary Wilson were all dumped out of the German Masters on Wednesday in the qualifying round, but there were victories for ranking event winners Zhang Anda, Matthew Stevens and Jordan Brown at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. The German Masters will be staged by the Tempodrom in Berlin next month (29 January-4 February) and is live on Eurosport and discovery+.

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Jimmy White’s hopes of another extended run at the German Masters were dashed by a 5-2 defeat to Pang Junxu in the qualifiers in Sheffield.

The six-time world finalist enjoyed a run to the last 16 at the Tempodrom in Berlin in February, but lost the closing four frames to Pang at Ponds Forge on Wednesday with the former WST Classic finalist producing breaks of 114 and 102 in booking his trip to Germany next month (29 January-4 February).

He was joined in the last 64 by Scott Donaldson, who brought two-time Scottish Open champion Gary Wilson crashing back to earth with a 5-4 win late on Wednesday night.

Wilson claimed back-to-back titles in Edinburgh with a 9-5 win over Noppon Saengkham on Sunday, but lost the final frame on the black to Donaldson, who recovered from trailing 56-0 in the decider to reach the second round with a closing knock of 58.

Scotsman Donaldson also produced runs of 115, 84, 70, 58 and 58 with Wilson top scoring with a 55 in the fifth frame.

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18-year-old rookie Liam Pullen completed a 5-1 win over 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham 5-1 with breaks of 73, 80, 56 and 72, while International champion Zhang Anda produced 133 in a 5-3 victory over Mostafa Dorgham.

Elsewhere, former Welsh Open champion Jordan Brown compiled a sparkling 142 as he came 4-2 down to complete a 5-4 win over Long Zehuang.

Brown also trailed 51-0 in the decider, but a 69 break was enough to book his flight to Germany.

Latest results

Andrew Higginson 5-4 Jiang JunZhang Anda 5-3 Mostafa DorghamJordan Brown 5-4 Long ZehuangFan Zhengyi 5-1 Cao YupengAlfie Burden 4-5 Peng YisongStuart Bingham 1-5 Liam PullenAndy Hicks 2-5 Joe O’ConnorHammad Miah 3-5 Jamie ClarkePang Junxu 5-2 Jimmy WhiteHaydon Pinhey 5-3 Rod LawlerGary Wilson 4-5 Scott DonaldsonAnton Kazakov 3-5 Matthew Stevens