Robertson, Higgins and Lisowski e-book travel to inaugural Xi'an Grand Prix with wins

Neil Robertson, John Higgins and Jack Lisowski displayed their magnificence on Thursday to achieve the final 64 of the inaugural Xi’an Grand Prix in China subsequent month.

After Higgins loved a 5-2 win over Alexander Ursenbacher within the afternoon consultation on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester, 2010 international champion Robertson eased previous Allan Taylor 5-2 with international No. 19 Lisowski finishing a 5-1 victory over Ross Muir.

Robertson slipped to twenty seventh on the planet after a forgettable 2023/24 marketing campaign, however compiled blistering knocks of 137, 131 and 65 at the back of closed doorways to e-book his travel to the event finals venue for subsequent month’s 2nd rating match of the season (19-25 August).

In other places, Lisowski best scored with 73 towards Muir whilst Higgins produced runs of 82, 63 and 67 in victory over Switzerland’s main participant Ursenbacher.

There was once additionally a dramatic win for former British Open winner Ryan Day, who watched Hong Kong’s Ka Wai Cheung roll in breaks of 116, 100 and 103 earlier than profitable the overall 3 frames from 4-2 at the back of boosted via 85 and 56 of his personal.

Day will face fellow Welshman Matthew Stevens within the spherical of 64 after the two-time international finalist whitewashed Andrew Higginson 5-0.

Qualifying continues on Friday with Luca Brecel taking over Hammad Miah at 2:30pm and Mark Williams dealing with Liam Graham at 7pm.

• Dominic Dale 5-4 Mohammed Shehab
• Neil Robertson 5-2 Allan Taylor
• Ben Mertens 5-4 Simon Blackwell
• Dylan Emery 5-2 Jackson Web page
• Jack Lisowski 5-1 Ross Muir
• Hossein Vafaei 5-1 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
• David Gilbert 5-1 Reanne Evans
• Matthew Stevens 5-0 Andrew Higginson
• Amir Sarkhosh 5-3 Joshua Thomond
• Artemijs Zizins 5-3 Robbie Williams
• Ryan Day 5-4 Ka Wai Cheung
• John Higgins 5-2 Alexander Ursenbacher
• Jordan Brown 5-2 Liam Pullen
• Bulcsu Revesz 5-0 David Grace
• He Guoqiang 5-4 Ashley Carty
• Sunny Akani 5-2 Fan Zhengyi
• Ma Hailong 5-3 Martin O’Donnell
• Jamie Jones 5-2 Mostafa Dorgham
• Xiao Guodong 5-2 Iulian Boiko
• Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-3 Lei Peifan
• Scott Donaldson w/o Lim Kok Leong