Jack Lisowski won’t have an opportunity to compete in Cheltenham this season after losing in the British Open qualifiers on Wednesday.
The Cheltenham cueist would have been hoping to use the local support at the Centaur to help boost his chances of securing a maiden ranking title.
But Lisowski produced a disappointing performance in his round-of-128 fixture at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester and lost 4-2 to David Grace.
The 33 year-old had a poor second half to the 2023/24 campaign that saw him drop out of the top 16 in the world rankings.
Although he managed to successfully emerge from his qualifying fixtures for the Xi’an Grand Prix and the Wuhan Open, Lisowski won’t be featuring at the venue stages of the British Open.
Grace, who had lost both of his recent preliminary-round matches and was in need of a stronger display, compiled breaks of 101, 58, and 54.
Elsewhere, Si Jiahui and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh moved through in the competition with respective defeats of David Lilley and Alexander Ursenbacher.
Noppon Saengkham, who will be looking to break into the top 16 for the first time in his career this season, edged Joe Perry in a deciding frame.
The Thai, a finalist in last season’s Scottish Open, contributed a brace of century breaks before clinching a close last frame.
Michael Holt secured only his second victory since returning to the World Snooker Tour as a professional, meanwhile.
The former Shoot Out champion, who dominated last season’s amateur Q Tour, easily dismantled Reanne Evans’ challenge with a 4-0 scoreline.
Mark Davis, Martin O’Donnell, and Jamie Clarke also progressed with one-sided victories.
Among the others to make it through to the last 64 were Ma Hailong, Allan Taylor, Liam Graham, and amateur top-up Iulian Boiko.
The British Open qualifiers continue on Thursday with Stephen Maguire, Hossein Vafaei, and Jimmy White representing a few of the higher-profile names in action.
The top 16 seeds have all had their initial clashes in the ranking tournament held over to the venue stages in September.
2024 British Open qualifying draw and schedule
Round of 128 (bo7)
Wednesday, July 31
Si Jiahui 4-2 David Lilley
Alexander Ursenbacher 1-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 1-4 Jamie Clarke
Iulian Boiko 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
Artiemijs Zizins 3-4 Allan Taylor
Mink Nutcharut 1-4 Liam Graham
Robbie McGuigan 0-4 Mark Davis
David Grace 4-2 Jack Lisowski
Ma Hailong 4-2 Jimmy Robertson
Noppon Saengkham 4-3 Joe Perry
Martin O’Donnell 4-1 Mitchell Mann
Michael Holt 4-0 Reanne Evans
Thursday, August 1
10am UTC+1
Xu Si vs Ken Doherty
Fan Zhengyi vs Zhou Yuelong
Ricky Walden vs Liu Hongyu
1pm UTC+1
Andrew Pagett vs Neil Robertson
Xing Zihao vs Stuart Carrington
Jimmy White vs Chris Totten
4pm UTC+1
Mostafa Dorgham vs Hossein Vafaei
Chris Wakelin vs Haydon Pinhey
Amir Sarkhosh vs Ashley Carty
7pm UTC+1
Jiang Jun vs Stephen Maguire
Duane Jones vs Dominic Dale
Ahmed Elsayed vs Anton Kazakov
Friday, August 2
10am UTC+1
Xiao Guodong vs Huang Jiahao
Kok Leong Lim vs Anthony Hamilton
Stuart Bingham vs He Guoqiang
1pm UTC+1
Joe O’Connor vs Stan Moody
Jamie Jones vs Yuan Sijun
Wang Yuchen vs Hammad Miah
4pm UTC+1
Joshua Thomand vs Marco Fu
Liam Pullen vs Long Zehuang
Alfie Burden vs Andrew Higginson
7pm UTC+1
Antoni Kowalski vs Daniel Wells
Matthew Selt vs Ben Woollaston
Sunny Akani vs Daniel Womersely
Saturday, August 3
10am UTC+1
Simon Blackwell vs Bai Yulu
Cheung Ka Wai vs Kreishh Gurbaxani
Oliver Lines vs Lei Peifan
1pm UTC+1
Baipat Siripaporn vs Wu Yize
Lyu Haotian vs Anthony McGill
Scott Donaldson vs Tian Pengfei
4pm UTC+1
Graeme Dott vs Matthew Stevens
David Gilbert vs Dylan Emery
Dean Young vs Haris Tahir
7pm UTC+1
Zak Surety vs Ben Mertens
Joshua Cooper vs Elliot Slessor
Jackson Page vs Robbie Williams
Heldover Matches
Monday, September 23
Schedule TBC
Mark Williams vs Rory Thor
John Higgins vs Ross Muir
Ali Carter vs Révész Bulcsú
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Mark Selby vs Pang Junxu
Tom Ford vs Gong Chenzhi
Ryan Day vs Louis Heathcote
Judd Trump vs Robert Milkins
Mark Allen vs Gary Wilson
Zhang Anda vs Jordan Brown
Jak Jones vs Sanderson Lam
Luca Brecel vs Mohammed Shehab
Ding Junhui vs Aaron Hill
Barry Hawkins vs Liam Davies
Shaun Murphy vs Ian Burns
Kyren Wilson vs Julien Leclercq
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