The qualifying event for the WSS 2020 British Open was played at Pot Black, Clacton, next week-end. The winner of the event will play Jimmy White in Plymouth on April, 3, 2020.

The draw for this event is now available:

As well as the format:

You will be able to follow the tournament here

Prelim matches

1 Adam Denham 2-3 Steve Field
2 Dharmendra Patel 0-3 George Apperley
3 John Palmer 3-2 Richard Wykes

Last 64

Rodney Goggins (Ire) –  Steven Porter Chell (Eng) W/O
Patsy Fagan (Ire) 3-2 Aidan Owens (Eng)
Lee S. Martin (Eng) 3-1 Boris Lazarov (Bul)
Wayne Townsend (Eng) 0-3 James O’Sullivan (Eng)
Richard Emery (Eng) 3-1 Dennis Tristram (Eng)
Dave Finbow (Eng) 3-0 Garry Coulson (Eng)
Michael Wrigley (Eng) 1-3 Steve Field
Matt Ford (Eng) 0-3 Stuart Watson (Eng)
Aaron Canavan (Jer) 3-0 Kevin Kelly (Jer)
Bal Sembi (Eng) 3-0 Ady Holley (Gue)
Tony Knowles (Eng) 3-0 George Apperley
Ray Grall (Eng) 0-3 Jon Charlton (Eng)
Les Dodd (Eng) 2-3 Johnny Stevens (Eng)
Gary Britton (Jer) W/0  Paul Reading
Neil Craycraft (Eng) 3-0 Dean Venables (Eng)
Neil Carroll (Eng) 0-3 Lee Richardson (Eng)

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Michael Judge (Ire) 3-0 John Palmer
Marcus Lord (Eng) 3-0 Daren Mirza (Eng)
Stephen Campbell (Eng) 3-0 Steve Bird (Eng)
Philip Blackburn (Eng) 1-3 Cary Kikis (Eng)
Gary Filtness (Eng) 3-0 David Brock (Eng)
Karl Townsend (Eng) 3-2 Gary Millar (Eng)
James Brown (Eng) W/0 – Mark Sutton (Eng)
Adrian Atkins (Eng) 0-3 Jonathan Bagley (Eng)
Wayne Cooper (Eng) 3-0 Simon Chandler (Eng)
Mark White (Eng) 3-0 Kevin Palmer (Eng)
Mark Ball (Eng) 3-1 Colin Mitchell (Eng)
Andrew Darken (Eng) 0-3 Sean Lanigan (Eng)
Dean Sycamore (Eng) 3-1 Ian Spawton (Eng)
Garoid O’Connor (Eng) 3-1 Anthony Massey (Eng)
Bradley Jones (Eng) 2-3 Mark Gray (Eng)
Patrick Wallace (Ire) 3-0 James Farrow (Eng)

Last 32

Steven Porter Chell 1-3 Patsy Fagan
Lee S.Martin 3-2 James O’Sullivan
Richard Emery 1-3 Dave Finbow
Steve Field 0-3 Stuart Watson
Aaron Canavan 3-1 Bal Sembi
Tony Knowles 3-2 Jon Charlton
Johnny Stevens 2-3 Gary Britton
Neil Craycraft 1-3 Lee Richardson

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Michael Judge 3-2 Marcus Lord
Stephen Campbell 3-2 Cary Kikis
Gary Filtness 1-3 Karl Townsend
James Brown 3-2 Jonathan Bagley
Wayne Cooper 3-2 Mark White
Mark Ball 2-3 Sean Lanigan
Dean Sycamore 0-3 Garoid O’Connor
Mark Gray 3-2 Patrick Wallace

Aaron Canavan missed the yellow after potting 15 reds with blacks in his match v Bal Sembi. 

Last 16

Patsy Fagan 3-1 Lee S. Martin
Dave Finbow 1-3 Stuart Watson
Aaron Canavan 3-2 Tony Knowles
Gary Britton 3-0 Lee Richardson

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Michael Judge 3-0 Stephen Campbell
Karl Twonsend 3-1 James Brown
Wayne Cooper 3-0 Sean Lanigan
Garoid O’Connor 2-3 Mark Gray

QFs

Patsy Fagan 3-2 Stuart Watson
Aaron Canavan 3-2 Gary Britton

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Michael Judge 3-0 Karl Townsend
Wayne Cooper 3-1 Mark Gray

SFs

Patsy Fagan 2-4 Aaron Canavan

Michael Judge 4-3 Wayne Cooper

The Final

Aaron Canavan 2-4 Michael Judge

And there is also a Super Seniors event:

This is the last Super Seniors event of the season.

Preliminary matches

1. Richard Emery 2-0 Neil Caroll
2. Richard Wykes 0-2 Colin Mitchell

Last 16

Gary Filtness 2-0 Kevin Kelly
Gary Miller 1-2 Les Dodd
Steven Porter Chell 0-2 Tony Knowles
Richard Emery 2-1 Ray Grail

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George Apperley 0-2 Dharmendra Patel
Steve Field 0-2 David Brock
Colin Mitchell 2-1 Dennis Tristram
Patsy Fagan – Ian Spawton W/O

QFs

Gary Filtness 2-0 Les Dodd
Tony Knowles 1-2 Richard Emery

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Dharmendra Patel 0-2 David Brock
Colin Mitchell 2-0 Ian Spawton

SFs

Gary Filtness 2-0 Richard Emery

David Brock 0-2 Colin Mitchell

This SF win means that it’s Gary Filtness who will play in the 6-reds Championship in Coleraine in June. In fact Gary needed just one frame.

Here is Gary’s reaction right after the match. It says everything about how much it matters for those players. The competive beast in them never dies!

The Final

Gary Filtness 2-1 Colin Mitchell

An emotional Gary dedicated his win to Billy O’Connor:

Billy O’Connor was a talented young snooker player, and even more than that, a remarkable young person, who was taken away by ilness at the age of 18. Billy never stopped to fight, and never stopped to smile. He was managed by The Grove, for years Ronnie O’Sullivan’s management and he often played at Upton Park with Gary. Very ill himself, in his last months Billy was still playing snooker and trying to raise money to support fellow teenagers sufferers.

Here is the tribute written by WPBSA  when Billy passed away.