Day Five – Thursday 5th August

First Session

Today’s play started with an encounter between Ali Alobdali from Qatar and Benedikt Griesdorn from Germany. Ali had a break in the first frame of 50 and a 95 in the sixth to win by 4 frames to 2. Khalid Khamali from UAE and Ross Higgins from Scotland met in Group C and Khamali came out on top at 4 frames to 1.

Aleksi Tenkula from Finland lost his match against Kusai Sharif from Libya by 4 frames to 1 in Group I. Vermeiren from Belgium had breaks of 52 and 64 in frames 3 and 4 to win his match 4-1 against Karim Metwaly from Egypt in Group H. Shaun Dalitz from Australia won four frames against Dempsey from Ireland in his match in Group I.

Kurt Brown and Abdullah Alsubhi from Group J had a match that went in the favour of Brown by a score line of 4 frames to 1. The Match against England’s Nick Jennings and Northern Ireland’s Dylan Murray was a one sided affair with Jennings having breaks of 54 and 62 in a straightforward 4-0 win. The final match of the session saw Maltese player Thurston Grixti win 4-1 against Vladyslav Vyshnevskyy.

Second Session

The session started with a good win for Irishman Josh Boileau winning a close match against Roman Dietzel from Germany by 4 frames to 1. Aaron Busuttil of Malta lost in Group J to Jurian Heusdens from Belgium by 4 frames to 1. Shachar Ruberg from Israel had a fantastic win against Li Hang from China in Group B. Ruberg had breaks of 50, 62 and 80 to take the win by 4 frames to 1. Li Yan from China was an easy winner with a four nil score line in his match against Mostafa Gebaly in Group A.

Robert Carlisle the in form Scotsman came up against the on form Irishman Vinny Muldoon. The match was one of the best so far in the Championships. Carlisle took the first, he also took the second with a 57 break. Muldoon hit back with a 55 in the third to take the frame. Carlisle then had a 57 in the next to take a 3-1 lead. But Muldoon was in great match play form as he took the next three frames in an amazing 4-3 win.

Mayoe from Thailand only lost one frame to Al Bairaq in the Group A match . Mayoe had a break of 76 in his 4-1 victory. Pakpoj from Thailand had a resounding victory over Biernadski from Poland by 4 frames to 0 in Group B. Irishman Sean Conway also had an easy win by 4 frames to 0 in Group B including breaks of 58 and 77 against Japan’s Toyoda Kyota.

Third Session

In this session Osama Anga from Libya won a close match against against Benjamin MCCabe from Sweden by 4 frames to 3. Khalid Khamali from UAE won his match by 4 framees to 1 in Group C against Janne Saarela from Finland. Stephen Cragie from England beat Ross Higgins from Scotland in Group C by 4 frames to 1 in a convincing win.

Mitchell Van Den Bergh from the Netherlands lost his match 4-1 against Sweden’s K.Salam Suleman in Group B. Campbell Dunlop from Scotland was in fine form as he took his match against Arya Sohrabi by the score line of 4 frames to one, which included a break of 95 in the second.

New Zealander Shannon Swain had a comfortable 4-0 win over Germany’s Marius Wiese in a Group D encounter. Group C saw a match between Jason Devaney of Ireland and Sam Bond of New Zealand. Devaney won the frst and had a break of 77 in the second on the way to a four nil victory. Another Irishman was pushed to 3-3 by Yun Shing Wong of China Hong Kong in a Goup D match before Moore had two decisive visits to the table in the decider to win the match by 4 frames to 3.

Fourth Session

The session started with a win for Alexander Gauss from Austria with a 4 frames to 2 victory over France’s Brian Ochoiski. Kishan Hirani outscored Michael Leslie from Scotland in adeciding frame of their Group F Clash. Rhys Clarke from Wales was a winner against Julius Grauls from Belgium. Clarke knocked in a break of 80 in the sixth frame to win by 4 frames to 2.

Greg Casey from Ireland flew through 4 frames, which included a break of 105 in his four nil victory over Adam Stefanow of Poland. Declan Brennan won by 4 frames to 1 in his match against China Hong Kong’s Simon Lee including a break of 53 in the fifth frame.

Fifth & final Session from day 5

The final session had Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah A. Alatyani Play Ali Alobaidli from Qatar. Alobaidi won the match 4-0 without any real challenge from Alatyani. Mohammed Alsenan lost to Stephen Reddington from Ireland by 4 frames to 1.

Kristof Vermeiren of Belgium also had an easy win over Ukraine’s Vyshnevskyy. Kristof had a 69 in the third frame on his way to a resounding 4-0 victory.