Antrim’s Mark Allen recorded his second 4-0 win at the Scottish Open as he eased past China\u2019s Wang Yuchen. <\/p>\n
Allen had opened up his tournament with a commanding 4-0 win over Ishpreet Singh Chadha on Tuesday, and he had little trouble on Wednesday, sealing his progression to the next round with a break of 109 in the fourth frame.<\/p>\n
Chinese opposition awaits again on Thursday as he faces Zhang Anda, who recorded a 4-0 win over Matthew Stevens, for a spot in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Home favourite John Higgins\u2019 pursuit of a third national title \u2013 and a first since 1996 \u2013 came to an end with a 4-0 loss to Noppon Saengkham in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
Fellow Scot Anthony McGill also failed to pick up a frame against Chris Wakelin. <\/p>\n
Mark Selby maintained his fine form to cruise into the last 16 of the by beating Iran’s Hossein Vafaei 4-0.<\/p>\n
World number six Selby, who announced his return to the top of the sport after a long spell in the doldrums by winning the UK Championship earlier this month, made breaks of 70 and 75 before sealing victory with a score of 131.<\/p>\n
Zhao Xintong opened with a 146-clearance against Joe O’Connor, but the reigning world champion won just one more frame in a 4-2 defeat as the Englishman hit back with the help of scores of 97 and 51.<\/p>\n
Kyren Wilson, world champion in 2024, made light work of China\u2019s Pang Junxu and Stuart Bingham was also a 4-1 winner, beating 2018 runner-up Shaun Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antrim’s Mark Allen recorded his second 4-0 win at the Scottish Open as he eased past China\u2019s Wang…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-197715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}