Held in Milton Keynes, as actual Europe is unsafe c/o covid; coverage started today on EuroSport.
Mark Selby was a shock exit today, 5-3 to Jordan Brown
Judd Trump and John Higgins went yesterday.
Neil Robertson lost a decider today, and even Yan Bingtao bit the dust. Some big names left, quite a few small names too though.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Graeme Dott
Liang Wenbo
er... Zhengyi Fan
I wonder who might be the winner out of that final 4, mmm?
Fan turned Dott over 6-4 to reach his first ranking final. Quite the season for new Chinese players.
Ronnie saw off Liang 6-2.
Surprisingly still 6-6 at the final interval. Fan is putting up a much stronger fight than anyone might have expected. He even started this evening with a career best break of 135!
Fan finished the job 10-9, quite amazing. Well done.
This years tournament already well underway in Nuremberg but without Ronnie O'Sullivan who withdrew allowing Andy Hicks to get in as a wildcard.
Biggest casualty of round one was Neil Robertson who was beaten by Wu Yize.
So far in round two Thepchaiya un Nooh has whitewashed Mark Allen.
Elsewhere Luca Brecel, Mark Selby and Mark Williams are all safely into round three.