Michal Szubarczyk, 15, makes snooker historical past after changing into the youngest winner of a World Snooker Championship match; this 12 months’s event begins on April 18 and runs till Might 4 at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield
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Michal Szubarczyk of Poland made historical past in World Snooker Championship qualifying
Michal Szubarczyk turned the youngest winner of a World Snooker Championship match within the first qualifying spherical.
Aged simply 15 years, two months, and 25 days, the Polish prodigy beat the earlier report that was set by Liam Davies in 2022 as he defeated Hong Kong star Ng On Yee 10-7 on day one of many World Championship qualifiers on the English Institute of Sport.
Three-time girls’s world snooker champion, Ng, got here into the match on a excessive after claiming wins on the ladies’s tour in February and March.
“I feel very proud,” Szubarczyk informed the World Snooker Tour.
“I’m very excited to play the next match, and maybe this year or next year, I can become the youngest Crucible player.
“For me, it is the primary objective of each participant in skilled snooker [to play in the World Championship]. I am having fun with the stress. It does not work in a nasty method for me.
“I even like it, and I think that’s good. For the last six years, I have been dreaming about playing at the Crucible.
“I really like representing Poland. With out the Polish occasions I would not be right here, as a result of I would not have had the chance to play at European or World Championships.”
Szubarczyk has to win three more matches to become the youngest qualifier for the Crucible Theatre.
If he does, he will surpass the record held by Luca Brecel, who made his Crucible debut in 2012 aged 17 years and 45 days.
Jimmy White has not performed on the World Championship since 2006
Six-time World Snooker Championship finalist Jimmy White bowed out within the first qualifying spherical to Gao Yang in agonising vogue.
The snooker legend, who turns 64 subsequent month, established an early 5-1, however the 21 year-old from China battled again with the match determined in a final-frame thriller, received by Gao.
It means White’s 20-year wait to return to the Crucible continues – regardless of making an attempt to qualify yearly.
