Last year's runner-up Muhammad Sajjad from Pakistan today made an early exit from the competition after losing last-64 match 0-4 from Ali Alijalil of Iraq.

Welsh player, Alex Taubman missed the maximum possible in snooker '147' while playing against Antti Tolvanen of Finland. Alex was in good form and had cleared all red-black combinations, but after potting the last black, his cue-ball landed in a difficult position for yellow. The only option left in that position was long pot, which he missed and the break finished on 120.

Alext Taubman from Wales finished his 6Reds match against Sander Tierolf (Netherlands) in record 25 minutes. Alex produced two breaks of 70 (TC) and 67 points to outplay Sander. Sander managed to get only 7 points in third frame as a foul from Alex. Eventually all frames remained blank for him. Scoreline: 70(70)-00, 43-00, 67(67)-07, 48-00