Stephen Hendry made a rare appearance at the World Snooker Tour Barokleyers.
The legendary seven-time world champion still has the opportunity to compete professionally behind a professional card.
But Hendry has rarely been on the track in recent seasons.
It was indeed only the fifth tournament of the 2023/24 campaign for the 55-year-old and marked his first outing since October.
Unfortunately for many of his fans, Hendry’s encounter with compatriot Ross Muir ended in similar fashion to his previous four clashes this season.
Four close frames were shared early in the match, but Muir pulled away late in the contest to win 4-2.
You have to go all the way back to the 2021 English Open to win Hendry’s last Main Event match.
The former world number one hopes to play in front of big nations again, but openly admits that he no longer does the training necessary to succeed at this level.
Hendry’s last two-year invitation card expires in May, and while it is widely expected that he will be offered another, it will be interesting to see if he accepts or not.
Elsewhere on the Welsh Open qualifying day, Scottish Open champion Gary Wilson and former world champion Graeme Dott won.
Wilson cruised to a 4-1 victory over Mark Davis, while Dott ended up in a close encounter with Pang Junxu.
Si Jiahui, last year’s World Cup semi-finalist, knocked out former Welsh Open champion Stephen Maguire.
Hossein Vafaei, Chris Wakelin and Matthew Stevens are among others to make it to next month’s Llandudno venue.
The first stages of the Welsh Open continue until Saturday at the Barnsley Metrodome.
The top 16, including reigning champion Robert Milkins and world champion Luca Brecel, missed the 128th round.
Welsh Open qualifiers
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Daniel Wells 4-2 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Gary Wilson 4-1 Mark Davis
Stephen Hendry 2-4 Ross Muir
Andrew Petrov 0-4 Anthony Hamilton Pang Junx
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Julien Leclercq 4-3 Alfie Burden
Chris Wakelin 4-0 Jimmy Robertson
Matthew Stevens 4-3 Louis Heatchote 4-4mad Rod Lawi 4-
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Long Zehuang vs Andy Lee
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4:00 PM UTC Mat Be vs 4. Kenna 4. 4 Oliver Lin Michaeles 4. Oliver 4. Thew Selt vs Sam Craigie
Aaron Car Hill vs Anton Kazakov Tunoj
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Rory Thor vs Ma Hailong
Jack Jones vs Liu Hongyu Zhengyi
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James Cahill vs Jamie Clarke
David Lilley vs Victor Sarkis
Ryan Thomerson vs Martin O’Donnell
Tom Ford vs Ben Woollaston
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Robert Milkins v Jamie Jones
Jack Lisowski v Oliver Brown
Mark Williams v John Astley
Neil Robertson v Juo D Jeneng
Neil Robertson v. Kendrick
Alexander Ursenbacher vs Riley Powell/Liam Davies
Judd Trump vs Liam Highfield
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Liam Graham
Zhang Anda vs Ahmed Carless 444 Slio Mursel Markless4 Ashley Carty
Barry Hawkins vs He Guoqiang.
