Three-time world champion Mark Williams is out of the 2025 Welsh Open after a 4-2 second-round defeat by Stephen Maguire.
Williams, twice a Welsh Open winner, misplaced the opening two frames earlier than levelling the match at 2-2.
However two half-century breaks from Scotland’s Maguire booked his place within the third spherical at Llandudno’s Venue Cymru.
Williams was not the one former world champion knocked out within the second spherical, as Neil Robertson misplaced a deciding body in opposition to Tom Ford.
Ford will face Jackson Web page within the third spherical after the Welshman beat India’s Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4-2 throughout Wednesday’s morning session.
The 23-year-old Web page has equalled his finest Welsh Open efficiency by reaching the third spherical, as he did again in 2017 when aged simply 15.
Wednesday afternoon’s different massive shock noticed Northern Eire’s Mark Allen overwhelmed by China’s Yuan Sijun.
Allen had led 2-1, however was overwhelmed within the last body by the 24-year-old from Nanchang.
Sijun will face four-time world champion John Higgins within the third spherical.
Higgins breezed by his morning match with Robert Milkins, with breaks of over 50 in 4 straight frames to say a 4-0 win.
