Home Nations £1m tournament

Well, when it's your week, it's your week. Chang has certainly put down a marker that he should be one to watch.

Somewhat amazed to think it's the 10th year of the Home Nations. As I recall, Marco Fu won that Scottish Open with a similar 8-in-a-row or thereabouts.

Welsh Open this week; some Beeb red button coverage. They opted to show Jak Jones v Liam Highfield, and maybe regretted it after a marathon 3rd frame.

Mark Selby started strongly, but ended up going out in a decider. He sounded somewhat chipper after losing to Mark Allen the other day, and even chipped in during Mark Williams' post-win interview too. But to no avail.

No rest for the wicked. The top players are back out already. Thankfully Zhao and Higgins both play tomorrow. That was a nice win for my player to watch, Jiang Jun, coming back from 3-1 to get the 4-3 upset against Selby. Maguire also came back from 3-1 down to beat Ricky Walden 4-3.

Wu Yize beat Ben Mertens 4-0. Wins also for Mark Wiliams and Neil Robertson. Tom Ford lost 4-2 to Martin O'Donnell. Si Jiahui lost by the same score to Robbie Williams.

David Grace has claimed an excellent 4-2 victory over Mark Allen. He got better and better as the match went on to get a deserved and badly needed win.

A ridiculous performance by Chang Bingyu to beat Shaun Murphy 4-0.

4 straight tons

You beat me to it. Fantastic performance from Chang, the boy done good.

McGill beat Carter 4-3. Not sure which one was the lesser evil, but Carter's out so I'll take it.

I was thinking about that whilst Mark Williams was getting rid of Michael Holt, who might make all the other candidates seem tolerable (that's asking for trouble).

We'll see whether there's some lesser lights still shining as the week wears on.

Further Welsh success as Jackson Page whitewashed Luca Brecel.

Zhao Xintong made 2 centuries in taking a 3-1 lead over Fan Zhengyi, but Fan pegged it back to 3-3 before Zhao got over the line with a break of 71.

Wins for John Higgins, Gary Wilson, Zhang Anda, Zhou Yuelong, Jack Lisowski and David Gilbert. Chris Wakelin lost 4-3 to Liam Pullen. Bulcsu Revesz beat Ryan Day 4-3.

Ronnie and Judd withdrew.