Bai Yulu added another victory to her impressive debut pro season as she beat Liam Pullen 5-4 in the first qualifying round of the Machineseeker German Masters.
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China’s 21-year-old Bai will face Yuan Sijun on Tuesday afternoon with the winner to go through to the final stages of this world ranking event at the Tempodrom in Berlin in the new year.
Last month, Bai won three qualifying matches in the Victorian Plumbing UK Championship, and she followed up with a first round win at the 9Club Shoot Out, and notched another success today against world number 90 Pullen. Breaks of 56 and 66 gave her a 2-1 lead, and she later came from 4-3 down to take the last two frames.
Ken Doherty, recently recovered from an umbilical hernia operation, earned his first win of the season with a 5-4 defeat of Oliver Lines. From 4-0 down, Lines recovered to 4-4 and led 53-0 in the decider, only for veteran Doherty to snatch it with a superb 66 clearance.
Julien Leclercq top scored with 131 in a 5-2 win over Jimmy White, while Stan Moody fired runs of 108 and 133 in a 5-0 whitewash of Ahmed Aly Elsayed. Artemijs Zizins made a 94 in the decider to edge out Kreishh Gurbaxani 5-4.
