Sporting Digest: Snooker

BRITISH OPEN (Blackpool) Final qualifying round: E Hughes (Irl) bt S Prest (Eng) 5-2; B Rowswell (Eng) bt A Higgins (N Irl) 5-3; A Bishop (Eng) bt C Wilson (Wal) 5-1; J Wych (Can) bt R Marshall (Eng) 5-2; P Francisco (SA) bt D Wilson (Eng) 5-3; Y Merchant (Ind) bt D Finbow (Eng) 5-3; M Williams (Wal) bt J Birch (Eng) 5-0; R O'Sullivan (Eng) bt R Garrett (Eng) 5-1; T Meo (Eng) bt S Lanigan (Eng) 5-3; N Gilbert (Eng) bt M Macleod (Sco) 5-2; A Bolsover (Eng) bt L Dodd (Eng) 5-4; D Rippon (Eng) bt T Chappel (Wal) 5-4; I Brumby (Eng) bt E Charlton (Aus) w/o; C Thorburn (Can) bt R Leighton (Eng) 5-2; J Bodle (Eng) bt W Jones (Wal) 5-3; S O'Connor (Irl) bt S Newbury (Wal) 5-4.