Sporting Digest: Snooker

ALEX HIGGINS has been requested by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association to attend an inquiry in connection with a 'possible breach' of disciplinary rules. The incident or incidents are said to have taken place at this year's Embassy World Championship in Sheffield.

UK CHAMPIONSHIP (Blackpool) Third qualifying round: M Bailey bt W Rendle 5-4; S Dunn bt M Canovan 5-4; G Peters bt I Trimble 5-3; M Geudens bt S Suwannasingh 5-2; A Bishop bt T Bell 5-2; M Roughan bt L Marney 5-4; P Browne bt J Singh 5-3; M Macleod bt L Wai Lee 5-4; C Gilcreest bt G Cripsey 5-0; S Archer bt W Jerran 5-2; S Chong bt B Oliver 5-0; R Batty bt P Florence 5-4; D Zagaroli bt D McGlinchey 5-2; G Baldrey b N Segal 5-0; G Dunn bt P Wykes 5-4; P Seaton bt S Lynskey 5-0; A Cheema bt A Duff 5- 2; S Morris bt R Fabrie 5-2; S Prest bt A Essilfie 5-1; K Townsend bt G Ponting 5-4; I Jones bt D Paris 5-3; M Dziewialtowski bt N Tomkins 5-3; S Beggiato bt G Chilcott 5-0; I McCulloch bt A Krasinski 5-3; P Clarke bt P Gilchrist 5-3; M O'Neill bt T Parry 5-2; S Ventham bt J Linehan 5-1; R Chapman bt G Williams 5-3; P Davison bt M Wehrmann 5-4; S Whalley bt J Canny 5-3; M Nixon bt S Duggan 5-4; P Thomerson bt D Hackeson 5-1; K Burrows bt C Groves 5-1; M Dunn bt R Culham 5-3; S Hillyard bt W Lloyd

5-0; G McDonald bt J Greaves 5-4; A Taylor bt G Lees 5-1; J Shilton bt A Buckley 5-3; J Pegram bt P Hefford 5-4; D Murphy bt D Hughes 5-4; J Vicarey bt M Fisher 5-1; M Bailey bt W Rendle

5-4; M Gray bt A Coutts 5-0.