Jimmy White turns back clock in whitewash victory at UK Championship snooker, Ng On Yee claims win

ByEurosport

Updated 06/11/2022 at 07:02 GMT

Jimmy White celebrated his 30th anniversary of winning the UK Championship with a 6-0 whitewash of Brazil's Victor Sarkis in his opening qualifier at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. The Whirlwind carried off one of the sport's biggest events with a 16-9 success against John Parrott at the old Guild Hall in Preston in 1992 and has lost none of his potting prowess three decades on.

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Jimmy 'Whirlwind' White enjoyed an impressive 6-0 whitewash victory in the opening round of the UK Championship qualifiers - 30 years after he won the event.

The former Masters champion lifted the UK with a 16-9 success against fellow Englishman John Parrott in Preston in 1992 and celebrated the momentous anniversary with another comfortable win on Saturday at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.

Facing Brazilian hopeful Victor Sarkis – the 2021 Pan-American champion who was born a year before his UK title triumph – White showed why class is permanent as breaks of 50, 92 and 55 helped him ease through to a meeting with Mitchell Mann in the second round on Sunday afternoon.

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The six-time world finalist will need to win another three matches to reach the last 32 at the York Barbican and is also in line to meet 2004 UK winner Stephen Maguire in his penultimate qualifier if he can overcome Mann.

But the three-time World Seniors champion will be buoyed by being the first player through on Saturday morning.

Three-time women's world champion Ng On Yee completed a 6-4 win over rookie Jenson Kendrick that included a 91 break in the opening frame.

Her reward is a meeting with former UK champion Matthew Stevens in the second round on Sunday evening.

Qualifying runs until Thursday with 16 players taking their place in the last 32 alongside the world's top 16 at the Barbican in York (November 12-20, live on Eurosport).