{"id":1194517,"date":"2026-09-09T05:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1194517\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:25:19","slug":"english-open-judd-trump-mark-selby-and-mark-williams-win-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1194517\/","title":{"rendered":"English Open: Judd Trump, Mark Selby and Mark Williams win in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mark Selby, Judd Trump, Mark Williams, Wu Yize and Barry Hawkins were among the players to progress from the first round of the English Open in Brentwood on Tuesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Selby, ranked second in the world rankings, was a 4-3 winner over fellow Englishman Ricky Walden. Despite leading 2-1 following breaks of 111 and 135 in frames two and three, Selby had trailed 3-2 before winning the last frame thanks to a break of 69.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump was a 4-0 winner over Northern Ireland&#8217;s Jordan Brown, while Wales&#8217; Mark Williams beat Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wu Yize and Barry Hawkins made it a clean sweep for players ranked in the top 10, beating Chinese duo Yang Gao and Lyu Haotin 4-1 and 4-2 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Selby will face China&#8217;s Zhang Anda in round two, while Trump faces Ashley Carty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Williams will take on Matthew Selt, Wu will face compatriot Xu Si and Hawkins will face either Gary Wilson or Daniel Wells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Murphy later beat Artemijs Zizins 4-2 to set up a second-round tie against Jamie Clarke, who beat David Gilbert 4-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Selby, Judd Trump, Mark Williams, Wu Yize and Barry Hawkins were among the players to progress from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1194518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1194517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117239423154679908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}