{"id":465864,"date":"2025-10-01T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:33:11","slug":"mark-allen-loses-out-in-international-championship-qualifier-in-sheffield-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465864\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Allen loses out in International Championship qualifier in Sheffield \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MARK Allen lost his qualifying match for the International Championship in Sheffield on Wednesday, going down 6-4 to England\u2019s Mitchell Mann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Antrim man struggled for fluency until breaks of 85 and 82 drew him level at 4-4 from 4-2 down. However, the world number 84 took the last two to seal progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ken Doherty took a notable scalp on Tuesday evening when he beat Stan Moody 6-5. The veteran Dubliner was pegged back from 5-3 ahead by breaks of 76 and 51 from the 18-year-old, but then prevailed in the decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coalisland rookie Fergal Quinn is due to play Hossein Vafaei at 2.30pm on Wednesday, while on Thursday afternoon (2.30), Antrim pair Jordan Brown and Robbie McGuigan are in action, the former against Oliver Lines and the latter facing Tom Ford.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/gaa\/gaelic-football\/brian-must-have-been-doing-more-than-selling-drink-when-he-was-giving-that-interview-tyrone-legends-peter-canavan-and-brian-mcguigan-differ-over-events-at-half-time-2005-all-ireland-final-SDA4BDDDCJDQ3I6TCLZS2GBNA4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"&#x2018;Brian must have been doing more than selling drink when he was giving that interview...&#x2019; Tyrone legends Peter Canavan and Brian McGuigan differ over events at half-time  2005 All-Ireland final\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/R4A5B22IRNMBPMBZWXPS23WFCE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/pub-owner-tells-of-spy-novel-mi5-recruitment-bid-WGHLFAXLL5G3ZAUJTHUGBGXAMU\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Derry pub owner tells of &#x2018;spy novel&#x2019; MI5 recruitment bid\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7FMKZJHVERGAZH37QDOEZGDG64.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Thursday morning (9.30), there\u2019s an all-Cork battle between 23-year-old Aaron Hill and 18-year-old Leone Crowley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The final stages of the tournament move to Nanjing in China on the opening weekend of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARK Allen lost his qualifying match for the International Championship in Sheffield on Wednesday, going down 6-4 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,23767,1620,10380,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-465864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-mark-allen","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-snooker","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115299169512042888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465864","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=465864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}