{"id":520605,"date":"2025-10-22T21:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:53:12","slug":"mark-allen-and-jordan-brown-pull-off-a-home-win-double-in-the-betvictor-northern-ireland-open-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520605\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Allen and Jordan Brown pull off a home-win double in the BetVictor Northern Ireland Open \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jordan Brown and Mark Allen produced a home-win double on Wednesday night at the Waterfront in Belfast to reach the last 16 of the BetVictor Northern Ireland Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brown is yet to drop a frame in the event, following up his win on Sunday against Zhao Xintong with another whitewash, this time against England\u2019s Ashley Hugill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 37-year-old opened with a break of 73 and after winning a scrappy second, added a run of 90 for 3-0. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fourth frame turned tactical after Brown established a healthy lead, and he was able to see it out to progress to a last-16 game against Shaun Murphy on Thursday evening, in what will be his first appearance in the last 16 of a ranking event for two years.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/there-was-disgust-in-the-protestant-community-uvf-murder-of-catholic-husband-and-wife-4AP2I4HTOVFZJHZZ54KH4MNWIU\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"There was &#x2018;disgust in the Protestant community&#x2019; - UVF murder of Catholic husband and wife\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TXKFGQITDVKHPHF74P2VDJURR4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/unimaginable-loss-co-armagh-community-mourns-death-of-man-found-with-head-injury-in-lisbon-E6OIVWE77ZBUFEZLAIQHK3MIT4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"James McKeown: Co Armagh community mourns death of man found with head injury in Lisbon\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3EDC7J4JBJCRNL6RDGGJVYMZN4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Allen was given a tougher test by his opponent, Ben Woollaston, who led 2-1 after losing the first frame. The topsy-turvy nature of the game continued as Allen hit the front with back-to-back centuries (100 and 135) for the second time in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A break of 80 from Woollaston forced a decider but it was Allen who prevailed, again for the second time this week, a break of 57 proving decisive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The world number eight now takes on Aaron Hill in a north v south battle on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><b>Last 32 (in draw order)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ryan Day (Wal) v Kyren Wilson (Eng) (playing Wednesday night)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He Guoqiang (Chi) bt Wu Yize (Chi) 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (Tha)bt Mark Davis (Eng) 4-1<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jack Lisowski (Eng) bt Mark Selby (Eng) 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yuan Sijun (Chi) bt Long Zehuang (Chi) 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tom Ford (Eng) bt Chris Wakelin (Eng) 4-1<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ali Carter (Eng) v Jimmy Robertson (Eng) (playing Wednesday night)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zhou Yuelong bt David Grace (Eng) 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Judd Trump (Eng) bt Jackson Page (Wal) 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gary Wilson (Eng) bt Martin O\u2019Donnell (Eng) 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Si Jiahui (Chi) bt Stephen Maguire (Sco) 4-0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Higgins (Sco) bt Pang Junxu (Chi) 4-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aaron Hill (Ire) bt Barry Hawkins (Eng) 4-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mark Allen (NI) bt Ben Woollaston (Eng) 4-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shaun Murphy (Eng) bt Elliott Slessor (Eng) 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jordan Brown (NI) bt Ashley Hugill (Eng) 4-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Brown and Mark Allen produced a home-win double on Wednesday night at the Waterfront in Belfast to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[138351,23767,1144,10380,16,15,54475],"class_list":{"0":"post-520605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-betvictor-northern-ireland-open","9":"tag-mark-allen","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-snooker","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-waterfront"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115420044842781189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520605","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=520605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}