On November 1, the fourth ranking tournament of the World Snooker Tour this season, the England Open, was fully launched, and on the first day of the competition, the world's top 16 seeded players held a postponement of the qualifying round, and Chinese twin stars Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao joined hands, and finally both won 4-1 against their opponents and successfully advanced to the round of 64. But Maguire, Allen, Lisowski and other 3 seeds regrettably stopped and broke out of the cold. In addition, the two women's world champions Evans and China's Hong Kong star Wu Anyi, who competed in the professional season, both lost 1-4 and both were out.
Ding Junhui, a Chinese brother who had been absent from the new season for a long time, returned to the UK at the end of October to start the journey of the new season. But in the first round of the german masters qualifiers, he lost 4-5 to veteran Mark Davis, unfortunately missing the regular match. This game became his second game of the new season and a key battle for his first win. Against The Wales player Padget, who is only ranked 101st in the world, Ding Junhui did not play well after the opening, and even made a lot of low-level mistakes, and the first two sets were only tied at 1-1. After that, Ding Junhui gradually adjusted, playing a single 50+ level in succession, and finally achieved a 4-1 victory. Despite the victory, Ding Junhui was still controversial, after all, the game process was too ugly, and after the game, he himself said that there was a lack of confrontation and would be strengthened in subsequent training.
Yan Bingtao played against Irish youngster Aaron Hill, and in the end he performed steadily, also winning 4-1 and advancing to the main tournament. In all the seeded qualifiers, the main players won, including Trump, O'Sullivan, Robertson, Selby, Higgins, Karen Wilson, Murphy and others. But Maguire, Allen and Lisowski suffered defeats, of which Maguire, ranked 8th in the world, was the most unfortunate, and he fought fiercely to the decider in the showdown with Mark King, regrettably losing. As the new champion of the Northern Ireland Open, Allen did really badly in the second home series, facing Belgian star Brechel, he only won one game, and even in the other 4 games, he only scored a pitiful 2 innings. Lissovsky lost 3-4 to Mark Joyce.
In the first round of qualifying, two women's World Championship winners, England's Renee Evans and Hong Kong's sister Wu Anyi, played against Hawkins and Bingham respectively. Evans did not perform too brilliantly in front of the powerful Hawkins, failing to shoot a single shot of 50+, but Hawkins hit a super break in the second inning, scoring 146 points in a single shot, becoming the 18th man on the official record. In the end, Hawkins won 4-1. In the duel between Wu Anyi and Bingham, the performance was acceptable, and after winning the first set, he lost three consecutive sets, and Bingham played three consecutive 80+ to win. In the fifth set, Wu Anyi scored a single 53 points, while Bingham passed a two-shot snooker defense, successfully chased the score, and finally completed the counterattack with a 3-point advantage, also winning 4-1.