Northern Ireland Open: Mark Allen loses to Jordan Brown on return to motion

Mark Allen’s return to motion led to defeat as he grew to become the most recent huge identify to exit the Northern Ireland Open, shedding to Jordan Brown on the Waterfront Hall.

Allen, who had not performed since his agonising World Championship semi-final loss to Wu Yize in early May, misplaced 4-2 to Brown within the all-Northern Ireland first-round contest in Belfast.

Former globe primary Allen turns into the tenth top-16 participant to fall on the first hurdle this 12 months, with Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd Trump and Mark Selby among the many early casualties.

Allen, 40, took the opening body on Tuesday afternoon however 39-year-old Brown hit again by taking the following two.

While Allen levelled the match at 2-2, Brown constructed breaks of 53 and 80 within the closing two frames to progress.

In Tuesday’s different early video games, three-time globe champion Mark Williams progressed with a 4-2 win over Robbie Williams, whereas Michael Holt knocked out Yuelong Zhou with a 4-1 victory.

Brown will now purpose to advance additional than final 12 months when he reached the quarter-finals and misplaced 5-2 to Allen within the final eight.

Defending champion Jack Lisowski is in motion towards Anthony McGill throughout Tuesday’s night session (21:00 BST).