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The former ranking event winner arrived on Boxing Day expecting an early exit at the hands of current World Snooker Tour (WST) number 18 Stuart Bingham but delighted the crowds in Derby to lift his maiden title on the World Seniors Snooker (WSS) Tour.

British Open snooker returned to Derby for the first time since 1993 as a strong eight-player field embarked on the Vaillant Live venue for three days of action.

Perry kicked off the opening day against 2015 world champion Bingham, who was making his debut on the WSS Tour and arrived as the tournament favourite with title sponsors JenningsBet.

It was the man known as ‘The Gentleman’ who dominated, however, as a top break of 61 helped Perry to a whitewash win to reach the semi-finals.

There he faced former UK and Masters champion Matthew Stevens, who had won through a dramatic black ball shoot out on Friday evening to defeat Anthony Hamilton 4-3 in the quarter-finals.

In a contest that saw some remarkable displays of break-building, a total of seven contributions over 50 were compiled as Perry ran out a 5-3 victor with the tournament high break of 131 in the sixth frame.

The ever-popular White set up a title match meeting with Perry by coming from 2-0 behind to beat reigning World Seniors champion and recently-crowned Shoot Out winner Alfie Burden 5-3 in the last four.

‘The Whirlwind’, who had earlier overcome 1997 world champion Ken Doherty 4-2 on the opening day, was welcomed into the arena on Sunday afternoon to a rapturous ovation from the Derby crowd – but it was Perry who comfortably took the opening frame of the best-of-13 contest.

The final was a tense and evenly matched affair as the first six frames were shared between the two players – White pulling out a stunning clearance from brown to black in the sixth to hit back after Perry had scored a break of 100 in the previous frame.

There remained nothing between the two fierce competitors, with neither player being more than a frame ahead at any point when the score was once again levelled at 5-5 in the race to seven.

A pair of half-century breaks then saw Perry pull away to secure the first WSS Tour title of his career.

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The event will be shown live on Channel 5 in the UK with former world champions Ken Doherty and Stuart Bingham joined by four-time World Seniors champion Jimmy White, newly-crowned Shoot Out winner Alfie Burden and former UK and Masters victor Matthew Stevens.

Ranking event winners Joe Perry, Dominic Dale and Anthony Hamilton complete the eight-player line-up in Derby.

The Draw

• Quarter-Finals (Friday 26 December)
  • Alfie Burden (1) vs. Dominic Dale
  • Ken Doherty (4) vs. Jimmy White
  • Matthew Stevens (3) vs. Anthony Hamilton
  • Stuart Bingham (2) vs. Joe Perry
• Semi-Finals (Saturday 27 December)
  • Burden/Dale vs. Doherty/White
  • Stevens/Hamilton vs. Bingham/Perry
• Final (Sunday 28 December)
  • Winner of SF1 vs. Winner of SF2

The afternoon session begins at 13:00 on Boxing Day with 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham making his debut on the World Seniors Snooker Tour.

The 49-year-old, who also won the Masters in 2020, is the JenningsBet tournament favourite and will begin his campaign against ‘The Gentleman’ Joe Perry on Friday afternoon.

Jimmy White and Ken Doherty will conclude the afternoon session as two of the sport’s most popular stars go head-to-head at the Vaillant Live.

The quarter-final match is a repeat of the 2020 World Seniors Snooker Championship final, where ‘The Whirlwind’ came back from a 4-0 deficit to win 5-4 in an epic Crucible contest.

Anthony Hamilton and Matthew Stevens get the evening session underway in Derby as ‘The Sheriff of Pottingham’, a former German Masters champion, takes on the two-time World Championship runner-up on his World Seniors Snooker Tour debut.

The concluding match of the opening round features reigning World Seniors champion Alfie Burden, who won the first ranking event title of his career last month as a late entry at the Shoot Out. He will face ‘The Spaceman’ Dominic Dale – a former winner of the Grand Prix and Shanghai Masters.

Format

The format for the event is as follows:

• Quarter-Finals: Best of 7 Frames
• Semi-Finals: Best of 9 Frames
• Final: Best of 13 Frames

In an exciting and unique twist, should any match in the event go the distance then the deciding frame will be replaced by a respotted black.

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