World Snooker Championship: Joe Perry felt 'physically sick' for Mark Davis after beating friend to reach Crucible

Perry's triumph earns him a archetypal travel to the World Snooker Championship last stages since 2019

Joe Perry said helium felt "physically sick" for Mark Davis aft securing a melodramatic 10-9 triumph implicit his bully person successful the last qualifying circular for the World Snooker Championship.

"It was a horrible feeling due to the fact that he's 1 of my champion friends," Perry said.

"I should beryllium perfectly delighted and implicit the moon, but it's weird."

Davis, 50, volition present necessitate a travel to Q School if helium wishes to regain his nonrecreational status.

"I don't cognize what to feel. Mark was clearing up and we each cognize what was astatine involvement for him," added Perry, a 2008 semi-finalist.

"I'm chuffed to bits to spell to the Crucible, but the mode it's happened I conscionable consciousness truthful sick for him."

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Elsewhere, two-time finalist Matthew Stevens is retired aft a 10-7 decision to 2019 semi-finalist David Gilbert, portion erstwhile European Masters victor Jimmy Robertson earned a spot astatine the Crucible for the archetypal clip since 2018 aft beating Anthony Hamilton 10-2.

Hossein Vafaei, who became the archetypal Iranian to vie astatine the Crucible past year, sealed a instrumentality with a 10-6 triumph implicit Welshman Jackson Page.

China's Pang Junxu secured a Crucible debut aft beating compatriot Xu Si 10-5, portion David Grace bushed amateur Andrew Higginson 10-5 and Elliot Slessor won 10-5 against Zhou Yuelong.

Ryan Day progressed erstwhile his hostile Scott Donaldson was forced to retreat arsenic helium was suffering from a limb tremor that meant helium could not compete, handing the Welshman a 10-0 win.

This year's World Championship takes spot from 15 April-1 May astatine the Crucible successful Sheffield.

The gully volition instrumentality spot unrecorded connected 5 Live Breakfast astatine 8.35am connected Thursday 13 April.

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