Ding Junhui faces the World Grand Prix 2024 live. Before Mark Allen versus Jack Lisowski, Ricky Walden

Welcome to the live text coverage of the 2024 World Grand Prix presented by Eurosport from Leicester’s Morningside Arena. Ding Junhui goes up against Ricky Walden, followed by Mark Allen versus Jack Lisowski. Mark Selby takes on Ali Carter in the evening portion of the competition on Wednesday.

Judd Trump, Shaun Murphy, and Mark Williams are also competing.

WALDEN 3-0 DING (0-27)
27 points, three opportunities. Once more, Ricky moves out of position, so we have to resume playing it safe.

But take a peek at it! This game, ultimately, is about Ricky sliding a magnificent red long to the green. I’m not sure if you’ll nail the one he just nailed or miss the one he just missed. Once more, though, he is unable to turn a play out of position and play it safe into a break that is worthwhile. Ding, who isn’t very good from distance and hasn’t been good today, misses from distance, leaving one past the right corner. Two opportunities, 19 points, is a terrible result. Another opportunity for Rickaaayyyyy!
DING 3-3 WALDEN (0-8)
After our boys shake hands, our decider begins cautiously. Ricky notices it right away when it moves from one corner to the other. However, hey, riccckkkkaaaayyy! He is going to be cursing since he missed an easy black to left corner.

IN TABLE TWO
Zhang Anda 1-0 Dale Dominic
DING 3-3 WALDEN
Ding goes above and above. We’re shaking hands before the frame.
WALDEN 62-0 DING 2-3
This game merits a winner, and Ding is set to deliver, the kind man that he is. All he has left are the harder reds, though, and as I write this, a bad shot means a challenging positional shot off the pink, which he plays well, both across the table and back. We’re receiving just compensation.
WALDEN DING 2-3 (28-0)
Ding enters and breaks the pack off the blue; the balls spread out neatly because it functions so much better from above than below. However, he’ll be cautious after dropping the final frame despite making 47, and I will be too, since.

DING 2-3 WALDEN
What a meal! Ricky might have easily lost focus after frame two, but he’s demonstrated some major stones here, along with technique. But look at him now—he didn’t!
WALDEN 2-2 DING (48-46)
Ricky does a terrific job clearing the reds with this product! To steal, paint over their spots or go near to them.
WALDEN 2-2 DING (48-25)
Ding rolls one in the direction of the green, which does everything but fall, along the side rail. Ricky quickly locates one to clip into that right corner even though he doesn’t depart. Is he capable of stealing? Okay, perhaps. He makes some headway, but clearing from here will be difficult with two reds on rails and the third up in baulk.

WALDEN 2-2 DING (48-0)
Ricky crosses the right corner, but Ding subsequently undercuts the black, so nothing happens.
DING 2-2 (47-0) WALDEN
Now, three reds are on the upper rail, one is adhered to the pink, and the remaining reds are arranged in a column along the side and above the right corner. We might take a while.
DING 2-2 (47-0) WALDEN
Ding needs to play it conservatively because of his terrible positional shot, which rarely results in him losing control of the white. However, Ricky’s shoot-to-nothing puts a red ball into the jaws and out.