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John Higgins and Stuart Bingham reach last 16 of Six Red World Snooker Championship with valuable wins

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Former world champions John Higgins and Stuart Bingham wasted little time in confirming their respective places in the last 16 of the Six Red World Championship in Bangkok.

2019 finalist Higgins needed to defeat local amateur Poramin Danjirakul in his final Group C match after following up a 5-2 win over Ken Doherty with a 5-1 loss to Hossein Vafaei on Monday evening at the Thammasat University Convention Centre in Pathum Thani.

Ad But the Scot had few problems in racing to a 5-0 whitewash win on Tuesday that saw him advance to the knockout stage alongside Vafaei, who topped the group on maximum points with a 5-1 victory against the eliminated Doherty.

SnookerTrump opens Six Red World Championship with whitewash win20 HOURS AGO The 2015 world champion, Stuart Bingham, completed a 5-2 win over former Welsh Open winner Jordan Brown to ensure his progress with a match to spare in Group G after a 5-1 win over Egypt's Mahmoud El Hareedy a day earlier.

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