Jimmy White: Snooker legend fails in bid to look at Crucible after World Championship qualifying defeat

Jimmy White’s wait for an additional look on the Crucible Theatre will stretch to 20 years after he was overwhelmed in World Championship qualifying.

The 62-year-old misplaced 10-5 to Ashley Carty within the second spherical of the qualifying event held on the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.

White, now ranked 93 on this planet, has not appeared on the Crucible since a first-round defeat again in 2006 and has misplaced in qualifying yearly since.

He famously reached the ultimate of the event six instances between 1984 and 1994 throughout his prime however misplaced each time.

White had began his forty fifth World Championship marketing campaign with an exciting late-night victory over Ukraine’s Anton Kazakov earlier within the week.

On that event ‘the Whirlwind’ rolled again the years to win six frames on the bounce to seal victory, however there was to be no repeat towards Carty.

Rotherham’s Carty raced right into a 5-1 lead and though White took the subsequent two frames – together with a break of 107 – he couldn’t swing the momentum his manner within the night session.

Breaks of 62 and 63 within the 14th and fifteenth body had been ample for Carty, 29, to shut out the match.

The World Championship begins on 19 April.