After a disastrous first Challenge Tour, Mike Hallett kept his attempt to regain his Main Tour place on track yesterday.

Hallett fought back from 3-1 down to beat Northern Ireland international captain Dermot McGlinchey 4-3 at the Challenge Tour event 2 at the Jesters' club.

Hallett finished strongly, restricting his opponent to only nine points in the last two frames.

Meanwhile, three seeds lost their only match, Karl Broughton going down 4-2 to Dylan Leary and Jason Weston 4-1 to Margate's Richard Jones, who also started started brilliantly by beating Oliver King 4-2 with breaks of 54, 59 and 123.

Wayne Jones received a walkover against one of the tour's favourites, Paul Sweeney when the latter took over six hours to complete a journey from South London, due to an accident on the M4.

SNOOKER: Karl Burrows subdued talented Thai Suppachai Wiwattrang 4-2, Stefan Mazrocis ended the run of ladies number one Kelly Fisher with a 4-0 success, including breaks of 62 and 70.

Darryn Walker came back from 2-0 down to beat Martin Gould 4-2 and finally Craig MacGillivray defeated a worn out Sean Lynskey 4-2.

Lysnskey had taken seven hours too win his first two matches, having the energy to make breaks of 64 and 75 in his last match.