Ashley Carty has no qualms with UK Snooker Championship defeat

The Rotherham potter went down 6-3 to the Tamworth-based player at York’s Barbican, four years after suffering a much heavier defeat to Barry Hawkins in his only previous appearance in the tournament.

Ashley said: "I didn't do much wrong but David was outstanding.

"I broke off and put the white tight on the top cushion and thought that was a pretty good start but he put this long red in out of nowhere and made 128. I knew that point I needed to play well."

After losing that opening frame, Carty took the second with breaks of 54 and 50.

Gilbert regained the advantage in the third frame but a 100 clearance gave Ashley the fourth, levelling the scores at 2-2.

The players shared the next two frames, Carty the second of them with a break of 87, but it was the higher ranked man who had the staying power.

A clearance of 122 won him the seventh frame to take him 4-3 clear and although the following one was close, Gilbert won it with an 85 break and then took the ninth to complete victory.