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| | Guardian Unlimited Sport | Snooker | Hunter makes an emotional but losing return |
 | | Without being able to engage his higher gears, Hunter led 3-1 before McLeod, tentative in the early stages, asserted himself with a winning 68 in the fifth.This appeared to give him an authentic belief that he could win and, as Hunter continued to labour, he levelled at 3-3 with a late 38. |
 | | McLeod, the only player of Afro-Caribbean extraction on the circuit, was clearing up in his characteristic studious style in the seventh until the significance of the last fl, rather than its intrinsic difficulty, cost him a 4-3 lead. |
 | | Stephen Lee, ranked 10th, was whitewashed 5-0 by Northern Ireland's Gerard Greene; Graeme Dott ranked 13th, fell 5-2 to Stuart Pettman, one of Preston's own local heroes; and Joe Perry, ranked 14th, fell 5-3 to Jamie Cope, a fine young prospect from Stoke. |
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