Overview
- Schindler won only two of 14 legs as Searle advanced in a one-sided match at London’s Alexandra Palace.
- Checkout accuracy proved decisive, with Searle finishing at about 48% on doubles compared with Schindler’s roughly 13%.
- The defeat denied Schindler a first appearance in the last 16 after earlier wins over Stephen Burton and Keane Barry.
- Schindler, ranked around No. 13, acknowledged on DAZN that he "deserved" the loss and said Searle punished every mistake.
- German hopes narrowed further after Ricardo Pietreczko’s third-round exit the previous evening.