Stan Moody won a battle of the teenagers against Iulian Boiko by a 4-2 scoreline as the BetVictor Scottish Open qualifying rounds got underway in Sheffield.
The qualifiers run until Wednesday this week, with winners going through to the final stages in Edinburgh in December.
Moody, age 18, enjoyed a run to the last 16 of the BetVictor Northern Ireland Open in Belfast last week and kept his momentum going with an impressive win over 19-year-old Boiko, compiling breaks of 60 and 63.
Louis Heathcote was a quarter-finalist in Belfast and he beat Joshua Thomond 4-0 with top breaks of 79, 69 and 65. Scotland's Dean Young took a step towards qualifying for his home tournament as he saw off Daniel Womersley 4-2, but there were defeats for Chris Totten, Jack Borwick and Liam Graham.
Andrew Pagett recovered a 3-0 deficit to beat Dylan Emery 4-3, and Egypt's Mostafa Dorgham enjoyed an equally good fight-back as he won each of the last four frames on the colours to beat Liam Pullen 4-3. Michael Holt came from 3-0 down to 3-3 only for his opponent Alexander Ursenbacher to win the decider.