 Complete the following phrase:  After failing to qualify for the Australian Goldfields Open and exiting both the Shanghai Masters and International Championship in the first round, Brecel then beat Hossein Vafaei 61, Anthony McGill 64 and Robin Hull 62 to reach the fourth round of the UK Championship.ref name201516ref He subsequently lost to Matthew Selt 64 after being 31 up in the interval. After beating Zhao Xintong 52 and Kurt Maflin 53 he reached his first quarter-final of the season soon afterwards at the German Masters, where he recovered from 42 down to defeat Mark Joyce 54, closing the match with a 102 break. Brecel then won a scrappy game 63 in the semi-finals against Kyren Wilson to become only the second European player from outside the UK and Ireland, after Tony Drago from Malta almost 20 years ago when he was defeated by Stephen Hendry at the same stage of the 1997 International Open, to play in a ranking event final and the first one from Belgium. He would lose it 95 to Martin Gould, but targeted a top 20 world ranking before the end of the season. He lost in the final of the Snooker Shoot-Out to Robin Hull. Brecel was beaten in the fourth round of the Welsh Open 42 by Ding Junhui and, after losing in the first round of three successive ranking events and failing to qualify for the 