The British Open qualifiers happen subsequent week with snooker returning to the Morningside Area in Leicester from Monday.
There shall be six days of preliminary-round motion as gamers on the primary tour try to achieve the venue levels of the season’s third rating event.
This 12 months’s version shall be staged at The Centaur in Cheltenham for the primary time in the direction of the top of September.
The highest seeds all have their opening fixtures held over to the primary levels of the competitors subsequent month.
That features defending champion Ryan Day, world champion Luca Brecel, and world primary Ronnie O’Sullivan.
The likes of Mark Selby, Mark Allen, Judd Trump, Neil Robertson, John Higgins, and Mark Williams will play their first matches on the venue itself as properly.
Shaun Murphy, who has received three rating titles in 2023 thus far together with the season-opening Championship League, can even have his match deferred.
Many of the remaining rivals on the professional snooker circuit should negotiate their British Open qualifiers underneath a cubicle setting.
The British Open is one among solely a few tournaments on the calendar that utilises a random draw format all through.
Matches within the qualifiers would be the better of seven frames, which often leads to some upsets so getting off to a fast begin might show pivotal.
Amongst these set to take part in Leicester are 2023 World Championship semi-finalist Si Jiahui, Hossein Vafaei, Stuart Bingham, and Jimmy White.
The latter, who received the World Seniors Championship in Might, faces Stephen Maguire in a repeat of their European Open ultimate showdown from 19 years in the past.
British Open qualifiers schedule
Monday, August 14th
10am
Lukas Kleckers vs Si Jiahui
Ma Hailong vs Ian Burns
1pm
Manasawin Phetmalaikul vs Ishpreet Singh
Stephen Hendry vs Muhammad Asif
4pm
James Cahill vs Tom Ford
Louis Heathcote vs Ben Mertens
7pm
Alfie Burden vs Ken Doherty
Fergal O’Brien vs Andres Petrov
Tuesday, August fifteenth
10am
Hammad Miah vs Zhou Yuelong
Robbie Williams vs Pang Junxu
1pm
Oliver Brown vs Himanshu Jain
Xu Si vs Ricky Walden
4pm
Dominic Dale vs Mark Joyce
Liam Pullen vs Oliver Strains
7pm
Jenson Kendrick vs David Grace
Adam Duffy vs Scott Donaldson
Wednesday, August sixteenth
10am
Graeme Dott vs Zhang Anda
Baipat Siripaporn vs Liu Hongyu
1pm
Asjad Iqbal vs Tian Pengfei
Dylan Emery vs Yuan Sijun
4pm
Andrew Higginson vs Andy Hicks
Chris Wakelin vs Andrew Pagett
7pm
Rod Lawler vs Sam Craigie
Anthony Hamilton vs Aaron Hill
Thursday, August seventeenth
10am
Mohamed Ibrahim vs Mink Nutcharut
Liam Graham vs Cao Yupeng
1pm
Elliot Slessor vs He Guoqiang
Andy Lee vs Hossein Vafaei
4pm
David Gilbert vs Ryan Thomerson
Jackson Web page vs Ashley Carty
7pm
Stuart Carrington vs Ross Muir
Ashley Hugill vs Jak Jones
Friday, August 18th
10am
David Lilley vs Lyu Haotian
Thor Chuan Leong vs Alexander Ursenbacher
1pm
Wu Yize vs Martin Gould
Noppon Saengkham vs Xing Zihao
4pm
Victor Sarkis vs Matthew Stevens
Jordan Brown vs Daniel Wells
7pm
Joe Perry vs Sanderson Lam
Michael White vs Zak Surety
Saturday, August nineteenth
10am
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Reanne Evans
Mark Davis vs Fan Zhengyi
1pm
Xiao Guodong vs Marco Fu
Jamie Jones vs Mostafa Dorgham
4pm
Stuart Bingham vs John Astley
Matthew Selt vs Liam Highfield
7pm
Julien Leclercq vs Dean Younger
Stephen Maguire vs Jimmy White
Held over fixtures
(to be performed in Cheltenham)
Monday, September twenty fifth
Ryan Day vs Sean O’Sullivan
Luca Brecel vs Ding Junhui
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Jimmy Robertson
Mark Allen vs Anthony McGill
Judd Trump vs Anton Kazakov
Mark Selby vs Ben Woollaston
Neil Robertson vs Jamie Clarke
Shaun Murphy vs Rebecca Kenna
Kyren Wilson vs Martin O’Donnell
Mark Williams vs Peng Yisong
John Higgins vs Lengthy Zehuang
Ali Carter vs Allan Taylor
Robert Milkins vs Jiang Jun
Jack Lisowski vs Joe O’Connor
Gary Wilson vs Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Barry Hawkins vs Stan Moody
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