The Masters completed on Sunday night time and the World Snooker Tour rolls straight on this week, with the World Grand Prix getting underway on Monday in Leicester.
Ronnie O’Sullivan beat Ali Carter at Alexandra Palace to assert the title on Sunday and each males can be concerned within the 32-player discipline this week.
The highest 32 on the one-year checklist this season are taking part in in Leicester, and with the draw made on that rating checklist, it has thrown collectively some blockbuster first spherical ties.
John Higgins vs Shaun Murphy and defending champion Mark Allen vs Jack Lisowski catch the attention and look very troublesome to name over a best-of-seven.
The primary two rounds are performed over the brief best-of-seven format, the quarter-finals prolong to best-of-nine, semis best-of-11 and the ultimate a best-of-19 contest.
Allen beat Judd Trump 10-9 in an epic contest final season and each males are available in as main contenders to get their palms on the trophy once more this 12 months.
World Grand Prix draw and schedule
Monday 15 January
7pm
Judd Trump vs Jamie Jones
Lyu Haotian vs Chris Wakelin
8pm
Mark Selby vs Yuan Sijun
Hossein Vafaei vs Matt Selt
Tuesday 16 January
1pm
John Higgins vs Shaun Murphy
Zhou Yuelong vs Stephen Maguire
3pm
Ali Carter vs Wu Yize
Gary Wilson vs David Gilbert
7pm
Mark Williams vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Tom Ford vs Jordan Brown
8pm
Barry Hawkins vs Cao Yupeng
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Pang Junxu
Wednesday 17 January
1pm
Noppon Saengkham vs Xiao Guodong
Ding Junhui vs Ricky Walden
3pm
Zhang Anda vs Dominic Dale
Mark Allen vs Jack Lisowski
Tips on how to watch the World Grand Prix
The match is proven by ITV within the UK, largely on ITV4 however examine the schedule.
World Grand Prix prize cash
Winner: £100,000
Runner-up: £40,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £12,500
Final 16: £7,500
Final 32: £5,000
Highest break: £10,000
World Grand Prix odds
Ronnie O’Sullivan 7/2
Judd Trump 4/1
Mark Selby 8/1
Mark Allen 12/1
Ding Junhui 16/1
Mark Williams 16/1
Shaun Murphy 16/1
John Higgins 16/1
Barry Hawkins 18/1
Allister Carter 22/1
Jack Lisowski 22/1
Zhang Anda 22/1
Tom Ford 28/1
Zhou Yuelong 28/1
David Gilbert 33/1
Hossein Vafaei 33/1
Stephen Maguire 40/1
Noppon Saengkham 40/1
Gary Wilson 40/1
Ricky Walden 66/1
Xiao Guodong 66/1
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 66/1
Lyu Haotian 66/1
Yuan Sijun 80/1
Pang Junxu 80/1
Matthew Selt 80/1
Chris Wakelin 80/1
Jordan Brown 125/1
Cao Yupeng 150/1
Wu Yize 150/1
Jamie Jones 250/1
Dominic Dale 250/1
Odds courtesy of Betfair
Earlier winners
2023 – Mark Allen
2021 – Ronnie O’Sullivan
2020 (Dec) – Judd Trump
2020 (Feb) – Neil Robertson
2019 – Judd Trump
2018 – Ronnie O’Sullivan
2017 – Barry Hawkins
2016 – Shaun Murphy
2015 – Judd Trump (non-ranking)
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