The 2024 English Open begins on Thursday with the early qualifying rounds of the draw first up on the Brentwood Leisure Centre.
A big change to the Residence Nations occasions this season signifies that the highest 32 gamers on this planet rankings will probably be seeded by to the final 64.
Which means the likes of Judd Trump, Ronnie O’Sullivan, and Kyren Wilson might want to win one much less match than in earlier years to seize the Steve Davis Trophy.
The remaining 32 spots within the final 64 will probably be decided by two preliminary rounds, with the underside 64 seeds getting into in spherical one and people ranked from 33 to 64 getting into in spherical two.
The prize fund might not examine a lot with the latest Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, however it has elevated considerably from final yr with the champion now pocketing £100,000.
The English Open can also be the primary occasion on the Residence Nations sequence, the place the best earner on the finish of the 4 counting occasions will land a £150,000 bonus.
2024 English Open prize cash
Champion: £100,000
Runner-up: £45,000
Semi-Closing: £21,000
Quarter-Closing: £13,200
Final 16: £9,000
Final 32: £5,400
Final 64: £3,600
Final 96: £1,000
Highest Break: £5,000
TOTAL: £550,400
Who’re the previous English Open champions?
Judd Trump gained the title in 2023, the primary of 5 throughout a prolific final marketing campaign that helped spearhead his return to the highest of the world rankings checklist.
It was the second time that Trump had emerged with the English Open crown having first etched his title onto the trophy in 2020.
Mark Selby can also be a two-time former champion, the Leicester man profitable in 2019 and once more in 2022 – the primary yr the occasion occurred in Brentwood.
Disgraced former skilled Liang Wenbo was the inaugural champion again in 2016 and is the one former English Open winner not within the 2024 draw.
Ronnie O’Sullivan, Stuart Bingham, and Neil Robertson emerged victoriously in 2017, 2018, and 2021 respectively.
2024 English Open draw
Spherical of 128 (bo7)
Matches to be performed on Thursday, September twelfth and Friday, September thirteenth
Ashley Carty vs Anton Kazakov
Reanne Evans vs Mink Nutcharut
Liam Pullen vs Antoni Kowalski
Rory Thor vs Oliver Traces
Ben Mertens vs Chris Totten
Ian Burns vs Haydon Pinhey
Zak Surety vs Farakh Ajaib
Alfie Burden vs Dylan Emery
Ma Hailong vs Lei Peifan
Artemijs Zizins vs Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Andrew Pagett vs Kreishh Gurbaxani
Dean Younger vs Bai Yulu
Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Simon Blackwell
Bulcsú Révész vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Stuart Carrington vs Wang Yuchen
Lengthy Zehuang vs Lim Kok Leong
Amir Sarkhosh vs Liam Davies
Andrew Higginson vs Mark Joyce
Gong Chenzhi vs Michael Holt
Jimmy White vs Joshua Cooper
Xing Zihao vs Paul Deaville
Julien Leclercq vs Oliver Sykes
Louis Heathcote vs Iulian Boiko
Hammad Miah vs Huang Jiahao
Mostafa Dorgham vs Allan Taylor
Ross Muir w/o Jonas Luz
Liam Graham vs Joshua Thomand
Stan Moody vs Cheung Ka Wai
Alexander Ursenbacher vs Mohammed Shehab
Robbie McGuigan vs Mitchell Mann
Marco Fu vs Haris Tahir
Spherical of 96 (bo7)
Matches to be performed on Friday, September thirteenth and Saturday, September 14th
Liu Hongyu vs Carty/Kazakov
Ricky Walden vs Evans/Nutcharut
Fan Zhengyi vs Pullen/Kowalski
Scott Donaldson vs Thor/O. Traces
Wu Yize vs Mertens/Totten
Martin O’Donnell vs Burns/Pinhey
Elliot Slessor vs Surety/Ajaib
Ben Woollaston vs Burden/Emery
Aaron Hill vs Ma/Lei
Robbie Williams vs Zizins/D. Jones
Tian Pengfei vs Jiang/Aly
Jordan Brown vs Pagett/Gurbaxani
Matthew Stevens vs Younger/Bai
Graeme Dott vs Chadha/Blackwell
Yuan Sijun vs Révész/Phetmalaikul
He Guoqiang vs Carrington/Wang
Sanderson Lam vs Lengthy/Lim
Dominic Dale vs Sarkhosh/Davies
Daniel Wells vs Higginson/Joyce
Sam Craigie vs Gong/Holt
Joe Perry vs White/Cooper
Mark Davis vs Xing/Deaville
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Leclercq/Sykes
Anthony Hamilton vs Heathcote/Boiko
Jamie Clarke vs Miah/Huang
Jackson Web page vs Dorgham/Taylor
David Lilley vs Ross Muir
Jamie Jones vs Graham/Thomond
Xu Si vs Moody/Cheung
Jimmy Robertson vs Ursenbacher/Shehab
Xiao Guodong vs McGuigan/Mann
David Grace vs Fu/Tahir
Spherical of 64 (bo7)
Matches to be performed on Monday, September sixteenth and Tuesday, September seventeenth
Judd Trump vs TBC
Matthew Selt vs TBC
Ryan Day vs TBC
Robert Milkins vs TBC
Stuart Bingham vs TBC
Ali Carter vs TBC
Noppon Saengkham vs TBC
Mark Williams vs TBC
Mark Selby vs TBC
Joe O’Connor vs TBC
Tom Ford vs TBC
Si Jiahui vs TBC
Hossein Vafaei vs TBC
Jak Jones vs TBC
Stephen Maguire vs TBC
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs TBC
Mark Allen vs TBC
Lyu Haotian vs TBC
John Higgins vs TBC
David Gilbert vs TBC
Chris Wakelin vs TBC
Zhang Anda vs TBC
Pang Junxu vs TBC
Luca Brecel vs TBC
Shaun Murphy vs TBC
Neil Robertson vs TBC
Gary Wilson vs TBC
Zhou Yuelong vs TBC
Jack Lisowski vs TBC
Barry Hawkins vs TBC
Anthony McGill vs TBC
Kyren Wilson vs TBC
Spherical of 32 (bo7)
Matches to be performed on Wednesday, September 18th
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Spherical of 16 (bo7)
Matches to be performed on Thursday, September nineteenth
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Quarter-Finals (bo9)
Matches to be performed on Friday, September twentieth
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Semi-Finals (bo11)
Matches to be performed on Saturday, September twenty first
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Closing (bo17)
Match to be performed on Sunday, September twenty second
TBC vs TBC
Who’re the betting favourites?
Like with most occasions, Ronnie O’Sullivan is the pre-tournament on-line betting favorite to win the English Open with odds of about 3/1.
However Judd Trump is essentially the most in-form participant on the circuit at current and boasts odds of round 7/2 to efficiently defend his crown.
World champion Kyren Wilson is priced at 11/1, with related betting odds being supplied for Mark Selby, Mark Allen, and Neil Robertson.
How can I watch the 2024 English Open?
There are a number of choices out there to observe the English Open this yr, together with Eurosport and discovery+ for viewers throughout Europe.
The total checklist of world broadcasters:
Europe (together with UK and Eire)
Eurosport, discovery+, and DMAX
China
Huya.com
CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel
CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong
Now TV
Malaysia and Brunei
Astro
Philippines
Faucet
Taiwan
Sportcast
Thailand
True Sport
All different territories
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