The venue levels of the 2024 Northern Eire Open draw start on Sunday on the Waterfront Corridor in Belfast.
World primary Judd Trump returns because the defending champion with Ronnie O’Sullivan, Kyren Wilson, and Mark Allen additionally anticipated to function.
It’s the seventh rating occasion of the 2024/25 snooker season and the second on the Residence Nations collection of tournaments.
There was already a preliminary part staged a month in the past in Sheffield to whittle down the lower-ranked contenders, however the prime 32 seeds all enter the fray from Sunday.
The ultimate takes place on October twenty seventh when the winner might be topped with the Alex Higgins Trophy.
2024 Northern Eire Open prize cash
Champion: £100,000
Runner-up: £45,000
Semi-Last: £21,000
Quarter-Last: £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 champions?
Three out of the 4 earlier winners of the occasion are within the 2024 Northern Eire Open draw.
Mark King was the inaugural champion again in 2016, however the Englishman hasn’t competed on the World Snooker Tour since being suspended greater than a 12 months in the past.
Mark Williams subsequently emerged with the title in 2017 earlier than a three-year stretch of 9-7 wins for Judd Trump over Ronnie O’Sullivan in finals.
Past that, Mark Allen delighted his residence crowd by twice successful the match earlier than Trump gained for a file fourth time a 12 months in the past.
An anomaly of the occasion’s historical past is that solely left-handed gamers have ever lifted the trophy aloft on the finish of the week’s motion.
Who’re the favourites within the 2024 Northern Eire Open draw?
Judd Trump is taken into account the betting favorite with lots of on-line bookies providing odds of about 3/1 on the reigning champion’s possibilities of a repeat glory.
Trump has already gained two titles this season, together with the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, and he has been a relentless presence on the enterprise finish of occasions typically.
The 35 year-old will start his defence towards Ishpreet Singh Chadha, who reached the semi-finals of the final Residence Nations occasion in Brentwood.
Ronnie O’Sullivan, who skipped final week’s Wuhan Open in China, is about to face Lengthy Zehuang within the spherical of 64 and is priced at 5/1.
Mark Selby (6/1), Neil Robertson (8/1), and Kyren Wilson (8/1) are the subsequent gamers who’re fancied by the bookies to problem.
Residence hero Mark Allen has odds of round 10/1 with the Antrim man, who additionally withdrew from Wuhan on account of private causes, first up towards Liu Hongyu.
Shock Wuhan Open winner Xiao Guodong is priced at 33/1 to finish an unlikely back-to-back rating occasion double.
2024 Northern Eire Open draw
Spherical of 64 (bo7)
Judd Trump vs Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Lyu Haotian vs Matthew Selt
John Higgins vs Fan Zhengyi
Barry Hawkins vs Matthew Stevens
Stuart Bingham vs Scott Donaldson
Gary Wilson vs Mark Davis
Zhou Yuelong vs Dominic Dale
Shaun Murphy vs Jiang Jun
Mark Selby vs Louis Heathcote
Xiao Guodong vs Jimmy Robertson
Si Jiahui vs Tian Pengfei
Robert Milkins vs Jordan Brown
David Gilbert vs Lei Peifan
Tom Ford vs Rory Thor
Joe O’Connor vs Elliot Slessor
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Lengthy Zehuang
Mark Allen vs Liu Hongyu
Wu Yize vs R. Walden/O. Traces/J. Cooper
Neil Robertson vs Graeme Dott
Jack Lisowski vs Wang Yuchen
Hossein Vafaei vs Jimmy White
Zhang Anda vs Martin O’Donnell
Pang Junxu vs Yuan Sijun
Luca Brecel vs He Guoqiang
Mark Williams vs Jamie Clarke
Noppon Saengkham vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ali Carter vs Ma Hailong
Chris Wakelin vs Revesz Bulcsu
Ryan Day vs Stan Moody
Jak Jones vs Alexander Ursenbacher
Stephen Maguire vs Anthony McGill
Kyren Wilson vs David Grace
Click on right here to view the complete Northern Eire Open draw
(snooker.org)
How can I watch the match?
There are a number of choices obtainable to observe the Northern Eire Open this 12 months, together with Eurosport and discovery+ for viewers throughout Europe.
The total record 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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