Jimmy White will face Martin Gould within the first spherical of the World Snooker Championship qualifiers with the anticipated attract 2024 introduced.
The Whirlwind, six occasions a runner-up within the sport’s blue-riband event, hasn’t made an look on the Crucible Theatre since 2006.
White enters the preliminary event on the English Institute of Sport on the first hurdle.
Which means 4 victories will likely be required if the 61 year-old is to thrill his legion of supporters and attain the venue levels once more.
For Gould, the Pinner Potter has had a tricky season by which he has pulled out of lots of occasions, that means the previous German Masters champion’s tour survival is in jeopardy.
Elsewhere, newly topped girls’s world champion Bai Yulu faces Jenson Kendrick and three-time rating occasion winner Marco Fu entertains Baipat Siripaporn.
In what guarantees to be his final World Championship earlier than retirement, affable Irishman Fergal O’Brien’s preliminary tie is in opposition to Mostafa Dorgham.
O’Brien’s fellow Dubliner, 1997 world champion Ken Doherty, enters within the second qualifying spherical and will face Hong Kong’s Fu.
Lots of the heavier hitters will be a part of the fray within the third qualifying spherical, together with the likes of Neil Robertson and Stuart Bingham.
Ryan Day, Hossein Vafaei, and Noppon Saengkham are different huge names concerned within the World Snooker Championship qualifiers draw.
What’s the format?
As in earlier years, a tiered construction is in operation for the qualifiers with the primary spherical happening between the gamers seeded from 81-112 in opposition to these seeded from 113-144.
Plenty of amateurs have been invited as top-ups – most via invites from the WPBSA for achievements within the final yr.
The gamers seeded from 49 to 80 – primarily based on the world rankings record – will enter the fray and tackle the winners from spherical one in spherical two.
These ranked from 17-48 will lastly be a part of the motion in spherical three, with two victories then required to seal one of many 16 coveted spots on the venue levels.
Each spherical will likely be contested over two classes and 19 frames.
The qualifiers happen from April 8-17 on the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
World Snooker Championship qualifiers draw
Qualifier 1
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 1 | Martin Gould vs Jimmy White |
Winner vs Liu Hongyu |
Winner vs Jack Lisowski |
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| Winner route 1 vs Winner route 2 |
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| 2 | Ryan Thomerson vs Liam Davies |
Winner vs Jimmy Robertson |
Winner vs Matthew Stevens |
Qualifier 2
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 3 | Ian Burns vs Dean Younger |
Winner vs Mark Joyce |
Winner vs Ricky Walden |
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| Winner route 3 vs Winner route 4 |
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| 4 | Andy Lee vs Andrew Pagett |
Winner vs Mark Davis |
Winner vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh |
Qualifier 3
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 5 | Rory Thor vs Hamza Ilyas |
Winner vs David Grace |
Winner vs Dominic Dale |
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| Winner route 5 vs Winner route 6 |
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| 6 | Ross Muir vs Cheung Ka Wai |
Winner vs He Guoqiang |
Winner vs Anthony McGill |
Qualifier 4
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 7 | Alfie Burden vs Rebecca Kenna |
Winner vs Xu Si |
Winner vs Jamie Jones |
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| Winner route 7 vs Winner route 8 |
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| 8 | Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Gao Yang |
Winner vs Zak Surety |
Winner vs Neil Robertson |
Qualifier 5
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 9 | Sean O’Sullivan vs Bulscu Revesz |
Winner vs James Cahill |
Winner vs Zhou Yuelong |
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| Winner route 9 vs Winner route 10 |
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| 10 | Andres Petrov vs Ahmed Elsayed |
Winner vs Jamie Clarke |
Winner vs Jak Jones |
Qualifier 6
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 11 | Adam Duffy vs Mink Nutcharut |
Winner vs Ashley Hugill |
Winner vs Stephen Maguire |
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| Winner route 11 vs Winner route 12 |
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| 12 | Andrew Higginson vs Duane Jones |
Winner vs Michael White |
Winner vs Yuan Sijun |
Qualifier 7
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 13 | Louis Heathcote vs Oliver Sykes |
Winner vs Oliver Strains |
Winner vs Elliot Slessor |
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| Winner route 13 vs Winner route 14 |
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| 14 | Stuart Carrington vs Himanshu Jain |
Winner vs Liam Highfield |
Winner vs Stuart Bingham |
Qualifier 8
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 15 | Alexander Ursenbacher vs Iulian Boiko |
Winner vs Anthony Hamilton |
Winner vs Robbie Williams |
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| Winner route 15 vs Winner route 16 |
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| 16 | Allan Taylor vs Vladislav Gradinari |
Winner vs Lukas Kleckers |
Winner vs Chris Wakelin |
Qualifier 9
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 17 | Marco Fu vs Baipat Siripaporn |
Winner vs Ken Doherty |
Winner vs Hossein Vafaei |
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| Winner route 17 vs Winner route 18 |
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| 18 | Jiang Jun vs Amir Sarkhosh |
Winner vs Fan Zhengyi |
Winner vs Sam Craigie |
Qualifier 10
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 19 | Hammad Miah vs Haydon Pinhey |
Winner vs Julien Leclercq |
Winner vs Joe O’Connor |
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| Winner route 19 vs Winner route 20 |
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| 20 | Muhammad Asif vs Daniel Womersley |
Winner vs Aaron Hill |
Winner vs Matthew Selt |
Qualifier 11
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 21 | Ma Hailong vs Victor Sarkis |
Winner vs Martin O’Donnell |
Winner vs Cao Yupeng |
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| Winner route 21 vs Winner route 22 |
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| 22 | Oliver Brown vs Reanne Evans |
Winner vs Dylan Emery |
Winner vs Pang Junxu |
Qualifier 12
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 23 | Fergal O’Brien vs Mostafa Dorgham |
Winner vs Graeme Dott |
Winner vs Jackson Web page |
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| Winner route 23 vs Winner route 24 |
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| 24 | Lengthy Zehuang vs Sydney Wilson |
Winner vs Andy Hicks |
Winner vs Noppon Saengkham |
Qualifier 13
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 25 | Rod Lawler vs Gong Chenzhi |
Winner vs Ben Mertens |
Winner vs Si Jiahui |
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| Winner route 25 vs Winner route 26 |
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| 26 | Stan Moody vs Mohamed Shehab |
Winner vs Tian Pengfei |
Winner vs Wu Yize |
Qualifier 14
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 27 | Xing Zihao vs Michael Holt |
Winner vs Daniel Wells |
Winner vs Lyu Haotian |
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| Winner route 27 vs Winner route 28 |
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| 28 | Jenson Kendrick vs Bai Yulu |
Winner vs Ben Woollaston |
Winner vs Jordan Brown |
Qualifier 15
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 29 | Liam Pullen vs Anton Kazakov |
Winner vs Sanderson Lam |
Winner vs Xiao Guodong |
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| Winner route 29 vs Winner route 30 |
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| 30 | Peng Yisong vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul |
Winner vs David Lilley |
Winner vs David Gilbert |
Qualifier 16
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 31 | Mihamed Ibrabim vs Peter Strains |
Winner vs Scott Donaldson |
Winner vs Joe Perry |
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| Winner route 31 vs Winner route 32 |
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| 32 | Ashley Carty vs Liam Graham |
Winner vs John Astley |
Winner vs Ryan Day |
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