2024 World Open
Tournament information
Dates18–24 March 2024 (2024-03-18 – 2024-03-24)
VenueYushan Sport Centre
CityYushan
CountryChina
OrganisationWorld Snooker Tour
FormatRanking event
Defending champion Judd Trump (ENG)
← 2019

The 2024 World Open is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that is scheduled to take place from 18 to 24 March 2024 at the Yushan Sport Centre in Yushan, China. The fifth edition of the World Open held in Yushan since 2016, it will be the return of the event to the tour after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the 15th ranking event of the 2023–24 season, following the Players Championship and preceding the Tour Championship. It will also be the fourth and last major tournaments of the season to be held in China, following the International Championship.

Judd Trump is the defending champion, having defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 10‍–‍5 in the final of the 2019 event.

Qualification for the tournament is scheduled to take place from 22 to 24 January at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Qualifying matches involving defending champion Trump, reigning World Champion Luca Brecel, the two highest-ranked Chinese players Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, and four Chinese wildcards will be held over to be played at the main venue in Yushan.

Format

The 2024 World Open is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that is scheduled to take place from 18 to 24 March 2024 at the Yushan Sport Centre in Yushan, China.[1] The 15th ranking event of the 2023–24 season, and the fourth and last major tournament of the season to be held in China, the tournament is the fifth edition of the World Open held in Yushan since 2016, marking its return to the tour after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally created in 1982 as the Professional Players Tournament, the tournament was held in the UK as the Grand Prix and LG Cup from 1984 to 2009, and was renamed the World Open in 2010.[2][3] China hosted the event from 2012 to 2014 in Haikou, and in Yushan since 2016.[4][5][6]

The defending champion is Judd Trump, who defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 10‍–‍5 in the 2019 final.[7][8]

Qualification for the tournament is scheduled to take place from 22 to 24 January at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Qualifying matches involving defending champion Trump, reigning World Champion Luca Brecel, the two highest-ranked Chinese players Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, and four Chinese wildcards will be held over to be played at the main venue in Yushan.[9]

Main draw

The draw for the tournament is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, whilst players in bold denote match winners.[10]

Top half

Last 64 Last 32 Last 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals
          
 Judd Trump (ENG) (1) OR
 Rory Thor (MAS)
 Sanderson Lam (ENG) OR
 Wildcard player 3 (CHN)
 
 
 David Gilbert (ENG) (31) OR
 Anton Kazakov (UKR)
 Fan Zhengyi (CHN) (32) OR
 Dylan Emery (WAL)
 
 
 Jack Lisowski (ENG) (15) OR
 Lukas Kleckers (GER)
 Dominic Dale (WAL) OR
 Marco Fu (HKG)
 
 
 Gary Wilson (ENG) (16) OR
 Stuart Carrington (ENG)
 Scott Donaldson (SCO) OR
 David Lilley (ENG)
 
 
 Jak Jones (WAL) OR
 Ryan Thomerson (AUS)
 Anthony McGill (SCO) (23) OR
 Ashley Hugill (ENG)
 
 
 David Grace (ENG) OR
 Rebecca Kenna (ENG)
 Kyren Wilson (ENG) (8) OR
 Jimmy White (ENG)
 
 
 Jamie Jones (WAL) OR
 Rod Lawler (ENG)
 Ricky Walden (ENG) (24) OR
 Peng Yisong (CHN)
 
 
 Ben Woollaston (ENG) OR
 Ben Mertens (BEL)
 Iulian Boiko (UKR) OR
 Baipat Siripaporn (THA)
 
 
 Mark Selby (ENG) (5) OR
 Xing Zihao (CHN)
 Mark Davis (ENG) OR
 Adam Duffy (ENG)
 
 
 Si Jiahui (CHN) (27) OR
 Stan Moody (ENG)
 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA) OR
 Long Zehuang (CHN)
 
 
 John Higgins (SCO) (11) OR
 Ross Muir (SCO)
 Jackson Page (WAL) OR
 Liam Graham (SCO)
 
 
 Zhou Yuelong (CHN) (20) OR
 Jiang Jun (CHN)
 Wu Yize (CHN) OR
 Julien Leclercq (BEL)
 
 
 Matthew Stevens (WAL) OR
 Hammad Miah (ENG)
 Ryan Day (WAL) (19) OR
 Andrew Higginson (ENG)
 
 
 Elliot Slessor (ENG) OR
 Reanne Evans (ENG)
 Zhang Anda (CHN) (12) OR
 Allan Taylor (ENG)
 
 
 Jimmy Robertson (ENG) OR
 He Guoqiang (CHN)
 Matthew Selt (ENG) (28) OR
 Wildcard player 1 (CHN) OR
 Wildcard player 2 (CHN)
 
 
 Liam Highfield (ENG) OR
 Daniel Wells (WAL)
 Mark Allen (NIR) (4) OR
 Andres Petrov (EST)

Bottom half

Last 64 Last 32 Last 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals
          
 Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (3) OR
 Alfie Burden (ENG)
 Michael White (WAL) OR
 Stephen Hendry (SCO)
 
 
 Lyu Haotian (CHN) (29) OR
 Ashley Carty (ENG)
 Joe O'Connor (ENG) OR
 Aaron Hill (IRL)
 
 
 Robert Milkins (ENG) (13) OR
 Muhammad Asif (PAK)
 Sam Craigie (ENG) OR
 Ken Doherty (IRL)
 
 
 Hossein Vafaei (IRN) (18) OR
 Liam Pullen (ENG)
 Graeme Dott (SCO) OR
 Ian Burns (ENG)
 
 
 Cao Yupeng (CHN) OR
 John Astley (ENG)
 Noppon Saengkham (THA) (21) OR
 Himanshu Jain (IND)
 
 
 Jamie Clarke (WAL) OR
 Liu Hongyu (CHN)
 Ding Junhui (CHN) (10) OR
 Zak Surety (ENG)
 
 
 Xiao Guodong (CHN) OR
 Sean O'Sullivan (ENG)
 Joe Perry (ENG) (26) OR
 Martin O'Donnell (ENG)
 
 
 Xu Si (CHN) OR
 Andrew Pagett (WAL)
 Shaun Murphy (ENG) (6) OR
 Mohamed Ibrahim (EGY)
 
 
 Neil Robertson (AUS) (7) OR
 Victor Sarkis (BRA)
 Tian Pengfei (CHN) OR
 Mink Nutcharut (THA)
 
 
 Stuart Bingham (ENG) (25) OR
 Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND)
 Yuan Sijun (CHN) OR
 Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI)
 
 
 Ali Carter (ENG) (9) OR
 Ahmed Aly Elsayed (USA)
 Oliver Lines (ENG) OR
 Louis Heathcote (ENG)
 
 
 Chris Wakelin (ENG) (22) OR
 Andy Hicks (ENG)
 Jordan Brown (NIR) OR
 Wildcard player 4 (CHN)
 
 
 Robbie Williams (ENG) OR
 Andy Lee (HKG)
 Tom Ford (ENG) (17) OR
 Ma Hailong (CHN)
 
 
 Anthony Hamilton (ENG) OR
 Jenson Kendrick (ENG)
 Barry Hawkins (ENG) (14) OR
 Dean Young (SCO)
 
 
 Stephen Maguire (SCO) OR
 Mostafa Dorgham (EGY)
 Pang Junxu (CHN) (30) OR
 James Cahill (ENG)
 
 
 Mark Joyce (ENG) OR
 Oliver Brown (ENG)
 Luca Brecel (BEL) (2) OR
 Manasawin Phetmalaikul (THA)

Qualifying

Qualification for the tournament is scheduled to take place from 22 to 24 January at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Although matches involving defending champion Judd Trump, reigning World Champion Luca Brecel, the two highest-ranked Chinese players Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, and four Chinese wildcards will be held over to be played at the final venue. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, whilst players in bold denote match winners.[11][12]

Yushan

The held-over matches to be played in Yushan on 18 March are as follows:[13][12]

  •  Matthew Selt (ENG) (26) v  Wildcard player 1 (CHN) OR  Wildcard player 2 (CHN)

Barnsley

The qualifying matches to be played in Barnsley are as follows:[13][12]

22 January

23 January

24 January

Notes

  1. ↑ Pre-qualifing match to be played on 18 March between two of the Chinese wildcards to determine who will face Matthew Selt later that day.

References

  1. ↑ "The world's top events return to Yushan (世界顶级赛事回归玉山)". baijiahao.baidu.com. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "A brief history of the Grand Prix and LG Cup". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Brief History of the World Open". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Snooker's resurgence in China continues with Yushan to stage World Open". World Snooker Tour. 18 August 2023. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "World Open". World Snooker Tour. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  6. ↑ "World Open (2024)". snooker.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "Trump beats Un-Nooh in Yushan final". World Snooker Tour. 3 November 2019. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Judd Trump beats Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in World Open final". BBC Sport. 3 November 2019. Archived from the original on 4 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  9. ↑ "World Open draw". World Snooker Tour. 21 December 2023. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "World Open (2024) bracket". snooker.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "World Open 2024 qualifiers" (PDF). World Snooker Tour. 19 December 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  12. 1 2 3 "World Open qualifiers (2024)". snooker.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  13. 1 2 "World Snooker – Live Scores". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
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