The 2024 Xi’an Grand Prix commences on Monday with the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson, and Mark Allen within the draw.
China’s latest occasion presents a good-looking first prize and a possibility for gamers to seize rating silverware for less than the second time this season.
The match is being staged on the Qujiang E-Sports activities Centre in Xi’an, which is situated within the Shaanxi Province in central China.
Prize cash
Champion: £177,000
Runner-up: £76,000
Semi-final: £34,500
Quarter-Remaining: £22,350
R16: £14,000
R32: £9,400
R64: £5,350
Highest break: £5,000
Complete: £850,000
Who’s within the 2024 Xi’an Grand Prix draw?
A preliminary section of the competitors was held just a few weeks in the past, with nearly all of the first-round fixtures accomplished on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester.
A lot of the lineup for the final 64 is already identified, though some high-profile qualifying matches have been held over to the venue levels subsequent week.
These embody the matches involving world champion Kyren Wilson, world primary Mark Allen, and fan favorite Ronnie O’Sullivan.
Nationwide hero Ding Junhui’s match and the 4 video games involving Chinese language wildcards are among the many different ties to have been deferred.
Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy, who contested the ultimate of the final match held in China on the Shanghai Masters in July, each emerged comfortably from their round-of-128 video games in Leicester.
Jak Jones, hoping to construct on his run to the ultimate of the World Championship in Might, can also be by means of to the final 64 along with heavyweights John Higgins, Mark Williams, and Neil Robertson.
The total lineup for the 2024 Xi’an Grand Prix is under, and the draw might be recurrently up to date in the course of the week’s motion with the newest outcomes.
2024 Xi’an Grand Prix draw
Spherical of 128 (bo9)
Prime Half
Kyren Wilson 5-2 Haris Tahir
He Guoqiang 5-4 Ashley Carty
Anthony McGill 5-0 Xing Zihao
Ricky Walden 5-3 Liam Davies
John Higgins 5-2 Alexander Ursenbacher
Sunny Akani 5-2 Fan Zhengyi
Dean Younger 5-3 Robert Milkins
Jimmy Robertson 5-1 Huang Jiahao
Elliot Slessor 5-0 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Chris Wakelin 5-4 Rory Thor
Mark Davis 5-3 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Mark Williams 5-0 Liam Graham
Jamie Jones 5-2 Mostafa Dorgham
Stuart Bingham 5-1 Zhou Jinhao
Xu Si 5-4 Jiang Jun
Ding Junhui 4-5 Alfie Burden
Ronnie O’Sullivan 5-0 Wang Yuchen
Révész Bulcsú 5-0 David Grace
Neil Robertson 5-2 Allan Taylor
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Bai Yulu
Zhang Anda 5-1 Oliver Strains
Graeme Dott 5-2 Ma Shaojun
Hossein Vafaei 5-1 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Dylan Emery 5-2 Jackson Web page
Amir Sarkhosh 5-3 Joshua Thomond
Si Jiahui 5-4 Jimmy White
Gong Chenzhi 5-4 Anthony Hamilton
Tom Ford 5-3 Stan Moody
Matthew Selt 5-2 Ian Burns
Joe O’Connor 5-3 Duane Jones
Zak Surety 5-2 Sanderson Lam
Hammad Miah w/o Luca Brecel
Backside Half
Judd Trump 5-2 Antony Kowalski
Ma Hailong 5-3 Martin O’Donnell
Lyu Haotian 5-2 Baipat Siripaporn
Artemijs Zizins 5-3 Robbie Williams
Jak Jones 5-4 Robbie McGuigan
Tian Pengfei 5-0 Farakh Ajaib
Jack Lisowski 5-1 Ross Muir
Joe Perry 5-0 Mink Nutcharut
Jordan Brown 5-2 Liam Pullen
David Gilbert 5-1 Reanne Evans
Ben Mertens 5-4 Simon Blackwell
Gary Wilson 5-4 Lengthy Zehuang
Paul Deaville 5-3 Wu Yize
Pang Junxu 5-2 Michael Holt
Aaron Hill 5-2 Chris Totten
Mark Selby 5-3 Wang Xinbo
Shaun Murphy 5-1 Mitchell Mann
Jamie Clarke 5-0 Cao Jin
Noppon Saengkham 5-3 Andrew Pagett
Dominic Dale 5-4 Mohammed Shehab
Daniel Wells 5-4 Ali Carter
Julien Leclercq 5-4 Ben Woollaston
Zhou Yuelong 5-1 Haydon Pinhey
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-3 Lei Peifan
Matthew Stevens 5-0 Andrew Higginson
Ryan Day 5-4 Cheung Ka Wai
Scott Donaldson w/o Lim Kok Leong
Barry Hawkins 5-1 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Xiao Guodong 5-2 Iulian Boiko
Stephen Maguire 5-1 Ken Doherty
David Lilley 5-3 Louis Heathcote
Mark Allen 5-2 Liu Hongyu
Spherical of 64 (bo9)
Prime Half
Kyren Wilson 5-2 He Guoqiang
Anthony McGill 3-5 Ricky Walden
John Higgins 4-5 Sunny Akani
Dean Younger 4-5 Jimmy Robertson
Elliot Slessor 2-5 Chris Wakelin
Mark Davis 2-5 Mark Williams
Jamie Jones 3-5 Stuart Bingham
Xu Si 5-4 Alfie Burden
Ronnie O’Sullivan 5-2 Bulcsú Révész
Neil Robertson 2-5 Yuan Sijun
Zhang Anda 2-5 Graeme Dott
Hossein Vafaei 5-3 Dylan Emery
Amir Sarkhosh 3-5 Si Jiahui
Gong Chenzhi 5-1 Tom Ford
Matthew Selt 5-4 Joe O’Connor
Zak Surety 3-5 Hammad Miah
Backside Half
Judd Trump 5-0 Ma Hailong
Lyu Haotian 5-2 Artemijs Zizins
Jak Jones 5-3 Tian Pengfei
Jack Lisowski 5-2 Joe Perry
Jordan Brown 2-5 David Gilbert
Ben Mertens 1-5 Gary Wilson
Paul Deaville 0-5 Pang Junxu
Aaron Hill 0-5 Mark Selby
Shaun Murphy 5-0 Jamie Clarke
Noppon Saengkham 3-5 Dominic Dale
Daniel Wells 5-3 Julien Leclercq
Zhou Yuelong 2-5 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Matthew Stevens 2-5 Ryan Day
Barry Hawkins w/o Scott Donaldson
Xiao Guodong 5-1 Stephen Maguire
David Lilley 1-5 Mark Allen
Spherical of 32 (bo9)
Matches to be performed on Wednesday, August twenty first
Prime Half
Kyren Wilson vs Ricky Walden
Sunny Akani vs Jimmy Robertson
Chris Wakelin vs Mark Williams
Stuart Bingham vs Xu Si
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Yuan Sijun
Graeme Dott vs Hossein Vafaei
Si Jiahui vs Gong Chenzhi
Matthew Selt vs Hammad Miah
Backside Half
Judd Trump vs Lyu Haotian
Jak Jones vs Jack Lisowski
David Gilbert vs Gary Wilson
Pang Junxu vs Mark Selby
Shaun Murphy vs Dominic Dale
Daniel Wells vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ryan Day vs Barry Hawkins
Xiao Guodong vs Mark Allen
Spherical of 16 (bo9)
Matches to be performed on Thursday, August twenty second
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, August twenty third
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Semi-Finals (bo11)
Matches to be performed on Saturday, August twenty fourth
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Remaining (bo19)
Match to be performed on Sunday, August twenty fifth
TBC vs TBC
How can I watch the Xi’an Grand Prix?
The 2024 Xi’an Grand Prix might be accessible to observe stay and at no cost on the Matchroom.Reside streaming service.
Viewers can register at no cost to avail of day by day protection of the rating occasion on its platform.
This feature is on provide for followers world wide, excluding these residing in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Supporters in China can watch on CCTV5 and Huya, Hong Kong protection is on Now TV, whereas followers in Taiwan can benefit from the motion on Sportcast.
Who’s the betting favorite?
Ronnie O’Sullivan is the pre-tournament betting favorite for the 2024 Xi’an Grand Prix with odds of round 11/4.
The Rocket’s final rating title was the World Grand Prix in January, however he hasn’t received an occasion of such stature in China since 2017.
Judd Trump, the winner of the current non-ranking Shanghai Masters, boasts odds of round 4/1 with most main on-line bookies.
World champion Kyren Wilson is priced at 12/1, simply behind world primary Mark Allen who has odds of about 11/1.
Ali Carter, in the meantime, was the season-opening champion at Championship League Snooker and is 25/1 to triumph at back-to-back rating occasions.
Full protection of the match – together with experiences and previews – might be supplied right here on SnookerHQ.com all through the week’s play.
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