The Shanghai Masters commences on Monday with reigning champion Ronnie O’Sullivan and world champion Kyren Wilson fronting the 2024 draw.
The primary large event of the 2024/25 season sees the highest 16 from the world rankings take part on the Shanghai Grand Stage.
They are going to be joined by eight others from China – the following 4 highest-ranked Chinese language gamers and a further 4 wildcard amateurs.
Shanghai Masters prize cash
Champion: £210,000
Runner-up: £105,000
Semi-final: £70,000
Quarter-final: £35,000
Final 16: £17,500
Final 24: £10,000
Highest break: £10,000
Who’re the previous champions?
Ronnie O’Sullivan is a file five-time winner of the occasion – twice when it was beforehand staged as a rating occasion and all 3 times since its transition to invitational standing in 2018.
Dominic Dale was the primary Shanghai Masters winner again in 2007, however the Welshman gained’t be in motion this time round.
Ricky Walden and Stuart Bingham are different prior champions who’ve did not obtain an invite.
John Higgins, Mark Selby, Ding Junhui, Kyren Wilson, and Ali Carter are all within the 2024 Shanghai Masters draw, nevertheless, having beforehand gained the event when it was a rating occasion.
Who’s within the 2024 Shanghai Masters draw?
Because it’s a 24-player discipline, the highest eight seeds have been awarded byes via to the final 16 of the competitors.
That features reigning champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, world champion Kyren Wilson, and Mark Allen – the latter set to compete in his first occasion as the game’s world primary.
Judd Trump, Luca Brecel, Mark Selby, Shaun Murphy, and residential favorite Ding Junhui – the Shanghai Masters champion in 2013 and 2016 – are the opposite gamers from the highest eight within the rankings who take pleasure in the advantage of having to play one much less match.
The opposite members of the highest 16, in the meantime, embrace former finalist Mark Williams and 2010 winner Ali Carter.
2024 Shanghai Masters
Outright betting odds
Ronnie O’Sullivan: 9/4
Judd Trump: 4/1
Mark Allen: 8/1
Mark Selby: 8/1
Kyren Wilson: 8/1
Shaun Murphy: 14/1
Ding Junhui: 18/1
Mark Williams: 18/1
John Higgins: 18/1
Ali Carter: 28/1
2024 Shanghai Masters
Outright betting odds
Ronnie O’Sullivan: 9/4
Judd Trump: 4/1
Mark Allen: 8/1
Mark Selby: 8/1
Kyren Wilson: 8/1
Shaun Murphy: 14/1
Ding Junhui: 18/1
Mark Williams: 18/1
John Higgins: 18/1
Ali Carter: 28/1
Carter gained the season-opening Championship League Snooker event earlier this month to assert a sixth profession rating success.
Gary Wilson, Zhang Anda, Tom Ford, Jak Jones, John Higgins, and Barry Hawkins are moreover within the draw and can play one of many different eight Chinese language gamers.
The 4 from the rankings checklist who’ve certified are Si Jiahui, Zhou Yuelong, Pang Junxu, and Lyu Haotian.
Amateurs Zhou Jinhao and Wang Xinbo have been nominated by the Chinese language Billiards and Snooker Affiliation, whereas Cao Jin and Qiu Lei earned spots via a qualifying occasion that concluded on the weekend.
2024 Shanghai Masters draw
All instances in UTC+1
Spherical 1 (bo11)
Zhang Anda vs Zhou Jinhao
(July 15: 2:30am)
Ali Carter vs Qiu Lei
(July 15: 2:30am)
Tom Ford vs Si Jiahui
(July 15: 7am)
Mark Williams vs Wang Xinbo
(July 15: 7am)
Gary Wilson vs Pang Junxu
(July 16: 2:30am)
Jak Jones vs Cao Jin
(July 16: 2:30am)
John Higgins vs Lyu Haotian
(July 15: 12:30pm)
Barry Hawkins vs Zhou Yuelong
(July 15: 12:30pm)
Spherical 2 (bo11)
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Zhang/Zhou
(July 16: 7am)
Ding Junhui vs Carter/Qiu
(July 16: 12:30pm)
Luca Brecel vs Ford/Si
(July 16: 7am)
Judd Trump vs Williams/Wang
(July 16: 12:30pm)
Mark Allen vs G. Wilson/Pang
(July 17: 7am)
Mark Selby vs Jones/Cao
(July 17: 7am)
Shaun Murphy vs Higgins/Lyu
(July 17: 12:30pm)
Kyren Wilson vs Hawkins/Zhou
(July 17: 12:30pm)
Quarter-Finals (bo11)
TBC vs TBC
(July 18: 12:30pm)
TBC vs TBC
(July 18: 12:30pm)
TBC vs TBC
(July 18: 7am)
TBC vs TBC
(July 18: 7am)
Semi-Finals (bo19)
TBC vs TBC
(July 20: 7am and 12:30pm)
TBC vs TBC
(July 19: 7am and 12:30pm)
Closing (bo21)
TBC vs TBC
(July 21: 7am and 12:30pm)
How one can watch the 2024 Shanghai Masters?
There are a number of choices accessible to look at the upcoming snooker stay, relying in your location.
Under is a full checklist, as beforehand printed on the World Snooker Tour web site:
Europe (together with UK and Eire)
Eurosport and discovery+
China
CCTV5
Huya.com
CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat
CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China
Now TV
Thailand
Truesport
Taiwan
Sportcast
All different territories
Matchroom.stay
Featured photograph credit score: WST
