We’re about midway by way of the month of August, however there hasn’t been that a lot snooker in the course of the current interval on the principle tour.
That’s set to alter within the upcoming couple of weeks with a pair of latest rating occasions boasting monster prize funds.
There has solely been one accomplished rating event on the 2024/25 calendar thus far.
Ali Carter beat Jackson Web page to seize the Championship League Snooker title on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester final month.
The invitational Shanghai Masters competitors was additionally staged in July with Judd Trump romping to glory in China.
Since then, there was a batch of qualifiers earlier than a respite within the schedule during the last couple of weeks.
It’ll be again to the inexperienced baize on Monday, although, with the motion for the remainder of August and past subsequently coming thick and quick on the World Snooker Tour.
Xi’an Grand Prix
August 19 to August 25
China’s latest rating occasion will see the Xi’an Grand Prix happen subsequent week and a whopping high prize of £177,000 up for grabs.
A preliminary part was held on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester, which whittled down the sphere considerably.
A number of first-round matches have been held over to the venue, together with these involving world champion Kyren Wilson, world primary Mark Allen, and fan favorite Ronnie O’Sullivan.
Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy, who contested the Shanghai Masters ultimate when the gamers have been final in China, safely made it by way of to the final 64 from the qualifiers.
The Xi’an Grand Prix will likely be obtainable to look at dwell and free of charge on Matchroom.Dwell with commentary obtainable from Fergal O’Brien and Steven Hallworth.
2024 Xi’an Grand Prix draw
Spherical of 128 (bo9)
High Half
Kyren Wilson vs Haris Tahir (Aug 19)
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 vs TBC Wildcard (Aug 19)
Xu Si 5-4 Jiang Jun
Ding Junhui vs Alfie Burden (Aug 19)
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Wang Yuchen (Aug 19)
Révész Bulcsú 5-0 David Grace
Neil Robertson 5-2 Allan Taylor
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Bai Yulu
Zhang Anda vs Oliver Traces (Aug 19)
Graeme Dott vs TBC Wildcard (Aug 19)
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 vs TBC Wildcard (Aug 19)
Shaun Murphy 5-1 Mitchell Mann
Jamie Clarke vs TBC Wildcard (Aug 19)
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 vs Liu Hongyu (Aust 19)
Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters
August thirtieth to September seventh
Following the play in Xi’an, there will likely be a fair greater new rating event hosted in Saudi Arabia.
The extremely anticipated, to not point out controversial, Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters begins on August thirtieth and runs into the primary week of September.
A mega prize fund of round £2.3 million is on supply for the 144 opponents who will likely be collaborating on the venue.
From that, £500,000 will likely be awarded to the winner which takes it line with the cheque presently on supply on the World Championship in Sheffield.
Already dubbed the “fourth main” by the World Snooker Tour, the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters carries a staggered draw with tiered seeding just like the one adopted for the World and UK Championships.
Meaning the highest 16 seeds will likely be seeded by way of to the final 32 of the occasion.
Particulars of the ultimate draw and on watch the inaugural Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters are but to be introduced.
What different snooker occasions are in August 2024?
Final weekend, Ng On Yee beat Anupama Ramachandran to say glory on the 2024 US Girls’s Snooker Open in Seattle.
Victory for the Hong Kong cueist introduced her profession tally of rating titles on the World Girls’s Snooker Tour to 21.
Ranked quantity two within the ladies’s sport, Ng dominated the event in America with out shedding a single body.
Elsewhere, the primary Q Tour occasion of the season in Europe will happen this week from August fifteenth to August 18th in Leeds.
This season, there’ll once more be professional tickets obtainable by way of the feeder beginner circuit.
Earlier within the month, Vinnie Calabrese captured a fourth successive title on the Asia Pacific Q Tour sequence.
If you understand of any extra attention-grabbing tournaments being staged world wide in August, tell us within the feedback part under.
2024/25 WST calendar
Notice: Dates are provisional and topic to alter
COMPLETED
Championship League Snooker
Champion: Ali Carter
Shanghai Masters
Champion: Judd Trump
JULY
twenty fifth to August third
– Xian Grand Prix qualifiers
– British Open qualifiers
– Wuhan Open qualifiers
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
AUGUST
nineteenth to twenty fifth
Xi’an Grand Prix
(Xi’an, China)
thirtieth to September seventh
Saudi Masters
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
SEPTEMBER
twelfth to twenty second
English Open (together with qualifiers)
(Brentwood Centre, Brentwood)
twenty third to twenty ninth
British Open
(The Centaur, Cheltenham)
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Northern Eire Open qualifiers
(Ponds Forge, Sheffield)
OCTOBER
1st to third
Worldwide Championship qualifiers
(Ponds Forge, Sheffield)
sixth to twelfth
Wuhan Open
(Wuhan, China)
twentieth to twenty seventh
Northern Eire Open
(Waterfront Corridor, Belfast)
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Scottish Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Enviornment, Sheffield)
NOVEMBER
third to tenth
Worldwide Championship
(Tianjin, China)
eleventh to seventeenth
Champion of Champions
(Toughsheet Neighborhood Stadium, Bolton)
sixteenth to twenty first
UK Championship qualifiers
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
twenty third to December 1st
UK Championship
(York Barbican, York)
DECEMBER
4th to seventh
Shoot Out
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
ninth to fifteenth
Scottish Open
(Meadowbank Sports activities Centre, Edinburgh)
sixteenth to twenty second
– German Masters qualifiers
– World Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Enviornment, Sheffield)
JANUARY
twelfth to nineteenth
The Masters
(Alexandra Palace, London)
twenty seventh to February 2nd
German Masters
(Tempodrom, Berlin)
FEBRUARY
tenth to sixteenth
Welsh Open
(Venue Cymru, Llandudno)
MARCH
TBC
World Grand Prix
(TBC)
third to ninth
World Open
(Yushan, China)
seventeenth to twenty third
Gamers Championship
(Telford, England)
thirty first to April sixth
Tour Championship
(Manchester Central, Manchester)
APRIL
seventh to sixteenth
World Championship qualifiers
(EIS, Sheffield)
nineteenth to Might fifth
World Snooker Championship
(Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
Featured photograph credit score: WST
