The highest ten gamers from the world rankings shall be within the draw taking part on the 2024 Riyadh Season Snooker Championship in Saudi Arabia.
The World Snooker Tour returns to the Kingdom for the third time this 12 months, with the profitable invitational event scheduled for December 18th to twentieth.
It’s successfully the identical occasion because the Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker that passed off in March.
Ronnie O’Sullivan emerged because the inaugural champion when he defeated Luca Brecel within the ultimate to assert the £250,000 champion’s cheque.
Each gamers will return for the second version of the competitors, which has been given an up to date identify presumably to raised distinguish it from the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters rating occasion.
Snooker’s golden ball
This is similar occasion that controversially launched a brand new golden ball value 20 factors that may solely be potted on the finish of a 147 break.
It signifies that the very best potential break for the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship is 167 (175 with a free ball).
In March, there was a $500,000 reward for the primary participant to attain the brand new feat, however not one of the gamers obtained significantly shut.
Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Common Leisure Authority (GEA), instantly introduced that the jackpot could be doubled to $1,000,000 for the event’s subsequent version.
Who else is within the draw?
The highest six from the official world rankings shall be seeded via to the quarter-finals.
That features world primary Judd Trump and world champion Kyren Wilson, who’re in the identical half of the draw and will conflict within the semi-finals.
Reigning champion Ronnie O’Sullivan is the highest seed and options within the high half of the draw alongside world quantity 5 Mark Selby.
Marks Allen and Williams additionally get pleasure from byes via to the final eight with the pair drawn to face Selby and Trump respectively.
The remaining 4 skilled gamers will enter in two staggered rounds that can launch the 2024 Riyadh Season Snooker Championship.
Chinese language duo Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda – numbers 9 and ten on this planet – should begin within the opening spherical towards two native wildcards.
Ding encounters Abdulraouf Saigh whereas Zhang meets Ahmed Aseeri, with the Saudi Arabian pair having come via a qualifying event on the Ronnie O’Sullivan Snooker Academy.
The winners of these ties will advance to face Shaun Murphy and Luca Brecel earlier than the quarter-final lineup is full.
2024 Riyadh Season Snooker Championship draw
– Spherical of 12 (bo7) –
Wednesday, Dec 18th – From 2pm UTC
Ding Junhui vs Abdulraouf Saigh
Zhang Anda vs Ahmed Aseeri
– Spherical of 10 (bo7) –
Wednesday, Dec 18th – From 7pm UTC
Shaun Murphy vs Ding/Saigh
Luca Brecel vs Zhang/Aseeri
– Quarter-Finals (bo7) –
Thursday, Dec nineteenth – From 2pm UTC
Mark Selby vs Mark Allen
Kyren Wilson vs Brecel/Zhang/Aseeri
Thursday, Dec nineteenth – From 7pm UTC
Judd Trump vs Mark Williams
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Murphy/Ding/Saigh
– Semi-Finals (bo7) –
Friday, Dec twentieth – From 2pm UTC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
– Last (bo9) –
Friday, Dec twentieth – 7pm UTC
TBC vs TBC
How one can watch
Followers can have the chance to benefit from the 2024 Riyadh Season Snooker Championship on DAZN by merely signing up for a free registration.
The complete listing of broadcasters is beneath:
Worldwide and free
DAZN
China
Huya.com
CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel
CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China
Now TV
Malaysia
Astro
Philippines
Faucet
Taiwan
Sportcast
Thailand
True Sport
Indonesia
Sportstars/Imaginative and prescient+
Featured photograph credit score: WST
