British Open Draw

MJW starts his defence against Andres Petrov.

Can't see Neil Robertson in the draw.

ROS has Ursenbacher
Higgins has Hicks
Selby has Walden
Trump has Si
Zhao has Bai Langning

Wenbo returns against Dean Young.

Hendry has Zhang Anda

Other good games could be Murphy v Gary Wilson, Cao v Fu and Perry v Vafaei. Golden oldies match in Hamilton v Jimmy.

Iqbal and Asif in the draw for their first pro matches.

Selected matches will be held over to the televised stages.

Robbo was supposed to be in the draw…

But he ended up in the draw for the British Open Table -Tennis by mistake

Pity this has qualifiers.

I guess that's price you pay for longer matches.

A disgrace last year. Best of fives? Best of eleven final? Gone now.

Was it an open draw, without any seeding?

GeF wrote:Was it an open draw, without any seeding?

yes

The full draw is:

Mark Allen v Stuart Carrington
Alexander Ursenbacher v Ronnie O’Sullivan
Anthony Hamilton v Jimmy White
Xiao Guodong v David Lilley
Jak Jones v Andrew Pagett
Ricky Walden v Mark Selby
Elliot Slessor v Sean O’Sullivan
Zak Surety v Ross Muir
Peter Lines v Robert Milkins
Michael Judge v Craig Steadman
Andy Lee v Barry Pinches
Fraser Patrick v Alfie Burden
Michael White v Noppon Saengkham
Fergal O’Brien v Chang Bingyu
Matthew Stevens v Stephen Maguire
Fan Zhengyi v Jamie Clarke
John Astley v Rod Lawler
Peng Yisong v Dylan Emery
Duane Jones v Barry Hawkins
Mark Joyce v Asjad Iqbal
Cao Yupeng v Marco Fu
Ben Woollaston v James Cahill
Joe O’Connor v Chris Wakelin
Jamie O’Neill v David Grace
Shaun Murphy v Gary Wilson
Jenson Kendrick v Zhou Yuelong
Mark King v Lyu Haotian
Tom Ford v Mitchell Mann
Mark Davis v Kyren Wilson
Gerard Greene v Sanderson Lam
David Gilbert v Aaron Hill
Hammad Miah v Ali Carter
Zhang Jiankang v Reanne Evans
Joe Perry v Hossein Vafaei
Liang Wenbo v Dean Young
Adam Duffy v Ian Burns
Rebecca Kenna v Ryan Day
Jamie Jones v Scott Donaldson
Anthony McGill v Wu Yize
Yuan Sijun v Anton Kazakov
Ng On Yee v Ken Doherty
Dominic Dale v Jack Lisowski
Tian Pengfei v Sam Craigie
Julien LeClercq v Muhammad Asif
Matthew Selt v Lu Ning
Judd Trump v Si Jiahui
Pang Junxu v Jordan Brown
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Martin Gould
Allan Taylor v Lukas Kleckers
Jimmy Robertson v Louis Heathcote
Ryan Thomerson v Ben Mertens
Ding Junhui v Oliver Lines
Yan Bingtao v Oliver Brown
Bai Langning v Zhao Xintong
Himanshu Jain v Xu Si
Mink Nutcharut v Chen Zifan
Stephen Hendry v Zhang Anda
Andy Hicks v John Higgins
Lei Peifan v Stuart Bingham
Ashley Hugill v Robbie Williams
Mark Williams v Andres Petrov
Zhao Jianbo v Jackson Page
Graeme Dott v Luca Brecel
Liam Highfield v Li Hang

Selected matches will be held over to the venue in Milton Keynes, while the other first round matches will take place in the qualifying round in Wigan from August 9 to 14. The format will be released soon.

A bit of Dale vs Lisowski action.

Chances for Barry Pinches and Rock Steady Steadman to pick up rare wins.

Selby, Trump and the Ronster all with tricky first round ties.

I've just had a thought.

Will Discovery+ have the qualifiers for this, as it's an ITV4 tournament?

SteveJJ wrote:MJW starts his defence against Andres Petrov.

Can't see Neil Robertson in the draw.

ROS has Ursenbacher
Higgins has Hicks
Selby has Walden
Trump has Si
Zhao has Bai Langning

Wenbo returns against Dean Young.

Hendry has Zhang Anda

Other good games could be Murphy v Gary Wilson, Cao v Fu and Perry v Vafaei. Golden oldies match in Hamilton v Jimmy.

Iqbal and Asif in the draw for their first pro matches.

Selected matches will be held over to the televised stages.

Following on from a first meeting with Ronnie O'Sullivan in the opening group stage of the Championship League then encountering Anthony McGill in the European Masters, Alexander Ursenbacher has a strong claim for having received the hardest draws of anyone so far this season.

I think after this pandemic and Australia Being as Tight as a prisonar camp for 2 years Neil has obviously got a lot of catching up to Do.

But from a Snooker perspective, it will make it difficult for him to make up Ground when he comes back to get in the ITV Events.

Ronnie failed a few years ago of making up ground there's no guarantee once you start playing everything will click.

Wildey wrote:I think after this pandemic and Australia Being as Tight as a prisonar camp for 2 years Neil has obviously got a lot of catching up to Do.

But from a Snooker perspective, it will make it difficult for him to make up Ground when he comes back to get in the ITV Events.

Ronnie failed a few years ago of making up ground there's no guarantee once you start playing everything will click.

Bingham, McGill, Selby and Murphy will have to enter everything, at least early season to make sure they are in the top 16 come the end of the season.

SteveJJ wrote:

Wildey wrote:I think after this pandemic and Australia Being as Tight as a prisonar camp for 2 years Neil has obviously got a lot of catching up to Do.

But from a Snooker perspective, it will make it difficult for him to make up Ground when he comes back to get in the ITV Events.

Ronnie failed a few years ago of making up ground there's no guarantee once you start playing everything will click.

Bingham, McGill, Selby and Murphy will have to enter everything, at least early season to make sure they are in the top 16 come the end of the season.

If Selby has the same season as last season he will be comfortably inside the top 20 i expect so much more from him than last he will be inside the top 8 by the end of the season Top 4 will be harder to get to from the starting point hes in but who writing him off winning a 5th world title only fools would do that.