2024 BetVictor Welsh Open
Tournament information
Dates12–18 February 2024 (2024-02-12 – 2024-02-18)
VenueVenue Cymru
CityLlandudno
CountryWales
OrganisationWorld Snooker Tour
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£427,000
Winner's share£80,000
Defending champion Robert Milkins (ENG)
← 2023

The 2024 Welsh Open (officially the 2024 BetVictor Welsh Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that is scheduled to take place from 12 to 18 February 2024 at Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales. The 33rd edition of the Welsh Open, first held in 1992, it will be the 13th ranking event of the 2023–24 season, following the German Masters and preceding the Players Championship. It will also be the fourth and last tournament in the Home Nations Series, following the Scottish Open, and the eighth and last tournament in the season's European Series, following the German Masters. Sponsored by BetVictor, the tournament will be broadcast by BBC Wales domestically, Eurosport and Discovery+ in the rest of UK and Europe, and by other broadcasters worldwide. The winner will receive the Ray Reardon trophy and £80,000 from a total prize fund of £427,000.

Qualification for the tournament is scheduled to take place from 25 to 27 January at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Qualifying matches involving the top 16 players in the world rankings and two Welsh wildcards will be held over to be played at the main venue in Llandudno.

Robert Milkins is the defending champion, having defeated Shaun Murphy 9‍–‍7 in the final of the 2023 event.

Format

The event will be the 33rd consecutive edition of the Welsh Open since it was first played in 1992. The fourth and last event in the season's Home Nations Series, the eighth and last event in the European Series, and the 13th ranking tournament of the 2023–24 snooker season, it is scheduled to be staged from 12 to 18 February 2024 at Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales.[1][2] Qualification for the tournament is scheduled to take place from 25 to 27 January at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Qualifying matches involving the top 16 players in the world rankings and two Welsh wildcards will be held over to be played at the main venue in Llandudno.[3]

All matches will be played as the best of seven frames until the quarter-finals, which will be the best of nine. The semi-finals will be the best of 11, and the final will be a best of 17 frames match played over two sessions. The defending champion is Robert Milkins, who defeated Shaun Murphy 9‍–‍7 in the 2023 final to lift his second ranking trophy, also securing the European Series bonus of £150,000 for winning the most cumulative prize money across the series' eight events.[4]

Prize fund

The tournament winner will receive the Ray Reardon trophy. The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:[1]

  • Winner: £80,000
  • Runner-up: £35,000
  • Semi-final: £17,500
  • Quarter-final: £11,000
  • Last 16: £7,500
  • Last 32: £4,500
  • Last 64: £3,000
  • Highest break: £5,000
  • Total: £427,000

Main draw

The draw for the tournament is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, whilst players in bold denote match winners.[5] All matches are played as the best of seven frames until the quarter-finals, which are best of nine. The semi-finals are best of 11, and the final is a best of 17 frames match played over two sessions.

Top half

Last 64
Best of 7 frames 		Last 32
Best of 7 frames 		Last 16
Best of 7 frames 		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
          
 Robert Milkins (ENG) (1) OR
 Jamie Jones (WAL)
 Dean Young (SCO) OR
 Allan Taylor (ENG)
 
 
 David Gilbert (ENG) (32) OR
 Ken Doherty (IRL)
 Michael White (WAL) OR
 Oliver Lines (ENG)
 
 
 Jack Lisowski (ENG) (16) OR
 Oliver Brown (ENG)
 Liam Pullen (ENG) OR
 Rebecca Kenna (ENG)
 
 
 Gary Wilson (ENG) (17) OR
 Mark Davis (ENG)
 Muhammad Asif (PAK) OR
 Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND)
 
 
 Long Zehuang (CHN) OR
 Andy Lee (HKG)
 Anthony McGill (SCO) (24) OR
 Manasawin Phetmalaikul (THA)
 
 
 Baipat Siripaporn (THA) OR
 Sanderson Lam (ENG)
 Mark Williams (WAL) OR
 John Astley (ENG)
 
 
 Matthew Stevens (WAL) OR
 Louis Heathcote (ENG)
 Ricky Walden (ENG) (25) OR
 Andy Hicks (ENG)
 
 
 Reanne Evans (ENG) OR
 Stuart Carrington (ENG)
 Neil Robertson (AUS) (8) OR
 Jackson Page (WAL)
 
 
 Mark Allen (NIR) (5) OR
 Cao Yupeng (CHN)
 Rory Thor (MAS) OR
 Ma Hailong (CHN)
 
 
 Si Jiahui (CHN) (28) OR
 Stephen Maguire (SCO)
 Mink Nutcharut (THA) OR
 Andrew Pagett (WAL)
 
 
 Ding Junhui (CHN) (12) OR
 Jenson Kendrick (ENG)
 Peng Yisong (CHN) OR
 Robbie Williams (ENG)
 
 
 Zhou Yuelong (CHN) (21) OR
 Adam Duffy (ENG)
 James Cahill (ENG) OR
 Jamie Clarke (WAL)
 
 
 David Lilley (ENG) OR
 Victor Sarkis (BRA)
 Ryan Day (WAL) (20) OR
 Mostafa Dorgham (EGY)
 
 
 Tian Pengfei (CHN) OR
 Rod Lawler (ENG)
 John Higgins (SCO) (13) OR
 Mohamed Ibrahim (EGY)
 
 
 Stephen Hendry (SCO) OR
 Ross Muir (SCO)
 Matthew Selt (ENG) (29) OR
 Sam Craigie (ENG)
 
 
 Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI) OR
Winner between two wildcard players
 Judd Trump (ENG) (4) OR
 Liam Highfield (ENG)

Bottom half

Last 64
Best of 7 frames 		Last 32
Best of 7 frames 		Last 16
Best of 7 frames 		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
          
 Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (3) OR
 Liam Graham (SCO)
 Dominic Dale (WAL) OR
 Jimmy White (ENG)
 
 
 Lyu Haotian (CHN) (30) OR
 Jordan Brown (NIR)
 Stan Moody (ENG) OR
 Sean O'Sullivan (ENG)
 
 
 Zhang Anda (CHN) (14) OR
 Ahmed Aly Elsayed (USA)
 Jak Jones (WAL) OR
 Liu Hongyu (CHN)
 
 
 Hossein Vafaei (IRN) (19) OR
 Scott Donaldson (SCO)
 Julien Leclercq (BEL) OR
 Alfie Burden (ENG)
 
 
 Dylan Emery (WAL) OR
 Fergal O'Brien (IRL)
 Noppon Saengkham (THA) (22) OR
 Himanshu Jain (IND)
 
 
 Andrew Higginson (ENG) OR
 Xing Zihao (CHN)
 Ali Carter (ENG) (11) OR
 Elliot Slessor (ENG)
 
 
 Hammad Miah (ENG) OR
 Ben Mertens (BEL)
 Joe Perry (ENG) (27) OR
 Fan Zhengyi (CHN)
 
 
 Aaron Hill (IRL) OR
 Anton Kazakov (UKR)
 Mark Selby (ENG) (6) OR
 Yuan Sijun (CHN)
 
 
 Shaun Murphy (ENG) (7) OR
 David Grace (ENG)
 Daniel Wells (WAL) OR
 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA)
 
 
 Stuart Bingham (ENG) (26) OR
 Marco Fu (HKG)
 Zak Surety (ENG) OR
 Mark Joyce (ENG)
 
 
 Kyren Wilson (ENG) (10) OR
 Ashley Carty (ENG)
 Andres Petrov (EST) OR
 Anthony Hamilton (ENG)
 
 
 Chris Wakelin (ENG) (23) OR
 Jimmy Robertson (ENG)
 Ryan Thomerson (AUS) OR
 Martin O'Donnell (ENG)
 
 
 Ian Burns (ENG) OR
 Lukas Kleckers (GER)
 Tom Ford (ENG) (18) OR
 Ben Woollaston (ENG)
 
 
 Xiao Guodong (CHN) OR
 Ashley Hugill (ENG)
 Barry Hawkins (ENG) (15) OR
 He Guoqiang (CHN)
 
 
 Martin Gould (ENG) OR
 Wu Yize (CHN)
 Pang Junxu (CHN) (31) OR
 Graeme Dott (SCO)
 
 
 Joe O'Connor (ENG) OR
 Xu Si (CHN)
 Luca Brecel (BEL) (2) OR
 Jiang Jun (CHN)

Qualifying

Qualification for the tournament is scheduled to take place from 25 to 27 January at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Although matches involving the top 16 players in the world rankings and two Welsh wildcards (Riley Powell and Liam Davies) will be held over to be played at the final venue. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, whilst players in bold denote match winners.[6][7]

Llandudno

One pre-qualifying match between two Welsh wildcards will be played in Llandudno on 12 February:

The held-over matches to be played in Llandudno on 12 February will be as follows:[8][7]

Barnsley

The qualifying matches to be played in Barnsley will be as follows:[8][7]

25 January

26 January

27 January

References

  1. 1 2 "BetVictor Welsh Open". World Snooker Tour. 10 March 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "BetVictor Welsh Open (2024)". snooker.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "BetVictor Welsh Open 2024 draw". World Snooker Tour. 21 December 2023. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Bob Bonanza: Milkins wins title and bonus". World Snooker Tour. 19 February 2023. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Welsh Open (2024) bracket". snooker.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  6. ↑ "BetVictor Welsh Open 2024 Qualifiers" (PDF). World Snooker Tour. 18 December 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 "Welsh Open Qualifiers (2024)". snooker.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  8. 1 2 "World Snooker – Live Scores". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
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