The draw has been made for the new Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, where players will be competing for a top prize that matches that of the World Championship.
144 players head to Riyadh for the first ever Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters with big money and ranking points on the line.
The tiered draw sees the lowest ranked players enter the fray at the start of the tournament on 30 August along with a string of local wildcards.
The format is then comparable to the World Championship and UK Championship, with higher-ranked players continuing to join the fray until the top 16 get involved in the fifth round.
Players coming in and losing at certain rounds will get the prize money on offer for losing at that point, but will not get that money on their rankings, so the pressure is on to win that opening match.
Especially with prize money set at this eye-watering level…
Winner: £500,000
Runner-up: £200,000
Semi-finals: £100,000
Quarter-finals: £50,000
Last 16: £30,000
Last 32: £20,000
Last 48: £11,000
Last 80: £7,000
Last 112: £4,000
Last 144: £2,000
There is not a further draw at the last 32 stage, as there is at the World and UK Championships, so the top 16 do know who they could and couldn’t face in their first matches.
Top half of the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters draw
Bottom half of the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters draw
Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters first round draw
Allan Taylor vs Adeel Aqdus
Baipat Siripaporn vs Mohamed Elkhayat
Michael Holt vs Ahmad Abul
Oliver Lines vs Faisal Bahashwan
Robbie McGuigan vs Abdulraouf Saigh
Rory Thor vs Omar Alajlani
Chris Totten vs Haris Tahir
Reanne Evans vs Simon Blackwell
Mink Nutcharut vs Kusai Hamed
Farakh Ajaib vs Haitham Al Mahri
Julien Leclercq vs Dylan Emery
Lei Peifan vs Bai Yulu
Artemijs Zizins vs Lim Kok Leung
Ben Mertens vs Abdullah Alotayyani
Liam Graham vs Ali Hussain Ali
Cheung Ka Wai vs Josh Thomond
Jimmy White vs Mohamed Shehab
Huang Jiahao vs Ahmed Elsayed
Antoni Kowalski vs Habib Sabah
Andrew Pagett vs Wang Yuchen
Gong Chenzhi vs Ali Jalil
Bulcsu Revesz vs Iulian Boiko
Haydon Pinhey vs Ayman Alamri
Mitchell Mann vs Paul Deaville
Menaswin Phetmalaikul vs Amir Sarkhosh
Stan Moody vs Ziyad Alqabbani
Dean Young vs Saleh Alamoudi
Duane Jones vs Khalid Alkamali
Liam Davies vs Ken Doherty
Kreishh Gurbaxani vs Sunny Akani
Mostafa Dorgham vs Jonas Luz
Zak Surety vs Ali Alobaidi
Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters schedule
Round one: Seeds 81-112 v seeds 113-144 (August 30th)
Round two: Those 32 winners v seeds 49-80 (August 31st)
Round three: Those 32 winners v seeds 17-48 (September 1st)
Round four: Those 32 winners play each other (September 2nd)
Round five: Those 16 winners v seeds 1-16 in the last 32 (September 3rd)
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