The first of the two “Macau exhibitions”, the Melco Style presents Macau Masters (Melco), will start tomorrow. and runs from 22 to 25 December 2023. The above link will get you to the event page on snooker.org. The six players involved in this event are: John Higgins, Luca Brecel, Mark Selby, Barry Hawkins, Ali Carter and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. Theppy is traveling to Macau with his family.

Mark Williams, yesterday, shared a picture of himself in Hong Kong

Nothing in this picture is in focus, which isn’t that easy to do!

They have all arrived safely…

The second exhibition, the Wynn presents Macau Masters, is also available on snooker.org and will run from 26 to 29 December 2023. There are 8 players involved in this one: Jack Lisowski, Judd Trump, Mark Williams, Kyren Wilson, Si Jiahui, Marco Fu, Ding Junhui and Ronnie.

WST has published the draw and format for the 2024 Welsh Open

Thursday 21 Dec 2023 08:30AM

A tremendous field of the world’s top stars will head to Llandudno in February for the BetVictor Welsh Open, with Robert Milkins to begin the defence of his title against Jamie Jones.

CLICK HERE FOR THE 2024 WELSH OPEN DRAW

CLICK HERE FOR THE QUALIFIERS FORMAT

Running from February 12 to 18 at Venue Cymru on the beautiful North Wales coast, it will be the final event in the 2023/24 BetVictor Series, potentially with a £150,000 bonus on the line. Last season, Milkins scooped the jackpot by beating Shaun Murphy 9-7 in a thrilling final, which also earned him that huge bonus.

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First round matches involving the top 16 seeds, as well as the two Welsh wild cards, have been held over to the venue in Llandudno. They are:

Riley Powell v Liam Davies
Robert Milkins v Jamie Jones
Jack Lisowski v Oliver Brown
Mark Williams v John Astley
Neil Robertson v Jackson Page
Mark Allen v Cao Yupeng
Ding Junhui v Jenson Kendrick
John Higgins v Mohamed Ibrahim
Alexander Ursenbacher v Powell or Davies
Judd Trump v Liam Highfield
Ronnie O’Sullivan v Liam Graham
Zhang Anda v Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Ali Carter v Elliot Slessor
Mark Selby v Yuan Sijun
Shaun Murphy v David Grace
Kyren Wilson v Ashley Carty
Barry Hawkins v He Guoqiang
Luca Brecel v Jiang Jun

Most of these matches will be played on the opening day, Monday February 12, with the schedule to be announced soon.

All other first round matches will take place at the qualifiers which run from January 25 to 27 in Barnsley. Notable matches include:

David Gilbert v Ken Doherty
Gary Wilson v Mark Davis
Si Jiahui v Stephen Maguire
Stephen Hendry v Ross Muir
Dominic Dale v Jimmy White
Stuart Bingham v Marco Fu

The Welsh Open is one of the sport’s most historic ranking events having been ever-present on the calendar since 1992 – only the World Championship and UK Championship have been running for longer. It will be televised by BBC Wales, Eurosport, discovery+, CCTV5, Matchroom Live and many other broadcasters worldwide.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=guIvtAykM3A%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26enablejsapi%3D1%26origin%3Dhttps%3A

Liam Graham facing Ronnie again??? Surely that’s random???