Main tour …

Professional snooker returns to Belfast for the 2024 Northern Ireland Open on Sunday.

WST shared a piece about Neil Robertson who would become the first player to win all four “Home Nations” events should he triumph in Belfast in ten days time, on Sunday 27 October 2024.

The draw is available on snooker.org, in a format that I find much easier to understand than what World Snooker offers. At the time of writing, Ronnie is in the draw and scheduled to play Long Zehuang on Monday 21 October. IF Ronnie does indeed show up and play this will be a very tricky match. In the last event, the 2024 Wuhan Open,, we have seen how good a player Long is.

WST has also announced the draw for the 2024 Scottish Open Qualifiers

BetVictor Scottish Open Qualifiers Draw

The draw for the qualifying rounds of the 2024 BetVictor Scottish Open is now available. CLICK HERE for the match schedule.

The qualifiers take place from October 28th to 30th in Sheffield, with winners going through to the final stages in Edinburgh in December. 

Notable ties in the opening qualifying rounds include:

Gong Chenzhi v Antoni Kowalski
Stan Moody v Iulian Boiko
Ross Muir v Ken Doherty
Bulcsu Revesz v Bai Yulu
Jimmy White v Hatem Yassen

The final stages take place at the Meadowbank Centre in Edinburgh from December 9-15.

Quite frankly, the way WST presents this draw is not particularly easy to read, so here it is on snooker.org in a much “easier to read” presentation. Eddie on snooker.org has also worked his way to “building” the draw for the main event in December. For what it’s worth, Ronnie has entered the event and could face Anthony Hamilton, Xing Zihao or Manassawin Phetmalaikul in his opening match.

Amateur Snooker …

A number of EBSA events are currently being played in Portugal

Two of those events have already been played to conclusion.

The Seniors event has been won by Craig Steadman. The Women event has been won by Rebecca Kenna.

You will find all the details about those two events here.

Craig’s victory earns him a place in the draw for the 2025 World Seniors Snooker Championship at the Crucible next May. There were 77 players in the Seniors field.

The Women field was much more modest with 22 players. It’s worth noting though that, en route to the title, Rebecca beat Wendy Jans by 4-1. Wendy Jans, from Belgium, has, for many years, been one of the very best female players in the World. Just look at her bio on Wikipedia. That’s some prize list !

The 6-reds championship is currently underway. The live scoring page is here. There are 71 players in the draw, with a host of known names. Notably Anton Kazakov, Florian Nüssle, Iulian Boiko and Brian Ochoiski are all playing in this one.

A number of matches are available live on YouTube. You will find them on Dariuz Goral account or looking up for EBSA. At least table 4 and table 6 are being streamed at the time of writing.