Wuhan Open 2024 draw, schedule, TV channel, prize money and odds

10/04/2024 09:59 AM

The second edition of the Wuhan Open gets underway on Sunday, with Judd Trump aiming to defend the title he won last year.

The world number one has been in fabulous form so far this season, winning the Shanghai Masters and the brand new Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.

He is the favourite to win yet another title and pick up the lovely trophy in Wuhan again, just as he did after his 10-7 victory over Ali Carter in last year’s final.

There are some big names missing from the field as Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Allen and Dave Gilbert have all withdrawn in the week leading up to the event.

Mark Williams chose not to enter the tournament, while there have been some major casualties in the qualifying rounds played in Leicester back in July.

Chief among them was Mark Selby who was stunned 5-4 by Long Zehuang so won’t be able to follow up on his brilliant British Open success last week in Cheltenham.

Also suffering somewhat surprising defeats in qualifying were the likes of Stuart Bingham, Tom Ford, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, Ricky Walden, Stephen Maguire and Zhou Yuelong.

Wuhan Open draw and schedule

Sunday 6 October
(UK times)
3am
Judd Trump vs Antoni Kowalski (Rd1)
Yuan Sijun vs Cai Wei (Rd1)
Zhang Anda vs Dean Young (Rd1)
Jordan Brown vs Zhou Jinhao (Rd1)
Martin O’Donnell vs Huang Hao (Rd1)
Haris Tahir vs Chris Wakelin (Rd2)
David Lilley vs Allan Taylor (Rd2)
7am
Mark Joyce vs Mitchell Mann (Rd1)
Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Duane Jones (Rd2)
Jackson Page vs Neil Robertson (Rd2)
Dylen Emery vs Long Zehuang (Rd2)
Stan Moody vs Ryan Day (Rd2)
Jimmy Robertson vs Barry Hawkins (Rd2)
12.30pm
Ding Junhui vs Robbie McGuigan (Rd1)
Kyren Wilson vs Liam Davies (Rd1)
Matt Selt vs Pang Junxu (Rd2)
Jak Jones vs Tian Pengfei (Rd2)
Jack Lisowski vs Iulian Boiko (Rd2)
Ali Carter vs Mark Davis (Rd2)
Marco Fu vs Louis Heathcote (Rd2)

Monday 7 October

3am
Trump/Kowalski vs He Guoqiang
Anthony McGill vs Mostafa Dorgham
Ben Woollaston vs Gary Wilson
7.30am
O’Sullivan/Mann vs Sanderson Lam
Hammad Miah vs Robbie Williams
Zhang/Young vs Graeme Dott
Hossein Vafaei vs Brown/Zhou
Cheung Ka Wei vs Wu Yize
Elliot Slessor vs Gilbert/Wang
Xiao Guodong vs Andrew Pagett
Aaron Hill vs Wilson/Davies
12.30pm
John Higgins vs Fan Zhengyi
Rob Milkins vs Zak Surety
Yuan/Cai vs Xing
Xu Si vs Ding/McGuigan
Daniel Womersley vs Si Jiahui
O’Donnell/Huang vs Sunny Akani
Shaun Murphy vs Anthony Hamilton
Noppon Saengkham vs Jimmy White

How to watch the Wuhan Open

The event will be shown on Eurosport and Discovery+ in the UK.

Wuhan Open prize money

Winner: £140,000
Runner-up: £63,000
Semi-final: £30,000
Quarter-final: £16,000
Last 16: £12,000
Last 32: £8,000
Last 64: £4,500
Highest break: £5,000

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