ISTORIE
A treia ediție. Cine câștigă șapte meciuri, primește 140 000 de lire sterline. Cine câștigă șase nu primește decât 63 000, iar cine câștigă cinci, doar 16 000 – diferențe mari între premii. Este de dorit așa ceva ?
Finalele precedente
2023 : Judd Trump 10–7 Ali Carter
2024 : Xiao Guodong 10–7 Si Jiahui
Un singur break maxim : Si Jiahui (2024, semifinale)
FORMAT
De la prima rundă până la sferturi : best of 9, semifinalele: best of 11, finala : best of 19.
PREMII
Campionul : 140 000 de lire sterline
Finalistul : 63 000
Semifinale : 30 000
Sferturi : 16 000
Optimi : 12 000
Șaisprezecimi : 8 000
Runda a 2-a : 4 500
RUNDA 1
* Xiao Guodong – Mink Nutcharut
Ishpreet Singh Chadha – Yao Pengcheng
Elliot Slessor – Oliver Lines
Ricky Walden – David Grace
Chris Wakelin – Marco Fu
Anthony McGill – Jimmy White
Wu Yize – Louis Heathcote
Matthew Selt – Sunny Akani
Xu Si – Chris Totten
Jak Jones – Oliver Brown
Jamie Jones – Liu Wenwei
Barry Hawkins – Julien Leclercq
Noppon Saengkham – Robbie McGuigan
Zhou Yuelong – Lan Yuhao
Stan Moody – Antoni Kowalski
* Ding Junhui – wildcard
Mark Williams – Chatchapong Nasa
Mark Davis – Liam Davies
Joe O'Connor – Jiang Jun
Ben Woollaston – Ken Doherty
Mark Selby – Alexander Ursenbacher
Michael Holt – Liam Graham
David Gilbert – Cheung Ka Wai
Luca Brecel – Haris Tahir
Daniel Wells – Chang Bingyu
Stuart Bingham – Liam Highfield
Sanderson Lam – Zhao Hanyang
Zhang Anda – Steven Hallworth
Jimmy Robertson – Liam Pullen
Lei Peifan – Ng On Yee
Aaron Hill – Sam Craigie
Kyren Wilson – Connor Benzey
* Judd Trump – Farakh Ajaib
Liu Hongyu – Ian Burns
Jack Lisowski – Amir Sarkhosh
Ryan Day – Jonas Luz
Shaun Murphy – Michał Szubarczyk
Jordan Brown – Duane Jones
Gary Wilson – Gao Yang
Lyu Haotian – Bai Yulu
Martin O'Donnell – Haydon Pinhey
Tom Ford – Mateusz Baranowski
David Lilley – Reanne Evans
Neil Robertson – Leone Crowley
He Guoqiang – Artemijs źiŸins
Yuan Sijun – Xu Yichen
Long Zehuang – Dylan Emery
John Higgins – Huang Jiahao
* Ronnie O'Sullivan – Allan Taylor
Scott Donaldson – Mitchell Mann
Pang Junxu – Hatem Yassen
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh – Fergal Quinn
* Mark Allen – wildcard
Zak Surety – Gong Chenzhi
* Hossein Vafaei – wildcard
Fan Zhengyi – Ben Mertens
Jackson Page – Ross Muir
Ali Carter – Florian Nüßle
Robert Milkins – Wang Yuchen
Si Jiahui – Bulcsú Révész
* Robbie Williams – wildcard
Stephen Maguire – Kreishh Gurbaxani
Matthew Stevens – Sahil Nayyar
* Zhao Xintong – Iulian Boiko
(* meciurile amânate)
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Laureată a Premiului Oscue - German Masters 2018, German Masters 2019, Masters 2022
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. ++ Fulton Sheen
