The 2024/25 snooker season is beneath manner, and the primary trophies of the brand new time period shall be handed out through the month of July.
It gained’t be till into September that we are able to get correctly immersed within the newest marketing campaign on the World Snooker Tour.
A stop-start opening implies that there are solely two occasions scheduled to be performed between June and the top of August.
However silverware shall be gained in July, together with a prestigious invitational title, so let’s check out what snooker is on the horizon.
Championship League Snooker
June 10 – July 3
Championship League Snooker started a number of weeks in the past on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester, launching the brand new season as has grow to be customary in recent times.
The remaining exchanges of the prolonged event will happen through the first few days of July.
4 gamers have already made it via Stage Two and are assured spots within the final eight of the competitors on Wednedsay.
Monday and Tuesday’s play will see the opposite 4 gamers be part of them in Stage Three, when the ultimate two teams of the occasion shall be performed.
The 2 table-toppers on Wednesday will then duke it out over a dash five-frame format to find out the season’s first rating champion.
Shanghai Masters
July 15 – 21
The Shanghai Masters, one of the crucial prestigious invitational tournaments in snooker lately, takes place later in July.
Ronnie O’Sullivan has gained the occasion the final 4 occasions it has been staged, together with final yr when he overcame Luca Brecel in a detailed remaining.
The format sees the highest 16 from the official world rankings record welcomed to the Shanghai Grand Stage.
Eight different spots within the 24-player subject are taken up by Chinese language rivals – the 4 highest ranked cueists on the primary tour along with 4 younger wildcard amateurs.
O’Sullivan would be the favorite within the outright betting market to land what could be a record-extending sixth Shanghai Masters title.
World champion Kyren Wilson, world primary Mark Allen, and O’Sullivan’s huge rivals Judd Trump and Mark Selby are among the many different high-profile stars within the draw.
2024 Shanghai Masters draw
Spherical 1
Zhang Anda vs Wildcard
Ali Carter vs Wildcard
Tom Ford vs Si Jiahui
Mark Williams vs Wildcard
Gary Wilson vs Pang Junxu
Jak Jones vs Wildcard
John Higgins vs Lyu Haotian
Barry Hawkins vs Zhou Yuelong
Spherical 2
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Zhang/Wildcard
Ding Junhui vs Carter/Wildcard
Luca Brecel vs Ford/Si
Judd Trump vs Williams/Wildcard
Mark Allen vs G. Wilson/Pang
Mark Selby vs Jones/Wildcard
Shaun Murphy vs Higgins/Lyu
Kyren Wilson vs Hawkins/Zhou
Qualifying Rounds
July 25 – August 3
In the direction of the top of the month, there’s a huge batch of qualifiers pencilled in on the Mattioli Enviornment in Leicester.
The inaugurual Xi-an Grand Prix may have its preliminary stage held from July twenty fifth to July twenty seventh.
That shall be rapidly adopted by qualifying for each the Wuhan Open (July twenty eighth to July thirtieth) and the British Open (July thirty first to August third).
The attracts for these occasions haven’t been launched but.
What different snooker occasions are on in July, 2024?
The subsequent event on the World Ladies’s Snooker Tour doesn’t happen till August when the US Ladies’s Open returns to Seattle.
It’s the same state of affairs on the WDBS circuit, with the German Masters scheduled for the primary week of August.
On the newbie scene, the second occasion on the Center East Q Tour shall be staged from July 19 to 21 in Dubai.
If of any extra attention-grabbing tournaments being staged all over the world in July, tell us within the feedback part beneath.
2024/25 WST calendar
Observe: Dates are provisional and topic to vary
MAY
Twenty first to June 1st
Q College
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
twenty second to June 2nd
Asia/Oceania Q College
(BSAT Academy, Bangkok)
JUNE
tenth to Fifteenth
Championship League Snooker Week 1
seventeenth to twenty second
Championship League Snooker Week 2
twenty fourth to twenty ninth
Championship League Snooker Week 3
JULY
1st to third
Championship League Snooker Last Levels
Fifteenth-Twenty first
Shanghai Masters
(Shanghai, China)
twenty fifth to August third
– Xian Grand Prix qualifiers
– British Open qualifiers
– Wuhan Open qualifiers
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
AUGUST
nineteenth to twenty fifth
Xi’an Grand Prix
(Xi’an, China)
twenty sixth to twenty ninth
– Wuhan Open qualifiers
– British Open qualifiers
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
thirtieth to September seventh
Saudi Masters
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
SEPTEMBER
twelfth to twenty second
English Open (together with qualifiers)
(Brentwood Centre, Brentwood)
twenty third to twenty ninth
British Open
(The Centaur, Cheltenham)
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Northern Eire Open qualifiers
(Ponds Forge, Sheffield)
OCTOBER
1st to third
Worldwide Championship qualifiers
(Ponds Forge, Sheffield)
sixth to twelfth
Wuhan Open
(Wuhan, China)
twentieth to twenty seventh
Northern Eire Open
(Waterfront Corridor, Belfast)
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Scottish Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Enviornment, Sheffield)
NOVEMBER
third to tenth
Worldwide Championship
(Tianjin, China)
eleventh to seventeenth
Champion of Champions
(Toughsheet Neighborhood Stadium, Bolton)
sixteenth to Twenty first
UK Championship qualifiers
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
twenty third to December 1st
UK Championship
(York Barbican, York)
DECEMBER
4th to seventh
Shoot Out
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
ninth to Fifteenth
Scottish Open
(Meadowbank Sports activities Centre, Edinburgh)
sixteenth to twenty second
– German Masters qualifiers
– World Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Enviornment, Sheffield)
JANUARY
twelfth to nineteenth
The Masters
(Alexandra Palace, London)
twenty seventh to February 2nd
German Masters
(Tempodrom, Berlin)
FEBRUARY
tenth to sixteenth
Welsh Open
(Venue Cymru, Llandudno)
TBC
World Open
(Yushan, China)
MARCH
TBC
World Grand Prix
(TBC)
seventeenth to twenty third
Gamers Championship
(Telford, England)
thirty first to April sixth
Tour Championship
(Manchester Central, Manchester)
APRIL
seventh to sixteenth
World Championship qualifiers
(EIS, Sheffield)
nineteenth to Might fifth
World Snooker Championship
(Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
Featured photograph credit score: WST
