2024 Scottish Open (snooker)
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| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 9–15 December 2024 |
| Venue | Meadowbank Sports Centre |
| City | Edinburgh |
| Country | Scotland |
| Organisation | World Snooker Tour |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £550,400 |
| Winner's share | £100,000 |
| Defending champion |  Gary Wilson (ENG) |
← 2023 | |
The 2024 Scottish Open (officially the 2024 BetVictor Scottish Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 9 to 15 December 2024 at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It's the eleventh ranking event of the 2024–25 season (following the 2024 Shoot Out and preceding the 2025 German Masters) and the third of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series (following the 2024 English Open and the 2024 Northern Ireland Open and preceding the 2025 Welsh Open). The winner will receive £100,000 from a total prize fund of £550,400, the Stephen Hendry trophy, and a place in the 2025 Champion of Champions invitational event.[1]
Gary Wilson is the twice-defending champion, having successfully defended his 2022 title by defeating Noppon Saengkham 9–5 in the 2023 final.[2][3]
Format
[edit]The event will take place from 9 to 15 December 2024 at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.[1][4] Qualifying took place from 28 to 30 October 2024 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England.[5][6][7]
The WST implemented a new format for the four Home Nations events this season. In qualifying round one, players seeded 65–96 face those seeded 97–128. In qualifying round two, the 32 round one winners play those seeded 33–64. The 32 round two winners then play the top 32 seeds.[8]
All matches are played as best of seven frames until the quarter-finals, which are best of nine. The semi-finals are best of 11, and the final is a best-of-17-frame match played over two sessions.[5][4]
The qualifying rounds were broadcast by Discovery+ in Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) and by the CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel and Huya Live in China. They were available from Matchroom Sport in all other territories.[9]
Prize fund
[edit]The tournament winner will receive the Stephen Hendry trophy.[10] The breakdown of prize money for the event, an increase of £123,400 from the previous event, is shown below:[1]
- Winner: £100,000
- Runner-up: £45,000
- Semi-final: £21,000
- Quarter-final: £13,200
- Last 16: £9,000
- Last 32: £5,400
- Last 64: £3,600
- Last 96: £1,000
- Highest break: £5,000
- Total: £550,400
Summary
[edit]Qualifying rounds
[edit]Round 1
[edit]On 28 October Stan Moody beat Iulian Boiko 4–2, Louis Heathcote whitewashed Joshua Thomond, and Dean Young beat Daniel Womersley 4–2.[11] On 29 October Jimmy White defeated Hatem Yassen 4–1.[12]
Round 2
[edit]On 29 October Young beat Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4–3, Anthony McGill beat Allan Taylor 4–2, He Guoqiang whitewashed Heathcote, Ishpreet Singh Chadha beat Sanderson Lam 4–2, Julien Leclercq defeated Jamie Clarke 4–3, and Lyu Haotian recovered from 0–3 down to beat Wang Yuchen 4–3.[12] On 30 October Graeme Dott beat Jiang Jun 4–2, Alexander Ursenbacher recovered from 0–2 down to beat Ben Woollaston 4–3, making a 137 break in the third frame, and Lei Peifan beat Dominic Dale 4–1. Jackson Page defeated White 4–1, Farakh Ajaib beat Elliot Slessor also by 4–1, and Moody beat Tian Pengfei 4–2. Daniel Wells whitewashed Rory Thor making a 112 break in the second frame, his 100th professional career century, and Jamie Jones came from 2–3 down to defeat Oliver Lines 4–3.[13]
Final rounds
[edit]The draw for the final rounds is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players. Players in bold denote match winners.[14][4]
Top half
[edit]| Last 64 Best of 7 frames | Last 32 Best of 7 frames | Last 16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | ||||||||||||||
| Gary Wilson (ENG) (1)
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 Long Zehuang (CHN)
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| Joe O'Connor (ENG) (32)
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| Lyu Haotian (CHN)
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 Neil Robertson (AUS) (16)
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| Fan Zhengyi (CHN)
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| Tom Ford (ENG) (17)
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 Antoni Kowalski (POL)
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 Hossein Vafaei (IRN) (24)
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| Lei Peifan (CHN)
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| Shaun Murphy (ENG) (9)
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 Daniel Wells (WAL)
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| Stuart Bingham (ENG) (25)
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| Jimmy Robertson (ENG)
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| Mark Williams (WAL) (8)
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| David Lilley (ENG)
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| Mark Selby (ENG) (5)
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| Stuart Carrington (ENG)
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 Noppon Saengkham (THA) (28)
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| Ricky Walden (ENG)
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| Ali Carter (ENG) (12)
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 Graeme Dott (SCO)
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| David Gilbert (ENG) (21)
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| Robbie Williams (ENG)
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| Jack Lisowski (ENG) (20)
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 Jordan Brown (NIR)
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| Si Jiahui (CHN) (13)
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| Ma Hailong (CHN)
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| Ryan Day (WAL) (29)
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| Anthony McGill (SCO)
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| Mark Allen (NIR) (4)
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| He Guoqiang (CHN)
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Bottom half
[edit]| Last 64 Best of 7 frames | Last 32 Best of 7 frames | Last 16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | ||||||||||||||
| Judd Trump (ENG) (3)
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 Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND)
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| Wu Yize (CHN) (30)
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 Farakh Ajaib (PAK)
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| John Higgins (SCO) (14)
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| Ian Burns (ENG)
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| Barry Hawkins (ENG) (19)
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 Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI)
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| Chris Wakelin (ENG) (22)
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| Scott Donaldson (SCO)
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| Zhang Anda (CHN) (11)
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| Stan Moody (ENG)
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| Pang Junxu (CHN) (27)
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| Dean Young (SCO)
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| Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (6)
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| Xing Zihao (CHN)
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 Luca Brecel (BEL) (7)
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| Julien Leclercq (BEL)
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| Zhou Yuelong (CHN) (26)
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| Yuan Sijun (CHN)
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| Ding Junhui (CHN) (10)
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| Mark Davis (ENG)
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| Robert Milkins (ENG) (23)
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| Jackson Page (WAL)
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| Xiao Guodong (CHN) (18)
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| Xu Si (CHN)
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| Jak Jones (WAL) (15)
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| Jamie Jones (WAL)
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| Stephen Maguire (SCO) (31)
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| Matthew Selt (ENG)
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| Kyren Wilson (ENG) (2)
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| David Grace (ENG)
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Qualifying rounds
[edit]The results of the qualifying rounds are shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the players' seeding, an "a" indicates amateur players who were not on the main World Snooker Tour, and players in bold denote match winners.[15][5]
| Round 1 (Last 128) Best of 7 frames | Round 2 (Last 96) Best of 7 frames | |||||
| Liu Hongyu (CHN) (65) | 4 | Long Zehuang (CHN) (64) | 4 | |||
| Reanne Evans (ENG) (109) | 1 | Liu Hongyu (CHN) (65) | 2 | |||
| Liam Davies (WAL) (96) | 3 | Lyu Haotian (CHN) (33) | 4 | |||
 Wang Yuchen (HKG) (113) | 4 | Wang Yuchen (HKG) (113) | 3 | |||
| Andrew Higginson (ENG) (80) | 4 | Fan Zhengyi (CHN) (49) | 4 | |||
| Paul Deaville (ENG) (a) | 2 | Andrew Higginson (ENG) (80) | 0 | |||
| Gong Chenzhi (CHN) (81) | 2 | Joe Perry (ENG) (48) | 3 | |||
| Antoni Kowalski (POL) (101) | 4 | Antoni Kowalski (POL) (101) | 4 | |||
| Lei Peifan (CHN) (88) | 4 | Dominic Dale (WAL) (41) | 1 | |||
| Haydon Pinhey (ENG) (105) | 3 | Lei Peifan (CHN) (88) | 4 | |||
 Rory Thor (MAS) (73) | 4 | Daniel Wells (WAL) (56) | 4 | |||
| Mitchell Mann (ENG) (111) | 2 | Rory Thor (MAS) (73) | 0 | |||
| Ben Mertens (BEL) (89) | 4 | Jimmy Robertson (ENG) (40) | 4 | |||
| Robbie McGuigan (NIR) (98) | 0 | Ben Mertens (BEL) (89) | 2 | |||
| Hammad Miah (ENG) (72) | 3 | David Lilley (ENG) (57) | 4 | |||
| Haris Tahir (PAK) (102) | 4 | Haris Tahir (PAK) (102) | 1 | |||
| Stuart Carrington (ENG) (69) | 4 |  Aaron Hill (IRL) (60) | 1 | |||
| Mink Nutcharut (THA) (106) | 1 | Stuart Carrington (ENG) (69) | 4 | |||
 Artemijs Žižins (LAT) (92) | 2 | Ricky Walden (ENG) (37) | 4 | |||
| Huang Jiahao (CHN) (108) | 4 | Huang Jiahao (CHN) (108) | 2 | |||
| Jiang Jun (CHN) (76) | 4 | Graeme Dott (SCO) (53) | 4 | |||
| Chris Totten (SCO) (104) | 0 | Jiang Jun (CHN) (76) | 2 | |||
| Zak Surety (ENG) (85) | 4 | Robbie Williams (ENG) (44) | 4 | |||
| Jack Borwick (SCO) (a) | 0 | Zak Surety (ENG) (85) | 2 | |||
| Liam Pullen (ENG) (84) | 3 | Jordan Brown (NIR) (45) | 4 | |||
 Mostafa Dorgham (EGY) (100) | 4 | Mostafa Dorgham (EGY) (100) | 2 | |||
| Ma Hailong (CHN) (77) | 4 | Matthew Stevens (WAL) (52) | 1 | |||
| Baipat Siripaporn (THA) (114) | 0 | Ma Hailong (CHN) (77) | 4 | |||
| Allan Taylor (ENG) (93) | 4 | Anthony McGill (SCO) (36) | 4 | |||
 Anton Kazakov (UKR) (a) | 0 | Allan Taylor (ENG) (93) | 2 | |||
| Louis Heathcote (ENG) (68) | 4 | He Guoqiang (CHN) (61) | 4 | |||
| Joshua Thomond (ENG) (a) | 0 | Louis Heathcote (ENG) (68) | 0 | |||
| Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND) (67) | 4 | Sanderson Lam (ENG) (62) | 2 | |||
 Ahmed Aly Elsayed (USA) (114) | 3 | Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND) (67) | 4 | |||
| Liam Graham (SCO) (94) | 2 | Elliot Slessor (ENG) (35) | 1 | |||
| Farakh Ajaib (PAK) (107) | 4 | Farakh Ajaib (PAK) (107) | 4 | |||
| Ian Burns (ENG) (78) | 4 | Martin O'Donnell (ENG) (51) | 2 | |||
| Simon Blackwell (ENG) (a) | 1 | Ian Burns (ENG) (78) | 4 | |||
| Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI) (83) | 4 | Ben Woollaston (ENG) (46) | 3 | |||
| Michael Holt (ENG) (99) | 3 | Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI) (83) | 4 | |||
| Duane Jones (WAL) (86) | 2 | Scott Donaldson (SCO) (43) | 4 | |||
| Amir Sarkhosh (IRN) (97) | 4 | Amir Sarkhosh (IRN) (97) | 3 | |||
| Stan Moody (ENG) (75) | 4 | Tian Pengfei (CHN) (54) | 2 | |||
| Iulian Boiko (UKR) (a) | 2 | Stan Moody (ENG) (75) | 4 | |||
| Dean Young (SCO) (91) | 4 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA) (38) | 3 | |||
| Daniel Womersley (ENG) (a) | 2 | Dean Young (SCO) (91) | 4 | |||
| Xing Zihao (CHN) (70) | 4 | Anthony Hamilton (ENG) (59) | 1 | |||
| Manasawin Phetmalaikul (THA) (112) | 3 | Xing Zihao (CHN) (70) | 4 | |||
| Alfie Burden (ENG) (71) | 2 | Jamie Clarke (WAL) (58) | 3 | |||
| Julien Leclercq (BEL) (103) | 4 | Julien Leclercq (BEL) (103) | 4 | |||
 Bulcsú Révész (HUN) (90) | 4 | Yuan Sijun (CHN) (39) | 4 | |||
| Bai Yulu (CHN) (116) | 1 | Bulcsú Révész (HUN) (90) | 2 | |||
| Ross Muir (SCO) (74) | w/o | Mark Davis (ENG) (55) | 4 | |||
| Ken Doherty (IRL) (118)[a] | w/d | Ross Muir (SCO) (74) | 0 | |||
| Jimmy White (ENG) (87) | 4 | Jackson Page (WAL) (42) | 4 | |||
| Hatem Yassen (EGY) (a) | 1 | Jimmy White (ENG) (87) | 1 | |||
| Andrew Pagett (WAL) (82) | 4 | Xu Si (CHN) (47) | 4 | |||
| Dylan Emery (WAL) (a) | 3 | Andrew Pagett (WAL) (82) | 1 | |||
| Oliver Lines (ENG) (79) | 4 | Jamie Jones (WAL) (50) | 4 | |||
| Ayaan Iqbal (SCO) (a) | 1 | Oliver Lines (ENG) (79) | 3 | |||
| Cheung Ka Wai (HKG) (95) | 4 | Matthew Selt (ENG) (34) | 4 | |||
| Kreishh Gurbaxani (IND) (115) | 0 | Cheung Ka Wai (HKG) (95) | 0 | |||
| Ashley Carty (ENG) (66) | 4 | David Grace (ENG) (63) | 4 | |||
 Jonas Luz (BRA) (110) | 0 | Ashley Carty (ENG) (66) | 1 | |||
- Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walkover
Century breaks
[edit]Qualifying stage centuries
[edit]A total of 12 century breaks were made during the qualifying stage of the tournament in Sheffield.[16]
- 139 – Xu Si
- 137 – Alexander Ursenbacher
- 132 – Stuart Carrington
- 127 – Antoni Kowalski
- 123 – Oliver Lines
- 116 – He Guoqiang
- 112 – Daniel Wells
- 108 – David Grace
- 107 – Hammad Miah
- 105 – Zak Surety
- 105 – Allan Taylor
- 100 – Ricky Walden
Notes
[edit]- ^ Ken Doherty withdrew for medical reasons and so Ross Muir was given a walkover.[5]
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