British Open Snooker 2024: Draw, results, schedule and format with Ronnie O’Sullivan in action

THE British Open returns adjacent week with immoderate of snooker's biggest stars successful action.

The iconic tourney uses a level gully which sees each players, careless of their satellite ranking, statesman successful the opening round.

It besides applies an 'FA Cup-style' gully for each stage, meaning determination is nary ranking extortion - and anyone tin gully anyone.

Many circular 1 matches of this year's British Open person already taken spot successful Leicester - but each the apical 16 seeds and others - person had their openers saved for the main venue successful Cheltenham and the TV cameras.

Defending champion Mark Williams volition beryllium looking to clasp the Clive Everton Trophy aft his epic 10-7 triumph implicit Mark Selby past year.

Snooker icon Ronnie O'Sullivan besides features successful Cheltenham arsenic helium hopes to amended connected his daze aboriginal elimination from the English Open past clip out.

When is the British Open 2024?

The British Open began connected July 31st - with immoderate players playing their circular 1 matches successful Leicester (results below).

First-round ties involving the apical 16 successful the satellite and others volition statesman connected Monday, September 23, astatine the Centaur Arena successful Cheltenham.

The tourney volition reason connected Sunday, September 29.

How to ticker the British Open 2024

The British Open volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected ITV4 successful the UK.

You tin unrecorded watercourse the lawsuit via the ITVX app/website.

Alternatively, you tin support up to day with each the enactment by pursuing SunSport's unrecorded blog.

What is the British Open 2024 format?

• Rounds 1 to 4: All matches are the champion of 7 frames
• Quarter-finals: Best of 9 frames (with mid-session interval)
• Semi-finals: Best of 11 frames (with mid-session interval)
• Final: Best of 19 frames - 2 sessions with scheduled mid-session intervals

What first-round matches person already been played successful the British Open 2024?

Below are each the first-round matches that took spot successful Leicester and the results:

• Ryan Day v Louis Heathcote - held implicit to main venue
• Graeme Dott 4-1 Matthew Stevens
• Si Jiahui 4-2 David Lilley
• Mink Nutcharut 1-4 Liam Graham
• Ricky Walden 4-3 Liu Hongyu
• Zak Surety 1-4 Ben Mertens
• Andrew Pagett 1-4 Neil Robertson
• Xiao Guodong 4-2 Huang Jiahao
• Jimmy White 0-4 Chris Totten
• Noppon Saengkham 4-3 Joe Perry
• Alfie Burden 4-3 Andrew Higginson
• Dean Young 3-4 Haris Tahir
• Matthew Selt 3-4 Ben Woollaston
• Ishpreet Singh Chadha 1-4 Jamie Clarke
• Oliver Lines 4-3 Lei Peifan
• Sunny Akani 4-0 Daniel Womersley
• Martin O'Donnell 4-1 Mitchell Mann
• Mostafa Dorgham 1-4 Hossein Vafaei
• Kok Leong Lim 4-1 Anthony Hamilton
• Xu Si 4-2 Ken Doherty
• Duane Jones 4-2 Dominic Dale
• David Grace 4-2 Jack Lisowski
• Artemijs Zizins 3-4 Allan Taylor
• Iulian Boiko 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
• Joshua Cooper 1-4 Elliot Slessor
• Fan Zhengyi 2-4 Zhou Yuelong
• Xing Zihao 3-4 Mark Joyce
• Stuart Bingham 4-3 He Guoqiang
• Michael Holt 4-0 Reanne Evans
• Ka Wai Cheung 4-0 Kreishh Gurbaxani
• Ma Hailong 4-2 Jimmy Robertson
• Simon Blackwell 4-2 Bai Yulu
• Joe O'Connor 2-4 Stan Moody
• Jamie Jones 2-4 Yuan Sijun
• Joshua Thomond 1-4 Marco Fu
• Alexander Ursenbacher 1-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
• Wang Yuchen 2-4 Hammad Miah
• Chris Wakelin 4-0 Haydon Pinhey
• Baipat Siripaporn 1-4 Wu Yize
• David Gilbert 4-0 Dylan Emery
• Amir Sarkhosh 3-4 Ashley Carty
• Robbie McGuigan 0-4 Mark Davis
• Jackson Page 1-4 Robbie Williams
• Ahmed Elsayed 2-4 Anton Kazakov
• Scott Donaldson 2-4 Tian Pengfei
• Antoni Kowalski 4-1 Daniel Wells
• Lyu Haotian 4-0 Anthony McGill
• Jiang Jun 1-4 Stephen Maguire
• Liam Pullen 0-4 Long Zehuang

British Open 2024 schedule

*Subject to change

Monday, September 23 (Round one)

From 1pm

• Mark Williams v Rory Thor
• Gong Chenzhi v Tom Ford
• Gary Wilson v Mark Allen
• Ding Junhui v Aaron Hill

From 2pm

• Luca Brecel v Mohamed Shebab
• Ryan Day v Louis Heathcote
• Robert Milkins v Judd Trump
• Ross Muir v John Higgins

From 7pm

• Barry Hawkins v Liam Davies
• Ronnie O'Sullivan v Manasawin Phetmalaikul
• Bulcsu Revesz v Ali Carter
• Shaun Murphy v Ian Burns

From 8pm

• Pang Junxu v Mark Selby
• Jordan Brown v Zhang Anda
• Sanderson Lam v Jak Jones
• Kyren Wilson v Julien Leclercq

Tuesday, September 24

From 10am

Schedule TBC

Wednesday, September 25

From 10am

Schedule TBC

Thursday, September 26

From 1pm

Schedule TBC

Friday, September 27

From 1pm

Schedule TBC

Saturday, September 28

From 1pm

Schedule TBC

Sunday, September 29

From 1pm

Schedule TBC

Who has won the British Open?

Here is simply a database of each the erstwhile British Open winners:

2023 Mark Williams
2022 Ryan Day
2021 Mark Williams
2004 John Higgins
2003 Stephen Hendry
2002 Paul Hunter
2001 John Higgins
2000 Peter Ebdon
1999 Stephen Hendry
1999 Fergal O'Brien
1998 John Higgins
1997 Mark Williams
1996 Nigel Bond
1995 John Higgins
1994 Ronnie O'Sullivan
1993 Steve Davis
1992 Jimmy White
1991 Stephen Hendry
1990 Bob Chaperon
1989 Tony Meo
1988 Stephen Hendry
1987 Jimmy White
1986 Steve Davis
1985 Silvino Francisco