A tremendous field of the world’s top stars will head to Llandudno in February for the BetVictor Welsh Open, with Robert Milkins to begin the defence of his title against Jamie Jones.
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Running from February 12 to 18 at Venue Cymru on the beautiful North Wales coast, it will be the final event in the 2023/24 BetVictor Series, potentially with a £150,000 bonus on the line. Last season, Milkins scooped the jackpot by beating Shaun Murphy 9-7 in a thrilling final, which also earned him that huge bonus.
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First round matches involving the top 16 seeds, as well as the two Welsh wild cards, have been held over to the venue in Llandudno. They are:
Riley Powell v Liam Davies
Robert Milkins v Jamie Jones
Jack Lisowski v Oliver Brown
Mark Williams v John Astley
Neil Robertson v Jackson Page
Mark Allen v Cao Yupeng
Ding Junhui v Jenson Kendrick
John Higgins v Mohamed Ibrahim
Alexander Ursenbacher v Powell or Davies
Judd Trump v Liam Highfield
Ronnie O’Sullivan v Liam Graham
Zhang Anda v Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Ali Carter v Elliot Slessor
Mark Selby v Yuan Sijun
Shaun Murphy v David Grace
Kyren Wilson v Ashley Carty
Barry Hawkins v He Guoqiang
Luca Brecel v Jiang Jun
Most of these matches will be played on the opening day, Monday February 12, with the schedule to be announced soon.
All other first round matches will take place at the qualifiers which run from January 25 to 27 in Barnsley. Notable matches include:
David Gilbert v Ken Doherty
Gary Wilson v Mark Davis
Si Jiahui v Stephen Maguire
Stephen Hendry v Ross Muir
Dominic Dale v Jimmy White
Stuart Bingham v Marco Fu
The Welsh Open is one of the sport’s most historic ranking events having been ever-present on the calendar since 1992 – only the World Championship and UK Championship have been running for longer. It will be televised by BBC Wales, Eurosport, discovery+, CCTV5, Matchroom Live and many other broadcasters worldwide.
