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tournament that took place from 12 to 22 September 2024 at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England. It was the fourth ranking event of the 202425 season (following the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters and preceding the

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) and the first of four tournaments in the season's

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(preceding the

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, the 2024 Scottish Open, and the 2025 Welsh Open). The event was broadcast by

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and

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in Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) and by other broadcasters internationally. The winner received £100,000 from a total prize fund of £550,400, the

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trophy, and a place in the

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invitational event.

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was the defending champion, having defeated

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97 in the 2023 final, but he lost 35 in the quarterfinals to Wu Yize, who went on to reach his maiden ranking final.

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defeated Wu 97 to win his second English Open title (following his previous win at the 2021 event) and the 24th ranking title of his career. It was Robertson's first victory at a ranking event since the

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, and he reentered the top 16 in the world rankings after the tournament.

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fell to 17th in the rankings, ending his record uninterrupted tenure of over 29 years inside the top 16. The event produced 69

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s, with 23 in the qualifying rounds and 46 in the later rounds, the highest being a

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by Fan Zhengyi in his second round qualifying match against Liam Pullen. Higgins made his 1,000th century break in professional competition in his last16 match against

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, becoming the second player to reach that milestone, after

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Format

The event took place from 12 to 22 September 2024 at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England. The WST implemented a new format for the four Home Nations events this season. In qualifying round one, players seeded 6596 face those seeded 97128. In qualifying round two, the 32 round one winners play those seeded 3364. The 32 round two winners then play the top 32 seeds. Both the qualifying rounds and the final rounds were played at the same venue, in Brentwood, with a day off after the end of the qualifying matches. All matches were played as best of seven until the quarterfinals, which were best of nine. The semifinals were best of 11, and the final was a bestof17 frame match played over two . The event was broadcast by

and DMAX in Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland); by the CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel, CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin and

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in China; by Now TV in Hong Kong; by Astro SuperSport in Malaysia and Brunei; by

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in Thailand; by TAP in the Philippines; and by Sportcast in Taiwan. It was available from

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in all other territories.

Prize fund

The tournament winner received the Steve Davis trophy. The breakdown of prize money for the event, an increase of £123,400 from the previous event, is shown below: * 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

Qualifying rounds

Round 1

The first round took place from 12 to 13 September as the best of 7 . On the first day of the tournament,

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beat Farakh Ajaib 42 with a high break of 77, and

Oliver Lines Oliver Lines (born 16 June 1995) is an English professional snooker player who practices at Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. He is the son of former professional snooker player Peter Lines. Career Amateur Lines switched sports from football ...

defeated

Rory Thor Thor Chuan Leong (; born 24 March 1988), better known on the main tour as Rory Thor, is a Malaysian professional snooker player. Career Thor, based in Penang, Malaysia represented his country at the 2006 & 2010 Asian Games and in the 201 ...

43. Liam Pullen firstyear tour player Antoni Kowalski, and fellow rookie Artemijs Žižins defeated

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42.

Mink Nutcharut Nutcharut Wongharuthai (, ; born 7 November 1999), better known as Mink Nutcharut, is a Thai snooker player who competes on both the professional World Snooker Tour and the World Women's Snooker Tour. She is the only woman known to have made a ...

faced

Reanne Evans Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player and regular pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. Widely recognised as the most successful female player in the sport's history, she has won the World Women's Sno ...

, the first time a match on the professional tour had taken place between two women, other than in matches played in

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tournaments. Nutcharut defeated Evans 42.

Round 2

The second round took place on 13, 14 and 16 September as the best of 7 frames. Fan Zhengyi made the first

of his career in the final frame of his 42 win over Liam Pullen. Zak Surety defeated Elliot Slessor 41, and Aaron Hill beat

Lei Peifan Lei Peifan (; born 31 May 2003) is a Chinese professional snooker player. While ranked 84th in the world, he won his first ranking event in December 2024, the 2024 Scottish Open, by defeating Wu Yize 95 in the final. Career In May 2019, Lei ...

42. Artemijs Žižins beat

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beat Jordan Brown, and Ishpreet Singh Chadha beat

Graeme Dott Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship ...

, all by the same score of 42. David Grace whitewashed

Marco Fu Marco Fu Ka-chun (; born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian Goldfie ...

, and

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player. He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...

beat Oliver Sykes 41. Bulcsú Révész beat

Yuan Sijun Yuan Sijun (; born 29 May 2000) is a Chinese professional snooker player. Career Yuan started to play snooker at the age of 10 and played as a wildcard in many professional tournaments between ages of 13 and 16. Yuan first drew attention in 201 ...

42, and

Ricky Walden Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester. Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...

whitewashed Mink Nutcharut.

Final rounds

Last 64

The last 64 matches took place on 16 and 17 September as the best of 7 frames.

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whitewashed Ian Burns.

defeated Liu Hongyu 43, and Zak Surety whitewashed

Noppon Saengkham Noppon Saengkham (; born 15 July 1992) is a Thai professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 2010, he has reached one ranking final (the 2023 Scottish Open) in which he finished as runner-up to Gary Wilson. Career Early years I ...

Ben Woollaston Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 3, third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. W ...

beat Mark Williams 41, and

defeated Long Zehuang 43.

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defeated

42, and

beat

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41.

Last 32

The last 32 matches took place on 18 September as the best of 7 frames. John Higgins beat David Gilbert 41,

Kyren Wilson Kyren James Wilson (; born 23 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Kettering. He has won 10 ranking titles. Wilson made his professional tour debut in the 2010–11 snooker season, 2010–11 season after finishing fif ...

defeated

Anthony McGill Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus. McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He ...

41, and Judd Trump beat

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also by 41.

beat

Shaun Murphy Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...

41, Mark Allen defeated

Lyu Haotian Lyu Haotian (; born 29 November 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player, notable for being one of the youngest snooker players to have played in professional tournaments, aged only 14. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2012 Internatio ...

42, He Guoqiang beat

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41, and Ishpreet Singh Chadha beat Hossein Vafaei 42.

Last 16

The last 16 matches took place on 19 September as the best of 7 frames. Ishpreet Singh Chadha beat He Guoqiang 43,

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defeated

Si Jiahui Si Jiahui ( ; born 11 July 2002) is a Chinese professional snooker player. After training at the Wiraka Billiard Academy in Foshan, he moved to the United Kingdom aged 16 and earned a two-year tour card through the 2019 Q School for the 2019 ...

43, Judd Trump beat Fan Zhengyi 42, and Wu Yize beat Ben Woollaston 42. In the evening John Higgins made his 1,000th career

in the match against Mark Allen. Allen went on to win the match 43. Neil Robertson beat

Ross Muir Ross Muir (born 6 October 1995 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2013 after graduating from event two of Q School, defeating David Morris 4–0 in the final round. Career Junior career Muir ha ...

41,

Chris Wakelin Chris Wakelin (born 16 March 1992) is an English professional snooker player from Rugby, Warwickshire. He turned professional in 2013 and won his first ranking title at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out. Career Early career Wakelin started playing s ...

beat Pang Junxu 43, and

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defeated Kyren Wilson 42.

Quarter finals

The quarter-finals took place on 20 September as the best of 9 frames. In the afternoon session Judd Trump played Wu Yize, and Mark Allen played Chris Wakelin. In the evening session Mark Selby played Ishpreet Singh Chadha and Neil Robertson played Barry Hawkins. Wu defeated Trump 53, and Wakelin beat Allen 52. Robertson beat Hawkins 51, and Chadha defeated Selby 54.

Semi finals

The semi-finals took place on 21 September as the best of 11 frames. In the afternoon session Wu Yize played Ishpreet Singh Chadha. In the evening session Chris Wakelin played Neil Robertson. Wu whitewashed Chadha, and Robertson beat Wakelin 61.

Final

The final took place on 22 September as the best of 17 frames, played over two between Wu Yize and Neil Robertson. At the end of the afternoon session Robertson led Wu 71. Robertson went on to win the match 97.

Final rounds

The draw for the final rounds is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the players'

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, and players in bold denote match winners.

Top half

Bottom half

Final

Qualifying rounds

The draw for the early rounds is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the players'

, an "a" indicates amateur players who were not on the main

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, and players in bold denote match winners.

:Note: n/s=no-show (did not arrive in time for the match); w/d=withdrawn; w/o=

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Century breaks

Final rounds centuries

A total of 46 century breaks were made in the final rounds of the tournament. * 140, 128

* 138, 104, 104

* 137, 115

* 137

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* 136

* 131 Aaron Hill * 127, 126, 123, 108, 100 Wu Yize * 127, 104 Jiang Jun * 126

* 125

* 124, 124, 115

* 124 David Gilbert * 123 Gary Wilson * 120 Jamie Clarke * 119, 106, 105 Hossein Vafaei * 116

* 114, 100 Xu Si * 114 Ishpreet Singh Chadha * 112 Pang Junxu * 110, 107

* 110

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* 109

* 108, 105

* 108

* 107

* 101 Michael Holt * 101

* 100

Qualifying rounds centuries

A total of 23 century breaks were made in the qualifying rounds of the tournament. * 147 Fan Zhengyi * 141, 104 Jiang Jun * 138 Artemijs Žižins * 137, 114 Louis Heathcote * 130 Jamie Jones * 128 Liu Hongyu * 128

* 126

* 125 Jordan Brown * 122 Aaron Hill * 121 Oliver Sykes * 113

* 112, 105 Xing Zihao * 112, 101 Gong Chenzhi * 107

* 102

Jackson Page Jackson Page (born 8 August 2001) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He was born in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, and is a former European U-21 champion and the former Under-18 World Snooker Champion and in 2017 also became the Under-18 Europ ...

* 101 Cheung Ka Wai * 100 Simon Blackwell * 100

Mitchell Mann Mitchell Dennis Mann (born 26 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player. Career Junior Mann first played snooker aged 9, after being forced to quit football after a diagnosis of Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome, a rare disease ...

Notes

References

External links

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