2024 International Championship Snooker: Wednesday 2nd October Preview, Matches, Order of Play
The final batch of round one matches in the 2024 International Championship to be held in Sheffield will be completed on Wednesday across two sessions.
Ranking event winners Matthew Stevens, Ricky Walden, Ryan Day and David Gilbert are all set for action during the morning shift at Ponds Forge. In-form Gilbert - who is challenging to re-enter the world’s top 16 - faces current World Women’s Snooker Champion Bai Yulu.
World number three Mark Allen - winner of the International Championship in 2018 - begins his campaign in the £825,000 ranking event against Farakh Ajaib in the afternoon session.
A semi-finalist at the recent British Open, Oliver Lines is back on the baize to play Jackson Page, while Jack Lisowski has an intriguing tie against teenage rookie Bulcsu Revesz from Hungary. Joe Perry and Matthew Selt also star.
The winners of these matches go through to the last 64 and the televised stages of the tournament which takes place in Nanjing, China between November 3-10.
For full details on the 2024 International Championship including the draw, results, prize money, schedule and how to watch, please visit our tournament information centre here.
2024 International Championship Snooker, Wednesday 2nd October match schedule:
09:30BST
- Yuan Sijun v Ian Burns
- Matthew Stevens v Huang Jiahao
- Ricky Walden v Xing Zihao
- He Guoqiang v Antoni Kowalski
- Ryan Day v Ma Hailong
- Liu Hongyu v Rory Thor
- David Gilbert v Bai Yulu
14:30BST
- Jack Lisowski v Bulcsu Revesz
- Daniel Wells v Ross Muir
- Jackson Page v Oliver Lines
- Joe Perry v Jonas Luz
- Mark Allen v Farakh Ajaib
- Matthew Selt v Andrew Higginson
(All round one matches are the best of 11 frames)