2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters Information: Draw, results, format, prize money, schedule, how to watch

The third ranking event of the 2024/25 World Snooker Tour season, this new tournament is the sport's biggest-ever event to be held outside of the UK and has been promoted by organisers as snooker's 'fourth major'.

Carrying a huge total prize fund of £2.3 million - just short of the World Snooker Championship's overall money pot - the champion will receive the same amount that Kyren Wilson did at the Crucible a few months ago with a £500,000 reward.

All 144 contestants in the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters will play at the main venue in Riyadh. This is unlike other big-field events on the professional tour where there are ‘qualifiers’ held at a different venue and sometimes in a different country. As well as the professional players in the draw, there are several Q School top up amateurs and 17 wildcards from the Middle East.

The competition will feature a tiered draw, meaning players enter the tournament in different rounds depending on their world ranking from before the recent Xi'an Grand Prix. In summary, the lowest ranked players and amateurs will start in round one, whilst the top 16 don't come in until round five (last 32). In total, there are nine rounds with a round played and completed each day.

All of snooker’s biggest names are set for Riyadh, including seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, current world champion Kyren Wilson, and world number one Judd Trump. The world’s current top seven ranked players are all in contention of leaving the Middle East as the world number one.

Whilst this will be Saudi Arabia’s first professional ranking event, ranked competition in the Middle East region is not a new thing as both the Dubai Classic and Bahrain Championship have been staged in the area before. To learn more about cuesports heritage in the Middle East, please read our special feature here.

A total of 30 different nations/areas are set to represented in the competition.

Information on how to follow the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters is below:

2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters: Draw and results

Round One (Last 144)

Rory Thor 4-0 Omar Alajlani

Baipat Siripaporn 3-4 Mohamed Elkhayat

Chris Totten 4-2 Haris Tahir

Michael Holt 4-0 Ahmad Abul

Mink Nutcharut 4-1 Kusai Hamed

Reanne Evans 0-4 Simon Blackwell

Artemijs Zizins w/o Kok Leong Lim

Robbie McGuigan 4-3 Abdulraouf Saigh

Liam Graham 4-0 Ali Hussain Ali

Oliver Lines 4-0 Faisal Bahashwan

Ka Wai Cheung 4-1 Joshua Thomond

Lei Peifan 4-2 Bai Yulu

Allan Taylor 4-2 Adeel Aqdus

Farakh Ajaib 4-0 Haitham Al Mahri

Julien Leclercq 4-2 Dylan Emery

Jimmy White 4-2 Mohamed Shehab

Andrew Pagett 4-2 Wang Yuchen

Huang Jiahao 4-0 Ahmed Elsayed

Ben Mertens 4-0 Abduallah Alotayyani

Antoni Kowalski 4-1 Habib Subah

Gong Chenzhi 4-0 Ali Jalil Ali

Mitchell Mann 3-4 Paul Deaville

Bulcsu Revesz 4-2 Iulian Boiko

Dean Young 4-0 Saleh Alamoudi

Mostafa Dorgham 1-4 Jonas Luz

Haydon Pinhey 4-0 Ayman Alamri

Manasawin Phetmalaikul 0-4 Amir Sarkhosh

Zak Surety 4-0 Ali Alobaidli

Duane Jones 4-1 Khalid Alkamali

Liam Davies 4-3 Ken Doherty

Kreishh Gurbaxani 0-4 Sunny Akani

Stan Moody 4-0 Ziyad Alqabbani

Round Two (Last 112)

Thor 4-1 Hammad Miah

Elkhayat 2-4 Jimmy Robertson

Totten 0-4 Ashley Carty

Holt 2-4 Liu Hongyu

Nutcharut 2-4 Anthony Hamilton

Blackwell 2-4 Xing Zihao

Zizins 4-3 Xu Si

McGuigan 4-3 Ma Hailong

Graham 1-4 Ishpeet Singh Chadha

Lines 2-4 Ben Woollaston

Ka 2-4 Louis Heathcote

Lei 4-3 Jamie Clarke

Taylor 4-2 Aaron Hill

Ajaib 2-4 Stuart Carrington

Leclercq 3-4 Graeme Dott

White 4-1 Andrew Higginson

Pagett 4-3 Alexander Ursenbacher

Huang 0-4 Martin O'Donnell

Mertens 4-0 Long Zehuang

Kowalski 4-0 He Guoqiang

Gong 4-2 David Grace

Deaville 4-0 Ian Burns

Revesz 4-3 Mark Davis

Young 3-4 Alfie Burden

Luz 1-4 Jiang Jun

Pinhey 4-2 David Lilley

Sarkhosh 4-3 Ross Muir

Surety 3-4 Sanderson Lam

D. Jones 4-2 Daniel Wells

Davies 0-4 Marco Fu

Akani 2-4 Tian Pengfei

Moody 4-1 Liam Pullen

Round Three (Last 80)

1) Thor 4-3 Robert Milkins

2) J. Robertson 4-3 Fan Zhengyi

3) Carty 4-1 Anthony McGill

4) Liu 4-1 Ricky Walden

5) Hamilton 4-2 Jamie Jones

6) Xing 2-4 Stuart Bingham

7) Zizins 1-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

8) McGuigan 2-4 Chris Wakelin

9) Chadha 1-4 Hossein Vafaei

10) Woollaston 4-0 Joe Perry

11) Heathcote 3-4 Joe O'Connor

12) Lei 4-3 Robbie Williams

13) Taylor 3-4 Matthew Selt

14) Carrington 3-4 Pang Junxu

15) Dott w/o Sam Craigie

16) White 2-4 Si Jiahui

17) Pagett 3-4 Jack Lisowski

18) O'Donnell 4-3 Matthew Stevens

19) Mertens 0-4 Stephen Maguire

20) Kowalski 0-4 Wu Yize

21) Gong 4-2 Jackson Page

22) Deaville 1-4 Neil Robertson

23) Revesz 3-4 Jordan Brown

24) Burden 0-4 David Gilbert

25) Jiang 2-4 Zhou Yuelong

26) Pinhey 2-4 Elliot Slessor

27) Sarkhosh 1-4 Noppon Saengkham

28) Lam 1-4 Yuan Sijun

29) D. Jones 3-4 Xiao Guodong

30) Fu 3-4 Lyu Haotian

31) Tian 2-4 Scott Donaldson

32) Moody 2-4 Ryan Day

Round Four (Last 48)

A) Rory Thor 0-5 Jimmy Robertson

B) Ashley Carty 2-5 Liu Hongyu

C) Anthony Hamilton 3-5 Stuart Bingham

D) Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-4 Chris Wakelin

E) Hossein Vafaei 3-5 Ben Woollaston

F) Joe O’Connor 2-5 Lei Peifan

G) Matthew Selt 3-5 Pang Junxu

H) Graeme Dott 0-5 Si Jiahui

I) Jack Lisowski 5-2 Martin O’Donnell

J) Stephen Maguire 4-5 Wu Yize

K) Gong Chenzhi 1-5 Neil Robertson

L) Jordan Brown 3-5 David Gilbert

M) Zhou Yuleong 2-5 Elliot Slessor

N) Noppon Saengkham 4-5 Yuan Sijun

O) Xiao Guodong 5-2 Lyu Haotian

P) Scott Donaldson 5-2 Ryan Day

Round Five (Last 32)

Kyren Wilson 5-3 Liu Hongyu

John Higgins 2-5 Jimmy Robertson

Mark Williams 5-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

Ding Junhui 4-5 Stuart Bingham

Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-1 Lei Peifan

Zhang Anda 5-0 Ben Woollaston

Tom Ford 2-5 Si Jiahui

Luca Brecel 2-5 Pang Junxu

Judd Trump 5-4 Wu Yize

Jak Jones 3-5 Jack Lisowski

Gary Wilson 5-2 David Gilbert

Mark Selby 3-5 Neil Robertson

Shaun Murphy 5-2 Yuan Sijun

Ali Carter 3-5 Elliot Slessor

Barry Hawkins 1-5 Scott Donaldson

Mark Allen 1-5 Xiao Guodong

Round Six (Last 16)

K. Wilson 4-6 J. Robertson

Williams 6-2 Bingham

O’Sullivan 6-5 Zhang

Si 6-5 Pang

Trump 6-1 Lisowski

G. Wilson 1-6 N. Robertson

Murphy 6-3 Slessor

Donaldson 5-6 Xiao

Quarter-Finals

J. Robertson 0-6 Williams

O’Sullivan 4-6 Si

Trump 6-3 N. Robertson

Murphy 6-2 Xiao

Semi-Finals

Williams 6-3 Si

Trump 6-5 Murphy

Final

Williams 9-10 Trump

CHAMPION: JUDD TRUMP

Daily schedule and format for the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters:

• Friday 30th August: Round One (last 144) - best of 7 frames
• Saturday 31st August: Round Two (last 112) - best of 7 frames
• Sunday 1st September: Round Three (last 80) - best of 7 frames
• Monday 2nd September: Round Four (last 48) - best of 9 frames
• Tuesday 3rd September: Round Five (last 32) - best of 9 frames
• Wednesday 4th September: Round Six (last 16) - best of 11 frames
• Thursday 5th September: Quarter-finals - best of 11 frames
• Friday 6th September: Semi-finals - best of 11 frames
• Saturday 7th September: Final - best of 19 frames (two sessions)

Eight tables will be in operation at the arena from rounds one to five.

Four tables will be used for round six, two tables for the quarter-finals and one table from the semi-finals.

What is the prize money for the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters?

Winner: £500,000

Runner-up: £200,000

Semi-finals: £100,000

Quarter-finals: £50,000

Last 16: £30,000

Last 32: £20,000

Last 48: £11,000

Last 80: £7,000

Last 112: £4,000

Last 144: £2,000

147 Break: £50,000*

The Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters is one of four events which form part of a special 147 bonus running throughout the season for players who make two maximum 147 breaks in those particular events. This carries an overall prize fund of £441,000. For further information, please visit here.

Noppon Saengkham made a maximum 147 break in round three.

How to watch the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters

For fans in the United Kingdom, live coverage throughout the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters is televised on Eurosport. The online Discovery+ platform is also showing the event with access to four tables.

Europe (including UK and Ireland): Eurosport and Discovery+

Saudi Arabia and MENA region: SSC, Shahid

China: Huya.com, CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel, CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin

Hong Kong China: Now TV

Malaysia and Brunei: Astro

Philippines: Tap

Taiwan: Sportcast

Thailand: True Sport

All other territories: matchroom.live