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THE inaugural Saudi Arabia Masters will begin THIS WEEKEND with the biggest names in snooker fighting over huge prize money.

128 tour players will be joined by 16 wild cards selected by the Saudi Arabian Billard and Snooker Federation.

Ronnie O'Sullivan will be in action in Riyadh

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Ronnie O’Sullivan will be in action in RiyadhCredit: GETTY

The top 16 seeds will enter the competition in round five and face the eventual winners of the remaining 128 players.

A huge star-studded field will feature the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd Trump, Mark Allen and reigning world champion Kyren Wilson.

The world ranking event in Riyadh boasts a huge prize pool of £2,302,000 – only the World Championship possesses a bigger pot.

And despite O’Sullivan already tasting success in Saudi’s first-ever tournament – the Riyadh Season World Masters – the Rocket will be out to make amends for what happened at the Xi’an Grand Prix last week.

When is the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters?

  • The Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters begins on Friday, August 30.
  • The tournament will run until Saturday, September 7.
  • Green Halls, Riyadh, will host.

What TV channel is the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters on and can it be live streamed?

  • The Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters will be broadcast live on Eurosport.
  • Customers can live stream the event via the discovery+ app/website.
  • Alternatively, you can keep up to date with all the action by following SunSport’s live blog.

Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters schedule

Here is the full schedule for the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters:

August 30: Round 1

(Seeds 81-112 v seeds 113-144)

1. Rory Thor vs Omar Alajlani
2. Baipat Siripaporn vs Mohamed Elkhayat
3. Chris Totten vs Haris Tahir
4. Michael Holt vs Ahmad Abul
5. Mink Nutcharut vs Kusai Hamed
6. Reanne Evans vs Simon Blackwell
7. Artemijs Zizins vs Lim Kok Leong
8. Robbie McGuigan vs Abdulraouf Saigh

9. Liam Graham vs Ali Hussain Ali
10. Oliver Lines vs Faisal Bahashwan
11. Cheung Ka Wait vs Joshua Thomand
12. Lei Peifan vs Bai Yulu
13. Allan Taylor vs Adeel Aqdus
14. Farakh Ajaib vs Haitham Al Mahri
15. Julien Leclercq vs Dylan Emery
16. Jimmy White vs Mohamed Shehab

17. Andrew Pagett vs Wang Yuchen
18. Huang Jiahao vs Ahmed Elsayed
19. Ben Mertens vs Abdullah Alotayyani
20. Antoni Kowalski vs Habib Sabah
21. Gong Chenzhi vs Ali Jalil Ali
22. Mitchell Mann vs Paul Deaville
23. Bulcsú Révész vs Iulian Boiko
24. Dean Young vs Saleh Alamoudi

25. Mostafa Dorgham vs Jonas Luz
26. Haydon Pinhey vs Ayman Alamri
27. Manasawin Phetmalaikul vs Amir Sarkhosh
28. Zak Surety vs Ali Alobaidli
29. Duane Jones vs Khalid Alkamali
30. Liam Davies vs Ken Doherty
31. Kreishh Gurbaxani vs Sunny Akani
32. Stan Moody vs Ziyad Alqabbani

August 31: Round 2 – round one winners vs seeds 49-80

33. Hammad Miah vs Winner of match 1
34. Jimmy Robertson vs Winner of match 2
35. Ashley Carty vs Winner of match 3
36. Liu Hongyu vs Winner of match 4
37. Anthony Hamilton vs Winner of match 5
38. Xing Zihao vs Winner of match 6
39. Xu Si vs Winner of match 7
40. Ma Hailong vs Winner of match 8

41. Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Winner of match 9
42. Ben Woollaston vs Winner of match 10
43. Louis Heathcote vs Winner of match 11
44. Jamie Clarke vs Winner of match 12
45. Aaron Hill vs Winner of match 13
46. Stuart Carrington vs Winner of match 14
47. Graeme Dott vs Winner of match 15
48. Andrew Higginson vs Winner of match 16

49. Alexander Ursenbacher vs Winner of match 17
50. Martin O’Donnell vs Winner of match 18
51. Long Zehuang vs Winner of match 19
52. He Guoqiang vs winner of match 20
53. David Grace vs Winner of match 21
54. Ian Burns vs Winner of match 22
55. Mark Davis vs Winner of match 23
56. Alfie Burden vs Winner of match 24

57. Jiang Jun vs Winner of match 25
58. David Lilley vs Winner of match 26
59. Ross Muir vs Winner of match 27
60. Sanderson Lam vs Winner of match 28
61. Daniel Wells vs Winner of match 29
62. Marco Fu vs Winner of match 30
63. Tian Pengfei vs Winner of match 31
64. Liam Pullen vs Winner of match 32

September 1: Round 3 – round two winners vs seeds 17-48

65. Robert Milkins vs Winner of match 33
66. Fan Zhengyi vs Winner of match 34
67. Anthony McGill vs Winner of match 35
68. Ricky Walden vs Winner of match 36
69. Jamie Jones vs Winner of match 37
70. Stuart Bingham vs Winner of match 38
71. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Winner of match 39
72. Chris Wakelin vs Winner of match 40

73. Hossein Vafaei vs Winner of match 41
74. Joe Perry vs Winner of match 42
75. Joe O’Connor vs Winner of match 43
76. Robbie Williams vs Winner of match 44
77. Matthew Selt vs Winner of match 45
78. Pang Junxu vs Winner of match 46
79. Sam Craigie vs Winner of match 47
80. Si Jiahui vs Winner of match 48

81. Jack Lisowski vs Winner of match 49
82. Matthew Stevens vs Winner of match 50
83. Stephen Maguire vs Winner of match 51
84. Wu Yize vs Winner of match 52
85. Jackson Page vs Winner of match 53
86. Neil Robertson vs Winner of match 54
87. Jordan Brown vs Winner of match 55
88. David Gilbert vs Winner of match 56

89. Zhou Yuelong vs Winner of match 57
90. Elliot Slessor vs Winner of match 58
91. Noppon Saengkham vs Winner of match 59
92. Yuan Sijun vs winner of match 60
93. Xiao Guodong vs winner of match 61
94. Lyu Haotian vs Winner of match 62
95. Scott Donaldson vs Winner of match 63
96. Ryan Day vs Winner of match 64

September 2: Round 4 – round three winners play each other

97. Winner of match 65 vs winner of match 66
98. Winner of match 67 vs winner of match 68
99. Winner of match 69 vs winner of match 70
100. Winner of match 71 vs winner of match 72
101. Winner of match 73 vs winner of match 74
102. Winner of match 75 vs winner of match 76
103. Winner of match 77 vs winner of match 78
104. Winner of match 79 vs winner of match 80

105. Winner of match 81 vs winner of match 82
106. Winner of match 83 vs winner of match 84
107. Winner of match 85 vs winner of match 86
108. Winner of match 87 vs winner of match 88
109. Winner of match 89 vs winner of match 90
110. Winner of match 91 vs winner of match 92
111. Winner of match 93 vs winner of match 94
112. Winner of match 95 vs winner of match 96

September 3: Round 5 – round four winners vs seeds 1-16 in the last 32

Kyren Wilson vs Winner of match 97
John Higgins vs Winner of match 98
Mark Williams vs Winner of match 99
Ding Junhui vs Winner of match 100

Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Winner of match 101
Zhang Anda vs Winner of match 102
Tom Ford vs Winner of match 103
Luca Brecel vs Winner of match 104

Judd Trump vs Winner of match 105
Jak Jones vs Winner of match 106
Gary Wilson vs Winner of match 107
Mark Selby vs Winner of match 108

Shaun Murphy vs Winner of match 109
Ali Carter vs Winner of match 110
Barry Hawkins vs Winner of match 111
Mark Allen vs Winner of match 112

September 4: Last 16

September 5: Quarter-finals

September 6: Semi-finals

September 7: Final

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