The draw and format is out now for the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship, to run from December 18th to 20th at Boulevard City in Riyadh.
For the match schedule click here.
The top ten players in the Johnstone's Paint World Rankings have qualified for the invitation event in Saudi Arabia.
Seeds nine and ten, Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, will face local wild cards in the first round on the opening afternoon. Then the same evening, the winners of those two matches will face seeds seven and eight, Luca Brecel and Shaun Murphy.
All four quarter-finals will take place on Thursday 19th, starting with Mark Selby v Mark Allen, then Kyren Wilson will meet either Zhang, Brecel or a wild card. Judd Trump will be up against Mark Williams in a repeat of the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters final, then defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan will play either Ding, Murphy or a wild card. The semi-finals and final will take place on Friday 20th.
All matches are best of seven frames, until the final which is best of nine.
