The venue stage of the European Masters doesn’t get underway until 22 August, but to reach Nuremberg most players must first come through qualifying this week in Leicester.
Just the top eight players in the world rankings have seen their games heldover to Germany, with everyone else having to win a match back in England this week to make it there.
That means that big names in the top 16 have to go to Leicester this week, including the likes of Mark Williams, John Higgins and Jack Lisowski.
Higgins has a tough opener against Martin Gould, Williams faces Zhang Anda and Lisowski takes on Sam Craigie, who performed well at the recent Championship League.
Recent World Championship semi-finalist Si Jiahui is in action against another talented youngster in Belgium’s Julien Leclercq, while a Crucible quarter-finalist this year, Anthony McGill, takes on Dominic Dale.
Women’s world champion Baipat Siripaporn will look to get her first win on the professioanl tour when she takes on James Cahill, while 12-times women’s champ Reanne Evans looks to continue the solid start to the campaign at the Championship League when she faces Jenson Kendrick.
The action gets underway on Tuesday morning with a battle of the generations between 61-year-old Jimmy White and 21-year-old Irishman Aaron Hill.
European Masters Qualifiers Draw and Schedule
Tuesday 25 July
10am
Aaron Hill vs Jimmy White
Yuan Sijun vs Jamie Jones
Asjad Iqbal vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Sydney Wilson vs Xiao Guodong
2.30pm
Liam Graham vs Duane Jones
Jak Jones vs Michael White
Noppon Saengkham vs Ian Burns
Ryan Day vs Zak Surety
7pm
John Higgins vs Martin Gould
Joe Perry vs Muhammad Asif
Oliver Brown vs Liam Pullen
Stan Moody vs Elliot Slessor
Wednesday 26 July
10am
Andrew Higginson vs Cao Yupeng
Zhou Yuelong vs Stuart Carrington
Andres Petrov vs Daniel Wells
Pang Junxu vs Mink Nutcharut
2.30pm
Si Jiahui vs Julien Leclercq
Robert Milkins vs Ben Woollaston
Matthew Stevens vs Iulian Boiko
Andrew Pagett vs Jiang Jun
7pm
Ken Doherty vs David Lilley
Anthony McGill vs Dominic Dale
Ricky Walden vs Lukas Kleckers
Martin O’Donnell vs Ashley Carty
Thursday 27 July
10am
He Guoqiang vs Ross Muir
Louis Heathcote vs Andy Lee
Ahmed Aly Elsayed vs Mark Davis
James Cahill vs Baipat Siripaporn
2.30pm
Allan Taylor vs Tian Pengfei
Reanne Evans vs Jenson Kendrick
Hammad Miah vs Liu Hongyu
Jimmy Robertson vs Himanshu Jain
7pm
Haydon Pinhey vs Alfie Burden
Jack Lisowski vs Sam Craigie
Gary Wilson vs Ben Mertens
Sanderson Lam vs Mark Joyce
Friday 28 July
10am
Ma Hailong vs Jordan Brown
Chris Wakelin vs Thor Chuan Leong
Tom Ford vs Victor Sarkis
Long Zehuang vs Ashley Hugill
2.30pm
Mark Williams vs Zhang Anda
Barry Hawkins vs Sean O’Sullivan
Robbie Williams vs John Astley
Ryan Thomerson vs Ishpreet Singh
7pm
David Gilbert vs Oliver Lines
Ali Carter vs Alfie Davies
Matthew Selt vs Anthony Hamilton
David Grace vs Scott Donaldson
Saturday 29 July
10am
Liam Highfield vs Dylan Emery
Xu Si vs Alexander Ursenbacher
Joe O’Connor vs Rebecca Kenna
Xing Zihao vs Peng Yisong
2.30pm
Hossein Vafaei vs Rod Lawler
Fan Zhengyi vs Lyu Haotian
Stuart Bingham vs Jamie Clarke
Adam Duffy vs Marco Fu
Matches heldover to main venue starting on 22 August
Kyren Wilson vs Dean Young
Luca Brecel vs Jackson Page
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Andy Hicks
Mark Allen vs Anton Kazakov
Mark Selby vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Judd Trump vs Mohamed Ibrahim
Neil Robertson vs Wu Yize
Shaun Murphy vs Graeme Dott
How to watch the European Masters qualifiers
The qualifying stages from 25-29 July are available to watch in the UK on discovery+. How to watch elsewhere is available here.
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