The main stages of the Scottish Open do not get going until December, but the qualifiers get underway this week in the not-so-Scottish location of Leicester.
The world’s top 16 head straight to the venue in Edinburgh on 11 December for their opening round matches, but everyone else must come through a qualifier to earn the trip to Scotland.
The qualifiers are all shown live on Discovery+ in the UK and run from 30 October to 2 November, the main stages, shown on Eurosport and Discovery+ are from 11-17 December.
Last year’s Scottish Open produced a surprise final between Gary Wilson and Joe O’Connor, with Wilson emerging as the champion to win his first ranking title.
It has not been a good season so far for underdogs, with Judd Trump winning the last three ranking events, while the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy and Barry Hawkins have also won titles, but there could be another surprise sprung in Scotland in December.
Scottish Open Qualifiers Draw and Schedule
Monday 30 October
10am
Fan Zhengyi vs Sanderson Lam
Cao Yupeng vs David Lilley
Xiao Guodong vs Jamie Clarke
1pm
Zhou Yuelong vs Anthony Hamilton
Si Jiahui vs Tian Pengfei
Noppon Saengkham vs Rebecca Kenna
4pm
Chris Wakelin vs Mark Joyce
Oliver Lines vs John Astley
Ian Burns vs Alfie Burden
7pm
Ashley Carty vs Andres Petrov
Anthony McGill vs Ryan Thomerson
Matt Selt vs Dylan Emery
Tuesday 31 October
10am
Ma Hailong vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ben Woollaston vs M Phetmalaikul
Mink Nutcharut vs Xu Si
1pm
David Gilbert vs Jak Jones
Duane Jones vs Jimmy White
Liam Pullen vs Zak Surety
4pm
Ken Doherty vs Aaron Hill
Jackson Page vs Himanshu Jain
Martin O’Donnell vs Andrew Pagett
7pm
Jordan Brown vs Adam Duffy
Stuart Bingham vs Michael White
Stuart Carrington vs Lukas Kleckers
Wednesday 01 November
10am
Ryan Day vs Jiang Jun
Andy Hicks vs Zhang Anda
Joe Perry vs Lyu Haotian
1pm
Scott Donaldson vs Ashley Hugill
Ahmed Aly Elsayed vs Ben Mertens
Ricky Walden vs Hammad Miah
4pm
Rod Lawler vs Robbie Williams
Ross Muir vs Dominic Dale
Matthew Stevens vs Victor Sarkis
7pm
Joe O’Connor vs Andy Lee
Tom Ford vs Louis Heathcote
Anton Kazakov vs Jenson Kendrick
Thursday 02 November
10am
Yuan Sijun vs Muhammad Asif
Peng Yisong vs He Guoqiang
Wu Yize vs Alexander Ursenbacher
1pm
Rory Thor vs Graeme Dott
Baipat Siripaporn vs Julien Leclercq
James Cahill vs Stan Moody
4pm
Andrew Higginson vs Allan Taylor
Liam Highfield vs Dean Young
7pm
Fergal O’Brien vs Xing Zihao
Reanne Evans vs Martin Gould
First round matches held over to main arena
Monday 11 December
10am
Gary Wilson vs Elliot Slessor
Jimmy Robertson vs Amaan Iqbal
Mark Selby vs Sean O’Sullivan
Ding Junhui vs David Grace
1pm
Mark Williams vs Sam Craigie
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Liam Graham
Barry Hawkins vs Pang Junxu
Ali Carter vs Long Zehuang
3pm
Hossein Vafaei vs Daniel Wells
Jack Borwick vs Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Shaun Murphy vs Liu Hongyu
Luca Brecel vs Iulian Boiko
7pm
Kyren Wilson vs Mostafa Dorgham
Robert Milkins vs Mark Davis
Judd Trump vs Sydney Wilson
8pm
Mark Allen vs Jamie Jones
Jack Lisowski vs Mohamed Ibrahim
John Higgins vs Oliver Brown
Prize money
Winner: £80,000
Runner-up: £35,000
Semi-final: £17,500
Quarter-final: £11,000
Last 16: £7,500
Last 32: £4,500
Last 64: £3,000
Highest break: £5,000
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