By Phil Haigh
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Mark Selby beat John Higgins to win last year’s British Open final (Picture: Getty Images)
The British Open heads into the business end with a number of the biggest names in snooker battling it out to be crowned champion on Sunday.
The tournament is unique on the snooker calendar for using an FA Cup-style draw, meaning anyone can be drawn to face anyone in every round.
That throws up some heavyweight contests early on, as we saw with the likes of Mark Williams vs Si Jiahui and Kyren Wilson vs Chris Wakelin in the opening round.
There have been shocks early on, with Wilson falling to the increasingly impressive teenager Stan Moody the most notable ahead of the last 16.
The matches are short sprints in Cheltenham, with every round best of seven frames until the quarter-finals.
In the quarters the games extend to best of nines, then best of 11 in the semi-finals, before a best of 19 final on Sunday over two sessions.
Mark Selby is the defending champion after he beat John Higgins in last year’s final.
Stan Moody has continued his impressive form at the British Open (Picture: Getty Images)
When is the British Open?
The event runs from September 22-28 at The Centaur in Cheltenham.
How to watch the British Open on TV
The tournament is being shown live in the UK on ITV4, with streaming of Table Two on ITVX.
For details of how to watch elsewhere, click here.
British Open draw and schedule
Thursday September 25
Round Three
Cheung Ka Wai vs Lei Peifan
Mark Williams vs Mark Allen
Iulian Boiko vs Ali Carter
Joe O’Connor vs Mark Selby
Judd Trump vs Martin O’Donnell
Shaun Murphy vs Neil Robertson
Ben Mertens vs Robbie McGuigan
Zhang Anda vs Xiao Guodong
Judd Trump is hoping to win the British Open for the first time (Picture: Getty Images)
Mitchell Mann vs Barry Hawkins
Chang Bingyu vs O’Connor/Selby
Cheung/Lei vs Williams/Allen
Liam Davis vs Louis Heathcote
John Higgins vs Mertens/McGuigan
Murphy/Robertson vs Trump/O’Donnell
Stan Moody vs Boiko/Carter
Zhang/Xiao vs Anthony McGill
British Open prize money
Winner: £100,000
Runner-up: £45,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £12,000
Last 16: £9,000
Last 32: £6,000
Last 64: £3,000
Highest break: £5,000
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British Open results
Round One held over
Pang Junxu 0-4 Wu Yize
John Higgins 4-3 Mark Davis
Mark Selby 4-1 David Grace
Barry Hawkins 4-0 Daniel Wells
Neil Robertson 4-0 Alfie Davies
Ali Carter 4-2 Patrick Whelan
Zhang Anda 4-3 Duane Jones
Zhao Xintong 4-3 Ashley Hugill
Mark Williams 4-2 Si Jiahui
Daniel Womersley 2-4 Sanderson Lam
Shaun Murphy 4-1 Ross Muir
Judd Trump 4-0 Aaron Hill
Gary Wilson 4-1 Hossein Vafaei
Xiao Guodong 4-1 Haydon Pinhey
Kyren Wilson 4-1 Chris Wakelin
Mark Allen 4-0 Jiang Jun
Zak Surety 4-0 Ashley Carty
Chang Bingyu 4-1 Long Zehuang
He Guoqiang 3-4 Robbie McGuigan
Bai Yulu 3-4 Zhang Anda
Yuan Sijun 0-4 Barry Hawkins
Ben Woollaston v Noppon Saengkham
Haris Tahir 2-4 Louis Heathcote
Mark Williams v Sanderson Lam
Jack Lisowski 3-4 John Higgins
Amir Sarkhosh 0-4 Jak Jones
Iulian Boiko 4-2 Sam Craigie
Jackson Page 1-4 Oliver Lines
Stuart Bingham 1-4 Zhao Xintong
Ukraine’s Iulian Boiko has picked up some impressive wins so far this season (Picture: Getty Images)
Ian Burns 4-3 Marco Fu
Stan Moody 4-2 Kyren Wilson
Umut Dikme 2-4 Xiao Guodong
Ryan Davies 2-4 Liam Davies
Robert Milkins 2-4 Antoni Kowalski
Xu Si 1-4 Neil Robertson
Anthony McGill 4-1 Gary Wilson
Ben Mertens 4-0 Reanne Evans
Mark Allen 4-1 Bulcsu Revesz
Mitchell Mann 4-3 Gao Yang
David Lilley 4-3 Xu Yichen
Judd Trump 4-1 Leone Crowley
Mark Selby 4-3 Liu Hongyu
Cheung Ka Wai 4-3 Matthew Stevens
Lei Peifan 4-1 Matt Selt
Shaun Murphy 4-1 Scott Donaldson
Joe O’Connor 4-1 Allan Taylor
Ali Carter 4-3 Wu Yize
Martin O’Donnell 4-2 Sunny Akani
Round Three
John Higgins 4-2 Zhao Xintong
Mitchell Mann 4-2 Antoni Kowalski
Anthony McGill 4-1 Oliver Lines
Liam Davies 4-2 David Lilley
Louis Heathcote 4-0 Zak Surety
Barry Hawkins 4-3 Jak Jones
Stan Moody 4-2 Ian Burns
Chang Bingyu 4-3 Noppon Saengkham
