The qualifying round will run from August 23-27 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, followed by the final stages at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast from October 9-17 .
The defending champion is Judd Trump who defeated Ronnie O’Sullivan for the third consecutive time in the final with a win of 9-7 over O’Sullivan and with a cheque for £70,000 everyone will be anxious to commence to the next round.
The Qualifiers started this morning at 9 am and here is a break down on todays matches with the best of 7 frames
| Scott Donaldson | 3 | v | 4 | Lu Ning |
| Michael Judge | 2 | v | 4 | Jamie O’Neill |
| Gerard Greene | 2 | v | 4 | Sunny Akani |
| James Cahill | 4 | v | 2 | Chang Bingyu |
| Zhang Anda | 2 | v | 4 | Fergal O’Brien |
| Zhao Xintong | 3 | v | 4 | Matthew Stevens |
| Alexander Ursenbacher | 2 | v | 4 | Peter Devlin |
| Robbie Williams | 3 | v | 4 | Cao Yupeng |
| Ryan Day | 4 | v | 1 | Igor Figueiredo |
| Dean Young | 1 | v | 4 | Hammad Miah |
It all commences again tomorrow at 9am with the next set of players
