Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump set to play snooker on Christmas Day at Macau Snooker Masters

Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump will make up an eight-player invitational tournament when the Macau Snooker Masters begins in the resort city on Christmas Day. The former world champions flew to Asia to promote the event alongside Jack Lisowski, Marco Fu and recent Crucible semi-finalist Si Jiahui on June 28.

Ad Ding Junhui, Kyren Wilson and Mark Williams have also been invited to appear with the winner receiving £150,000, according to local media reports. Snooker'Everything was a pint of blood' – O'Donnell vows to ditch go-slow tactics after winning return8 HOURS AGO The five-day event is due to begin on December 25 at the five-star Wynn Palace hotel in Cotai, Macua, three days after the German Masters qualifiers are due to finish on December 22 in Sheffield.

Williams reached the final of the 2018 Macau Masters which was won 3-2 by Barry Hawkins, but the competition on the south coast of China is not part of the official World Snooker Tour calendar. O'Sullivan had revealed plans to focus on Asia after his 13-10 loss to Luca Brecel in the World Championship quarter-finals in April.

“I can’t do it all. Before I used to say, ‘I won’t travel, I’ll stay in the UK’, which was sweet, but now I think at this stage of my career, obviously Asia’s a big place to play, bigger tournaments, so I’ll do them and miss the UK ones," he said.