UK Championship snooker draw 2024: Ronnie O’Sullivan and Kyren Wilson handed tough tests

The UK Championship is set to reach crunch time this weekend as the draw pulled out some fascinating match-ups.

Qualifying comes to an end on Thursday evening in Leicester, where 16 players will have earned the right to join the world’s top 16 at the the Barbican in York. Fans will be treated to a repeat of the 2013 World Championship final as defending UK champion Ronnie O’Sullivan goes head-to head with Barry Hawkins. World champion Kyren Wilson, meanwhile, is looking to win the prestigious event for the first time and has been drawn against Stephen Maguire. World number one Judd Trump will play either Neil Robertson or Matthew Stevens as he searches for his second UK title.

An all-Chinese match up between Si Jiahui and Wu Yize is set to entertain as Mark Selby was drawn against Jack Lisowski. But the main event gets underway in some style on with the clash between the Rocket and the Hawk.

Record Sport has all the details.

UK Championship Draw - following round

The first players to come through qualifying were Stuart Bingham and Jackson Page on Wednesday afternoon after comfortable wins over Jimmy Robertson and Hossein Vafaei respectively. This year’s World Championship runner-up Jak Jones joined them, with Stephen Maguire the last to come through on Wednesday afternoon thanks to a dramatic 6-5 win over Elliot Slessor.

The BBC and Eurosport/Discovery+ will be showing the tournament live. The schedules are available here for BBC and Eurosport.

Winner: £250,000
Runner-up: £100,000
Semi-final: £50,000
Quarter-final: £25,000
Last 16: £15,000
Last 32: £10,000.