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Ronnie O'Sullivan has been drawn to face old foe Ding Junhui in the last 16 of the Six Red World Championship in Thailand. The world champion will meet Ding at 7am (GMT) on Thursday LIVE on Eurosport and discovery+ with the winner facing Stuart Bingham or Ricky Walden in the quarter-finals later in the morning at the Thammasat University Convention Centre in Pathum Thani. Ad O'Sullivan is making his debut at the Bangkok invitational event, but Ding has pedigree in the shorter format having won the title in 2016 with an 8-7 win over Bingham, before losing 8-4 to Kyren Wilson in 2018.

SnookerOpinion: Time running out for 'big four' to make sluggish season a special one06/03/2023 AT 09:33 O'Sullivan coasted through to the knockout round as Group H winner courtesy of victories against Jimmy Robertson (5-3), Stan Moody (5-2) and James Wattana (5-2). Ding – who whitewashed O'Sullivan 6-0 in their last meeting at the UK Championship quarter-finals in November – enjoyed 5-2 wins against defending champion Stephen Maguire and former women's world champion Mink Nutcharut respectively, before losing 5-0 to Group A winner Zhang Anda. Former world No.

3 Wattana will return to the elite level in front of his home crowd against Zhang at 4am (GMT) after qualifying as Group H runner-up, but has praised O'Sullivan for travelling to Thailand. “It is unbelievable, because I haven’t played with the top players for three or four years," said Wattana on WST. «This is the big arena and big event for Thai people.

Even though it isn’t ranking, we feel this is the best event so far for the Thai people. “You never get fed up or bored of lifting any trophy in front of your home crowd. It is anybody’s dream.