Qualifying for the World Championship starts on Friday. 96 players will battle it out to join the 16 automatic qualifiers at the Crucible in April.
As usual, qualifying starts with the non-Tour professionals who remain members of the WPBSA. Among those taking part this year is the "Silver Fox" David Taylor, who has entered at the age of 66. He was in the top 16 for 10 years, reaching a peak of #7 in the rankings. He reached 3 ranking finals and the semi-finals of the World Championship.
Among those who also have Crucible experience are Les Dodd and Barry West. The line-up also includes respected coaches Del Smith and Nic Barrow.
4 non-Tour will join the current Tour players, when the matches go up to best-of-19.
1st qualifying round:
Les Dodd v Philip Minchin
Paul Wykes v David Taylor
David Singh v Colin Mitchell
Ali Bassiri v Neil Selman
Barry West v Christopher Flight
Del Smith v Phil Seaton
Bill Oliver v Nic Barrow
Stephen Ormerod v Paul Cavney
Byes to 3rd qualifying round:
James Wattana
Michael White
Jordan Brown
Brendan O'Donoghue
4th qualifying round:
Lee Page v Wattana/qualifier
Matt Selt v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Stephen Rowlings v Sam Baird
Lee Spick v Joe Jogia
Noppadol Sangnil v M White/qualifier
Bjorn Haneveer v Brown/qualifier
Patrick Wallace v Lee Boyle
Li Hang v David Hogan
Xiao Guodong v Tony Drago
Chris Norbury v Mei Xiwen
Craig Steadman v Anda Zhang
Matthew Couch v O'Donoghue/qualifier
Ben Woollaston v Andrew Norman
Atthasit Mahitthi v Jimmy Robertson
Simon Bedford v Ian Preece
Daniel Wells v David Gray
Byes to 5th qualifying round:
Peter Lines
Barry Pinches
Joe Delaney
Paul Davies
Rod Lawler
David Gilbert
John Parrott
Jin Long
David Roe
Mark Joyce
Jimmy White
Tom Ford
Liu Song
David Morris
Robert Milkins
Andy Hicks
Byes to 6th qualifying round:
Adrian Gunnell
Alan McManus
Dominic Dale
Martin Gould
Ken Doherty
Anthony Hamilton
Marcus Campbell
Mark Davis
Mike Dunn
Jimmy Michie
Ian McCulloch
Jamie Burnett
Andrew Higginson
Rory McLeod
Stuart Pettman
Michael Judge
Byes to 7th qualifying round:
Matthew Stevens
Dave Harold
Steve Davis
Fergal O'Brien
Liang Wenbo
Nigel Bond
Joe Swail
Judd Trump
Barry Hawkins
Michael Holt
Ricky Walden
Gerard Greene
Stuart Bingham
Jamie Cope
Stephen Lee
Graeme Dott
Automatic qualifiers for the World Championship:
John Higgins
Mark King
Neil Robertson
Marco Fu
Ali Carter
Joe Perry
Ding Junhui
Shaun Murphy
Stephen Maguire
Peter Ebdon
Mark Allen
Ryan Day
Mark Selby
Stephen Hendry
Mark Williams
Ronnie O'Sullivan