The draw for the World Championship qualifiers was published today. It wasn't actually streamed as it has been in previous years. Given what the first match drawn was, I'll let you draw your own conclusions...
There are four rounds of qualifying with the 16 winners from the final round joining the top 16 ranked players at the Crucible next month.
Qualifying starts on the 5th of April.
(World rankings in brackets)
bold = past qualifier
red = past semi-finalist
silver = past runner-up
gold = past winner
Jimmy White (83) v
Stephen Hendry (127)
Xu Si (82) bye to Round 2
Zhou Yuelong (17) bye to Round 3
Zak Surety (114) v Fan Zhengyi (122)
Liam Highfield (49) bye to Round 2
Elliot Slessor (47) bye to Round 3
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Ken Doherty (97) v
Lee Walker (122)
Nigel Bond (65) bye to Round 2
Matthew Selt (32) bye to Round 3
Oliver Lines (99) v Dylan Emery (-)
Dominic Dale (64) bye to Round 2
Scott Donaldson (33) bye to Round 3
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Fraser Patrick (106) v
Leo Fernandez (-)
Joe O'Connor (56) bye to Round 2
Robert Milkins (40) bye to Round 3
Barry Pinches (90) v Jamie Wilson (118)
Jak Jones (73) bye to Round 2
Kurt Maflin (25) bye to Round 3
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Gao Yang (107) v Paul Davison (-)
Lyu Haotian (56) bye to Round 2
Noppon Saengkham (41) bye to Round 3
Sohail Vahedi (90) v Julien Leclercq (-)
Chang Bingyu (75) bye to Round 2
Tom Ford (24) bye to Round 3
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Andy Hicks (87) v Reanne Evans (-)
Eden Sharav (77) bye to Round 2
Graeme Dott (21) bye to Round 3
Billy Joe Castle (109) v Connor Benzey (-)
Tian Pengfei (52) bye to Round 2
Sunny Akani (44) bye to Round 3
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David Lilley (94) v Amine Amiri (118)
Jamie Jones (69) bye to Round 2
Michael Holt (28) bye to Round 3
Brandon Sargeant (102) v Rebecca Kenna (-)
Andrew Higginson (60) bye to Round 2
Li Hang (37) bye to Round 3
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Zhao Jianbo (102) v Ross Muir (-)
Jimmy Robertson (61) bye to Round 2
Lu Ning (36) bye to Round 3
Rod Lawler (94) v Alex Borg (121)
Yuan Sijun (68) bye to Round 2
Liang Wenbo (29) bye to Round 3
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Fergal O'Brien (111) v Fergal Quinn (-)
Stuart Carrington (52) bye to Round 2
Mark Davis (43) bye to Round 3
Jamie Clarke (86) v Iulian Boiko (125)
Jamie O'Neill (79) bye to Round 2
Joe Perry (20) bye to Round 3
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Igor Figueiredo (85) v Farakh Ajaib (122)
Robbie Williams (80) bye to Round 2
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (19) bye to Round 3
Rory McLeod (112) v Brian Ochoiski (-)
Anthony Hamilton (51) bye to Round 2
Mark Joyce (46) bye to Round 3
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Ashley Carty (94) v
Michael White (-)
Louis Heathcote (67) bye to Round 2
Ryan Day (30) bye to Round 3
Peter Lines (101) v Mark Lloyd (-)
Luo Honghao (62) bye to Round 2
Ricky Walden (35) bye to Round 3
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Allan Taylor (104) v Bai Langning (117)
Alan McManus (59) bye to Round 2
Ben Woollaston (38) bye to Round 3
Duane Jones (93) v Hayden Staniland (-)
Daniel Wells (70) bye to Round 2
Martin Gould (27) bye to Round 3
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Steven Hallworth (109) v Dean Young (-)
David Grace (52) bye to Round 2
Jordan Brown (43) bye to Round 3
James Cahill (88) v Sean Maddocks (126)
Gerard Greene (77) bye to Round 2
Gary Wilson (22) bye to Round 3
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Si Jiahui (89) v Hamim Hussain (-)
Pang Junxu (76) bye to Round 2
Ali Carter (23) bye to Round 3
Peter Devlin (108) v Lukas Kleckers (115)
Alexander Ursenbacher (55) bye to Round 2
Martin O'Donnell (42) bye to Round 3
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Kacper Filipiak (92) v Riley Parsons (118)
Jackson Page (72) bye to Round 2
Zhao Xintong (26) bye to Round 3
Aaron Hill (105) v Ashley Hugill (116)
Sam Craigie (58) bye to Round 2
Hossein Vafaei (39) bye to Round 3
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Lei Peifan (100) v Ben Mertens (-)
Chris Wakelin (63) bye to Round 2
Matthew Stevens (34) bye to Round 3
Simon Lichtenberg (97) v Ivan Kakovskii (-)
Ian Burns (66) bye to Round 2
Xiao Guodong (31) bye to Round 3
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Ben Hancorn (113) v Florian Nuessle (-)
Mark King (50) bye to Round 2
Luca Brecel (47) bye to Round 3
Mitchell Mann (83) v Robbie McGuigan (-)
Chen Zifan (81) bye to Round 2
Stuart Bingham (18) bye to Round 3