RONNIE O'SULLIVAN, Kyren Wilson and the world's top snooker players are back in action this week. China hosts the second ranking event of the snooker season with a huge prize pot available for players at the Xi'an Grand Prix. The tournament is now into the last 32 with big names such as Neil Robertson, Zhang Anda and Stephen Maguire already OUT - Luca Brecel, the 2023 world champion, also failed to turn up for his match in time, allowing opponent Hammad Miah a walkover win.
But the likes of O'Sullivan, Wilson , Mark Williams and Mark Allen are still in the hunt for silverware. Here's everything you need to know. When is the Xi'an Grand Prix 2024? Qualifiers took place in Leicester from July 25 to 27, while the action proper for the inaugural Xi'an Grand Prix started on Monday, August 19.
The final will be held at the Qujiang E-sports Centre on Sunday, August 25. Early round matches have an early session at 7am BST and a later session starting at 12.30pm BST - the later rounds will only have matches in the later session.
Matches are best of nine frames until the semi-final stage, when they move to a best of 11. The final will then jump up to be best of 19. Most read in Snooker What TV channel is the Xi'an Masters 2024 being shown and can it be streamed? Unfortunately, there was no British TV broadcaster named for the tournament.
So to catch the action, snooker fans will have to follow Matchroom Sport. The body usually shows select matches on YouTube - like they have been with .