British Open Snooker 2026 | Draw, Live Scores, Results and Schedule of Play

The snooker season returns to UK soil for the 2026 British Open, and you can follow the latest results and schedule of play here.

After three successive tournaments in China, the world’s best players are back on home shores at The Centaur in Cheltenham, where the event will take place between August 31 and September 6 with a top prize of £100,000 at stake.

This will be the sixth consecutive edition of the tournament, which was initially a mainstay on the tour between 1980 and 2004, since it returned to the calendar in 2021.

Unlike most events, there is a random draw ahead of every round, meaning anyone can play anyone and there is no protection for the world’s top players.

All players outside the world’s top 16, whose matches were heldover to the main venue, came through a qualifier in Leicester last month.

Shaun Murphy is the reigning champion after beating Anthony McGill 10-7 in last year’s final.

The Magician is aiming to become a multiple winner of this tournament, along with four-time champion John Higgins and three-time victor Mark Williams, who will be among the players trying to stop him.

Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Allen have withdrawn from the event, but the rest of the world’s best players will be on display this week.

They include new world number one Zhao Xintong and World champion Wu Yize, as well as 2024 British Open winner Mark Selby.

Judd Trump starts his mission to regain top spot in the WST rankings, while world number two Neil Robertson looks to close the gap on Zhao at the summit, and Kyren Wilson looks to progress beyond the British Open last 16 for the first time.

All matches up to and including the last 16 are contested over the best of seven frames, with the quarter-finals the best of nine, the semi-finals best of 11, and final best of 19.

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British Open 2026 Schedule of Play

Monday August 31

Round One (Round Two = R2)

1pm
Shaun Murphy 4-0 Reanne Evans
Mark Williams 0-4 David Gilbert
Ding Junhui 4-1 Anton Kazakov
Iulian Boiko 4-2 Xu Yichen (R2)

2pm
Barry Hawkins 4-0 Deng Haohui
Wu Yize 4-3 Liu Hongyu
Mark Joyce 4-1 Mateusz Baranowski
Florian Nuessle 1-4 Kyren Wilson

7pm
Xiao Guodong 4-2 Jiang Jun
Wang Xinbo 4-1 Patrick Whelan
Judd Trump 4-2 Dylan Emery
Chris Wakelin 4-3 Luca Brecel

8pm
Mark Selby 4-3 David Lilley
Pang Junxu 4-1 Neil Robertson
John Higgins 4-1 Hossein Vafaei
Ashley Carty 4-3 Si Jiahui

Tuesday September 1

Round Two (Round One = R1)

10am
Jackson Page 4-1 Jimmy Robertson
Mark Joyce 4-0 Jordan Brown
Jak Jones 4-0 Anthony McGill
Gong Chenzhi 2-4 He Guoqiang

1pm
Oliver Brown 1-4 Zhao Xintong (R1)
Chatchapong Nasa 1-4 Chang Bingyu
Liu Yang 2-4 Duane Jones
Lyu Haotian 4-2 Xiao Guodong

2pm
Joshua Thomond 2-4 Artemijs Zizins
Zhang Anda 4-3 Chris Wakelin
Wu Yize 1-4 Kyren Wilson
Mahmoud El Hareedy 2-4 Liam Highfield

7pm
Sean O’Sullivan 0-4 Ding Junhui
Elliot Slessor 4-1 Jamie Clarke
Mitchell Mann 3-4 Jack Lisowski
Steven Hallworth 2-4 Ishpreet Singh Chadha

8pm
Liam Davies 4-2 Barry Hawkins
Phil O’Kane 0-4 Michael Holt
Pang Junxu 4-2 Liam Graham
Ali Carter 3-4 Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon

Wednesday September 2

Round Two

10am
Long Zehuang 4-2 Ashley Carty
Matthew Stevens 3-4 Fan Zhengyi
Stan Moody 4-1 Yao Pengcheng
Lei Peifan 3-4 Mark Selby

1pm
Bai Yulu 3-4 Ross Muir
Judd Trump 4-2 Ricky Walden
Jamie Jones 3-4 Wang Xinbo
David Gilbert 4-2 Shaun Murphy

2pm
David Grace 4-1 Zak Surety
Noppon Saengkham 3-4 John Higgins
Zhao Xintong 4-2 Daniel Wells
Aaron Hill 4-2 Ben Mertens

Round Three

7pm
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 3-4 Jack Lisowski
Mark Selby 4-3 Jackson Page
Iulian Boiko 4-1 Ding Junhui
Lyu Haotian 3-2 Duane Jones

8pm
Pang Junxu 0-4 Mark Joyce
He Guoqiang 1-4 Artemijs Zizins
Kyren Wilson 1-4 Liam Highfield
Jak Jones 4-1 Chang Bingyu

Thursday September 3

Round Three

1pm
Stan Moody 4-3 Zhang Anda
Aaron Hill 4-2 Wang Xinbo
John Higgins 4-3 Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon
Elliot Slessor 0-4 Judd Trump

2pm
David Grace 0-4 Long Zehuang
Zhao Xintong 4-0 Michael Holt
Liam Davies 3-4 David Gilbert
Ross Muir 2-4 Fan Zhengyi

Last 16

7pm
Lyu Haotian 1-4 Jack Lisowski
Stan Moody 4-2 John Higgins
Jak Jones 4-2 Artemijs Zizins
Iulian Boiko 2-4 Mark Selby

8pm
Zhao Xintong 4-2 Mark Joyce
Liam Highfield 4-1 Long Zehuang
Judd Trump 4-0 David Gilbert
Fan Zhengyi 0-4 Aaron Hill

Friday September 4

Quarter-Finals

1pm
Liam Highfield 5-2 Stan Moody
Mark Selby 5-0 Jack Lisowski

7pm
Judd Trump 5-1 Zhao Xintong
Aaron Hill 4-5 Jak Jones

Saturday September 5

Semi-Finals

1pm
Mark Selby 6-3 Liam Highfield

7pm
Judd Trump 3-6 Jak Jones

Sunday September 6

Final

1pm & 7pm
Mark Selby 6-10 Jak Jones