Northern Ireland Open snooker results LIVE: Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump into semis
The Northern Ireland Open takes place this week with Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump among the big names in action in Milton Keynes.
Ronnie O'Sullivan clashes with Mark Allen during tense game
The Northern Ireland Open takes place this week in Milton Keynes ahead of next Monday's UK Championship and Judd Trump is looking to win the tournament for a third successive year, having gotten the better of Ronnie O’Sullivan in the last two finals.
World champion O'Sullivan was knocked out of the recent Champion of Champions tournament by eventual winner Mark Allen after a fiery row in their quarter-final clash.
And 44-year-old O'Sullivan is still looking for a first Northern Ireland title since the event began in 2016 and will hope to make Sunday's final.
The Alex Higgins trophy has been won by world No 1 Trump in the past two years, beating O'Sullivan 9-7 in each final.
The Englishman, 31, will be keen for further glory at the Marshall Arena in MK, with the tournament moved from its usual Belfast location due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump won the English Open last month, beating Neil Robertson, and is the bookies' favourite alongside O'Sullivan.
Champion of Champions winner Allen, Robertson, Mark Selby and Kyren Wilson are among the other threats going into the event.
Northern Irishman Allen said heading into this week: "It has really only begun to sink in that the NI Open will be played in Milton Keynes. It's tough to take. I was always lucky enough to have a big support at the tournament.
"Most of my friends and family would have been there. I usually needed between 80 and 100 tickets. There's a lot of pressure when you play in the NI Open and also a great sense of pride as everybody is supporting you.
"I've played in it for the last four years but it will be a very different tournament this time with no crowd. It will have a very different feel."
You can see all the latest scores and updates from the 2020 Northern Ireland Open below.
Northern Ireland Open order of play
ROUND ONE
Monday 16 November
Simon Lichtenberg 1-4 Rod Lawler
Paul S Davison 3-4 Andy Hicks
Gary Wilson 2-4 Rory McLeod
Tian Pengfei vs Noppon Saengkham w/o (Pengfei goes through)
David Gilbert 1-4 David Grace
Yan Bingtao 4-1 Peter Lines
Martin O'Donnell 1-4 Lu Ning
Scott Donaldson 4-1 Sean Maddocks
Michael Holt 4-1 Soheil Vahedi
Judd Trump 4-1 Gerard Greene
Alexander Ursenbacher 4-2 Lei Peifan
Chen Zifan 1-4 Xu Si
Mark Williams 4-2 Jamie Jones
Martin Gould 4-0 Jamie Clarke
Kyren Wilson 4-0 David Lilley
Sam Craigie 4-0 Amine Amiri
Anthony McGill vs Riley Parsons w/o (McGill goes through)
Xiao Guodong 4-1 Duane Jones
Luca Brecel 4-0 Kacper Filipiak
Zhou Yuelong 4-0 Jimmy White
Fan Zhengyi 0-4 Robert Milkins
Ken Doherty 4-1 Chris Wakelin
Jack Lisowski 1-4 Ashley Carty
Brandon Sargeant 2-4 Louis Heathcote
Aaron Hill 3-4 Jackson Page
Kurt Maflin 4-1 Fraser Patrick
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 Jamie O'Neill
Stephen Maguire 4-2 Alex Borg
Shaun Murphy 0-4 Ryan Day
Matthew Selt 4-3 Joe O'Connor
Mark Davis 4-3 Ian Burns
ROUND ONE
Tuesday 17 November
Jamie Wilson 1-4 Nigel Bond
Mark King 2-4 Zak Surety
Zhao Xintong 4-2 Si Jiahui
Lukas Kleckers 4-1 Chang Bingyu
Stuart Carrington 4-1 Billy Joe Castle
Tom Ford 4-2 Lee Walker
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4-2 Peter Devlin
Liang Wenbo 4-3 Steven Hallworth
Graeme Dott 2-4 Igor Figueiredo
Neil Robertson vs Declan Lavery w/o (Robertson goes through)
Pang Junxu 0-4 Jak Jones
Mark Joyce 2-4 Dominic Dale
Ding Junhui 4-0 Eden Sharav
Barry Hawkins 4-2 Alan McManus
Mark Selby 4-1 Andrew Higginson
Ali Carter 4-1 Ben Hancorn
Sunny Akani 4-3 Jordan Brown
Yuan SiJun 4-3 Luo Honghao
Zhao Jianbo 4-1 Brian Ochoiski
James Cahill 4-1 Lyu Haotian
Fergal O'Brien 4-2 Ashley Hugill
Matthew Stevens 4-2 Jimmy Robertson
Iulian Boiko 0-4 Michael White
Ben Woollaston 4-3 Ricky Walden
Stuart Bingham 4-1 Oliver Lines
John Higgins 4-0 Daniel Wells
Patrick Wallace 4-1 Farakh Ajaib
Mark Allen 4-0 Anthony Hamilton
Allan Taylor 4-2 Hossein Vafaei
Joe Perry 4-0 Robbie Williams
Elliot Slessor 4-1 Li Hang
ROUND TWO
Wednesday 18 November
Rory McLeod 1-4 Martin Gould
Mark Davis 2-4 Matthew Stevens
Elliot Slessor 1-4 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Robert Milkins 2-4 Mark Allen
Lukas Kleckers 4-0 Mark Selby
Liang Wenbo 4-1 Jak Jones
ROUND THREE
Thursday 19 November
Andy Hicks 3-4 Martin GouldNoppon Saengkham 4-0 Stephen Maguire
Kyren Wilson 2-4 Michael Holt
David Grace 4-3 Michael White
Barry Pinches 1-4 Yan Bingtao
Ben Woollaston 4-2 Liang Wenbo
Ding Junhui 4-0 Yuan Sijun
Allan Taylor 0-4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Judd Trump 4-3 Luca Brecel
Scott Donaldson 4-1 Mark Allen
Zhao Xintong 4-0 Lukas Kleckers
Dominic Dale 2-4 Ali Carter
Igor Figueiredo 4-3 Zhao Jianbo
Kurt Maflin 4-1 Ryan Day
John Higgins 4-0 Matthew Selt
Matthew Stevens 2-4 Ronnie O'Sullivan
ROUND FOUR
Thursday 19 November
Judd Trump 4-1 Martin Gould
Noppon Saengkham 2-4 Scott Donaldson
Michael Holt 3-4 David Grace
Yan Bingtao 4-3 Zhao Xintong
Ben Woollaston 2-4 Ali Carter
Igor Figueiredo 1-4 Kurt Maflin
John Higgins 1-4 Ding Junhui
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 2-4 Ronnie O'Sullivan
QUARTER-FINALS
Friday 20 November
Judd Trump 5-1 Scott DonaldsonAli Carter 5-3 Kurt Maflin
David Grace 5-2 Yan Bingtao
Ding Junhui 2-5 Ronnie O'Sullivan
SEMI-FINALS
Saturday 21 November
Judd Trump vs David GraceAli Carter vs Ronnie O'Sullivan
FINAL
Sunday 22 November
TBC
Northern Ireland Open prize money
Winner: £70,000
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £10,000
Last 16: £7,500
Last 32: £4,000
Last 64: £3,000
Highest break: £5,000