The English Open is among three new competitions close by comparable new pursuits in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the trio joining the effectively entrenched Welsh Open on the schedule. Every occasion offers an individual victor's check of £70,000 however in the event that some individual can some way or another figure out how to gather each of the four trophies there will be a cool £1 million reward paid out.
At the point when considering players who could accomplish such an uncommon deed, Ronnie O'Sullivan is the conspicuous hopeful who springs to mind.
To the pleasure of his army of fans, the Englishman is in the 128 man draw and is naturally energized at the possibility of splitting the game's freshest, and most lucrative, real test.
"It's an awesome carrot to be dangled before us," said O'Sullivan. "On the off chance that anybody can win 28 back to back matches in this configuration they merit more than £1 million, that is the means by which hard it would be."
"In any case, it's awesome for snooker that there's discussion of that sort of cash. It's a hot ticket and I'd prescribe anybody to go and watch it."
The five-time best on the planet starts his mission with a precarious opener against Jimmy Robertson on Tuesday.
Regardless of missing the initial couple of months of the crusade, O'Sullivan keeps up his typical most loved tag to wind up champion next Sunday and bookies give a lot of free wager offers on the off chance that you favor a punt over the coming days.
In truth, the English Open, alongside alternate competitions which make up the Home Nations, is an exceptionally troublesome occasion to anticipate with the initial four rounds being the short best of seven edges.
The arrangement will get the standard flood of weeping over on online networking and a far distance, yet it's entirely an adjusted timetable with the quarter-finals expanded to nine casings, 11 for the semi-finals, and a two-session last comprising of 17 edges wrapping procedures up.
The other energizing part of the arrangement is that it sees snooker come back to the nations which would be viewed as the conventional homes of the game.
Britain has had a relentless deluge of new occasions in the course of the last couple of seasons however Scotland and Northern Ireland have sat tight quite a while for their chance to have a positioning occasion once more.
A decent touch a week ago was the declaration that the English Open trophy would be named after legend Steve Davis.
The previous world no.1 said: "It will be a pleased minute when I see the trophy being passed out interestingly and it's extremely complimenting to have been given this respect."
"It's awesome to have another competition in England and having the trophy in my name will make it unique for me."
In the mean time, beside O'Sullivan, who on Saturday highlights in the last four of the European Masters, all the typical suspects are in conflict at Event City – which fairly shockingly arranges the occasion in spite of a disappointingly went to Players Championship at the same setting back in March.
Ruling best on the planet Mark Selby confronts Gary Wilson while Ding Junhui, the player who Selby lost to in the last of the late Shanghai Masters, is up against Mitchell Mann.
Other positioning occasion victors this season Neil Robertson, Anthony McGill and Ali Carter separately handle Hamza Akbar, Jamie Cope and Luca Brecel at the main obstacle.
Youthful Irish newbie Josh Boileau will look to increase some energy after his first expert triumph a month ago as he meets Zhang Anda.
Somewhere else, 1997 best on the planet Ken Doherty has a charming excursion against Judd Trump while kindred Dubliner Fergal O'Brien goes up against Robbie Williams.
The question on everyone's lips all through the arrangement will be whether anyone can arrive the million pounds reward.
The odds are negligible, and before one week from now's over there'll just be one player left equipped for accomplishing the deed.
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