As well as the live snooker action at the India Open qualifiers and Championship League winner’s group this evening, we also saw the draw for the 2015 Shoot Out made live on Andy Goldstein’s Sports Bar show on TalkSport, with Stephen Hendry and Jason Cundy doing the honours.
No doubt that the order of matches will be changed prior to the start of the tournament, but the names were drawn out in the following order:
Rory McLeod v Nigel Bond
Joe Swail v Barry Hawkins
Alan McManus v Anthony Hamilton
Dechawat Poomjaeng v Jimmy White
Ken Doherty v Alfie Burden
Mark Joyce v Jamie Jones
Stephen Maguire v Sam Baird
Ali Carter v Mark King
Martin Gould v David Gilbert
Graeme Dott v Jimmy Robertson
Rod Lawler v Gerard Greene
John Higgins v Mark Williams
Fraser Patrick v Mark Davis
Luca Brecel v Dominic Dale
Joe Perry v Mike Dunn
Stuart Bingham v Fergal O’Brien
Andrew Higginson v Ricky Walden
Marcus Campbell v Chris Wakelin
Aditya Mehta v Noppon Saengkham
Matt Selt v Judd Trump
Kyren Wlson v Kurt Maflin
David Morris v Matthew Stevens
Peter Ebdon v Gary Wilson
Dave Harold v Ronnie O’Sullivan
Mark Selby v Anthony McGill
Xiao Guodong v Peter Lines
Shaun Murphy v Jamie Burnett
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Mark Allen
Jamie Cope v Ben Woollaston
Tom Ford v Jack Lisowski
Michael Holt v Ryan Day
Robert Milkins v Michael White
The lowest ranked player is 75th placed Fraser Patrick following the non-entry of the likes of Ding Junhui and Neil Robertson above him.
The tournament will be held in Blackpool between 4-6 March 2015 and broadcast live on SkySports.