Ronnie O’Sullivan set for Lukas Kleckers test at Northern Ireland Open snooker with Mark Selby to facial area Reanne Evans

Earth champion Ronnie O’Sullivan will meet up with Lukas Kleckers in the initial round of the Northern Ireland Open in Belfast on Sunday 16 October.

A qualifying round will be staged at Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan later this thirty day period (23-28 August), but O’Sullivan and the relaxation of the world’s major 16 will participate in their opening matches at the city’s Waterfront Corridor – staging the event for a fifth 12 months – Live on Eurosport.

O’Sullivan has confronted Germany’s entire world No. 112 Kleckers 2 times – profitable 4-2 on each celebration – such as victory at the very same phase of the Northern Eire Open up five several years back when Kleckers made a sparkling 137 split in reaction to 126 from the Rocket.

Mark Selby meets 12-time women’s globe winner Reanne Evans in his opening match with Mark Allen commencing the defence of the title versus Chang Bingyu.

Two local players will also perform a wild card spherical at the final venue with planet No. 22 Zhou Yuelong awaiting the winner of that contest.

Planet No. 2 Judd Trump requires on veteran campaigner Rod Lawler, 2021 finalist John Higgins meets Fergal O’Brien with 2017 winner Mark Williams experiencing Peter Lines.

All matches are the finest of 7 frames with the quarter-finals raising to the very best of 9, the semi-finals the ideal of 11 just before a finest-of-17 frame closing on Sunday 23 Oct.

The Northern Eire Open is the very first match of the 2022/23 House Nations Collection with the English Open up, Scottish Open up and Welsh Open all stay on Eurosport.

Best 16 matches at Northern Eire Open

• Ronnie O’Sullivan v Lukas Kleckers
• Judd Trump v Rod Lawler
• Mark Selby v Reanne Evans
• Neil Robertson v Fraser Patrick
• John Higgins v Fergal O’Brien
• Kyren Wilson v Ken Doherty
• Mark Williams v Peter Lines
• Zhao Xintong v Lyu Haotian
• Jack Lisowski v Li Hang
• Barry Hawkins v Anthony Hamilton
• Shaun Murphy v Xu Si
• Mark Allen v Chang Bingyu
• Luca Brecel v Joe O’Connor
• Yan Bingtao v Liang Wenbo
• Ricky Walden v Xiao Guodong
• Stuart Bingham v Allan Taylor