The World Blended Doubles takes place on Saturday and Sunday in Manchester with 4 women and men pairings within the 2024 draw.

It’s the third-last event of the 2023/24 snooker season, with simply the Tour Championship and the campaign-concluding World Championship to come back after.

Let’s check out a number of the key data forward of this weekend’s occasion.

Who’re the earlier winners?

Below its present guise, the World Blended Doubles was additionally solely held as soon as earlier than – close to the start of the 2022/23 marketing campaign.

Neil Robertson and Mink Nutcharut emerged with the title on the Marshall Area in Milton Keynes, pocketing £30,000 every for his or her efforts.

Previous to that, there was an identical event staged all the way in which again in 1991 with Steve Davis and Allison Fisher edging Stephen Hendry and Stacey Hillyard 5-4 within the closing.

There was additionally a combined doubles occasion on the 1991 World Masters, with the identical partnership of Davis and Fisher overcoming Jimmy White and Caroline Walch for the silverware.

Who’s within the 2024 World Blended Doubles draw?

Following their success on the 2022 version, Neil Robertson and Mink Nutcharut will return because the defending champions.

Mink represents the ladies’s world primary however lately misplaced the ultimate of the Ladies’s World Championship to Bai Yulu.

The latter is sadly not on this yr’s World Blended Doubles draw regardless of romping to glory in China earlier this month.

The opposite returning partnership from final season is the duo of Mark Selby and Rebecca Kenna.

Kenna was speculated to be taking part in with Mark Allen, however the Northern Irishman withdrew from the competitors this week citing private causes.

Selby and Kenna carried out effectively collectively final trip, reaching the ultimate earlier than being denied the silverware by Robertson and Nutcharut.

The pre-tournament favourites with the bookies, nevertheless, are Judd Trump and Baipat Siripaporn.

Whereas Siripaporn hasn’t loved the best of seasons, failing to construct on her shock ladies’s world triumph in 2023, it has been an excellent marketing campaign for Trump.

The Englishman has gained 5 rating titles since October, together with final week’s World Open in Yushan.

Lastly, reigning Crucible champion Luca Brecel will crew up with 12-time ladies’s world champ Reanne Evans.

World Blended Doubles

Saturday

Spherical Robin Stage

From 1pm UTC
Robertson/Mink vs Brecel/Evans
Trump/Siripaporn vs Selby/Kenna

From 7pm UTC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC

Sunday

From 1pm UTC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC

Last

Sunday, 7pm UTC
TBC vs TBC

The place is the occasion?

A metropolis well-known for its sports activities golf equipment like Man Metropolis and Man Utd, the World Blended Doubles will happen in Manchester for the primary time.

Subsequent week’s Tour Championship may even be staged on the identical venue – the Manchester Central.

watch the World Blended Doubles?

There are a number of choices obtainable to observe the upcoming snooker stay, relying in your location.

Under is a full listing, as beforehand printed on the World Snooker Tour web site:

UK and Eire
ITV
China
Liaoning TV
Migu
Huya.com
Hong Kong China
Now TV
Malaysia and Brunei
Astro SuperSport
Thailand
True Imaginative and prescient
Taiwan
Sportcast
Philippines
Premier Sports activities Community
Pakistan
Fastsports
All different territories
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