British Open 2023: Ronnie O’Sullivan in line to play Wu Yize, Jack Lisowski and Shaun Murphy could meet

Ronnie O’Sullivan could meet highly rated teenager Wu Yize in the second round of the British Open.

A total of 48 qualifiers enter the second round of the tournament after the top 16 in the world play their opening matches in Cheltenham next month.

Shaun Murphy and Jack Lisowski could meet in a mouth-watering second-round fixture should they beat Rebecca Kenna and Joe O’Connor respectively.

Kyren Wilson has also been dealt a difficult draw; should ‘The Warrior’ overcome Martin O’Donnell in the opening round, he will come up against the winner of last year’s runner-up Mark Allen or Anthony McGill.

Current world champion Luca Brecel’s reward if he can get past world No. 15 Ding Junhui is a second-round match with Liu Hongyu.

The reigning champion Ryan Day or Sean O’Sullivan will play Thor Chuan Leong.

Judd Trump will come up against Hammad Miah should he beat Anton Kazakov, the winner between Mark Selby and Ben Woollaston will take on Tian Pengfei, and Robbie Williams will play either John Higgins or Zehuang Long.

Neil Robertson will be hoping to improve his form, starting with an opening match with world No. 33 Si Jiahui and knowing a match with Jamie Clarke would be ahead of him.

Mark Williams’ reward if he can get past Peng Yisong is a second-round match with Stephen Maguire.

The matches are the best-of-seven frames with the quarter-finals increasing to the best-of-nine, before two best-of-11 frame semi-finals and a best-of-19 frame final.

The tournament runs from September 25 to October 1.

• Joe O’Connor or Jack Lisowski v Shaun Murphy or Rebecca Kenna
• Gary Wilson or Ahmed Elsayed v Chris Wakelin
• Ryan Day or Sean O’Sullivan v Thor Chuan Leong
• Lyu Haotian v David Gilbert
• John Higgins or Zehuang Long v Robbie Williams
• Stephen Maguire v Peng Yisong or Mark Williams
• Fan Zhengyi v Ross Muir
• He Guoqiang v Muhammad Asif
• Scott Donaldson v Liam Graham
• Judd Trump or Anton Kazakov v Hammad Miah
• Jamie Jones v Julien Leclercq
• Xu Si v Ali Carter or Allan Taylor
• Noppon Saengkham v Fergal O’Brien
• David Grace v Sanderson Lam
• Daniel Wells v Ashley Carty
• Tom Ford v Ashley Hugill
• Ken Doherty v Matthew Stevens
• Hailong Ma v Mohamed Ibrahim
• Tian Pengfei v Mark Selby or Ben Woollaston
• Jun Jiang or Robert Milkins v Stan Moody or Barry Hawkins
• Kyren Wilson or Martin O’Donnell v Mark Allen or Anthony McGill
• Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Oliver Lines
• Oliver Brown v Hossein Vafaei
• Ding Junhui or Luca Brecel v Liu Hongyu
• Anthony Hamilton v Xiao Guodong
• Andy Hicks v Graeme Dott
• Rod Lawler v Dominic Dale
• Si Jiahui v Neil Robertson or Jamie Clarke
• Yuan Sijun v Ben Mertens
• Matthew Selt v Zak Surety
• Ronnie O’Sullivan or Jimmy Robertson v Wu Yize
• Ishpreet Singh Chadha v Stuart Bingham