The first round of the Scottish Open concludes inside the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh on Tuesday on a day where the final tournament of 2024 continues across three sessions of play in the latest Home Nations event.
We were due to have Ronnie O’Sullivan on the schedule on Tuesday but he has predictably pulled out of the event but we do still have the world champion Kyren Wilson and plenty of other recent tournament winners on the card.
Morning Session
As was the case on Monday, we only have the two main tables in use in the morning session where three of the four players on show are Chinese players. The International Championship winner Ding Junhui is the leading light in the morning and he will be on the TV table. He goes up against Mark Davis for a place in the second round. The other match sees the Wuhan Open finalist Si Jiahui taking on his fellow Chinese player Ma Hailong.
Afternoon Session
As ever in a Home Nations event we have two sets of matches in the afternoon session. The world champion Kyren Wilson is the headline act on the first set of games. He opens up his campaign against David Grace. That match will be on the main table and on the second table Jack Lisowski will be in action when he goes up against the former Welsh Open winner Jordan Brown. Robert Milkins is on show against Jackson Page in what should be an entertaining match while the other game sees Noppon Saengkham facing Ricky Walden.
The man Wilson took the world title from will head up the second part of the afternoon. Luca Brecel will go up against his fellow Belgian player Julien Leclercq while Mark Selby also gets his campaign underway in this session. He will go up against Stuart Carrington for a place in the second round. Two other matches take place in the latter part of the afternoon with the home hero Stephen Maguire one of the players looking to make progress. He will take on Matthew Selt while Pang Junxu plays Dean Young in the other game.
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Evening Session
Ronnie O’Sullivan was due to be the headline act in the evening session but his withdrawal will see Shaun Murphy move up to the TV table. He will face the Welsh player Daniel Wells while the other two matches have four Asians involved. Hossein Vafaei will be looking for a good run here after a poor start to the season. He takes on the useful Lei Peifan while two Chinese players battle it out in the other game when Zhou Yuelong takes on Yuan Sijun.
Just the two matches take place in the second part of the evening and they will take place on the main tables. The TV offering will see the English Open champion Neil Robertson going up against Fan Zhengyi while on the other table the newly crowned Shootout winner Tom Ford will be on show. He will look to follow up his win in Leicester when he meets Antoni Kowalski, who himself had a fairly good run in the one-frame lottery.
Betting
There isn’t a huge amount that I like over the course of the day on Tuesday, a day where both of my outright bets are on show and that is largely enough interest, but there is one price which has caught my eye and that involves taking on the home player Stephen Maguire. I don’t usually like taking on home players because their motivation is naturally going to be a nudge higher and Maguire does have a couple of quarter finals here but at the same time the here and now is important.
The last time we saw Maguire in normal snooker he lost 6-0 to Kyren Wilson and while the run of the ball wasn’t his friend in that match, he botched a couple of chances early on as well. Matt Selt is a solid player who probably isn’t going to blow a player away with a bunch of scoring unless he is really on song, he’ll battle and if he is continuously given chances to score he’ll make enough of them. I’m a little surprised that Selt is odds against here because Maguire has always been a confidence machine and he doesn’t look like he is carrying too much of it right now. At the prices I like Selt here.
Tips
Back M.Selt to beat S.Maguire for a 3/10 stake at 2.10 with Bet365
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