Yesterday marked the start of the 2021 British Open, a professional snooker event hosted at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. It is the first British Open since 2004 and will finish on August 22. The final winner is awarded £100,000 of the £470,000 prize fund, and the runner-up gets £45,000.

The tournament features 128 participants and is split into round 1, round 2, round 3, round 4, quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final. The first four rounds are played as best-of-five frame matches, the quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played as best-of-seven frame matches, and the final will be played as the best-of-eleven frames.

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The first round, which lasts from August 16 - August 18, began yesterday, with 48 matches taking place in total. John Higgins, the 46-year-old defending champion, made a maximum break in the first frame of his game against Swiss Alexander Ursenbacher. Higgins won 3-1, advancing him to round two, which takes place on August 18 and 19.

Judd Trump, the current world number one, was originally trailing 1-2 to Mitchell Mann, but pulled through and beat Mann 3-2. Mark Allen, the 2021 Championship League runner-up, beat Reanne Evans 3-2. This was the first time the two had met in a professional setting since their three-year relationship ended in 2008.

David Gilbert, the winner of the BetVictor Championship League, is set to face Matthew Stevens, a Welsh professional who has compiled more than 300-century breaks during his career.

Related: David Gilbert wins BetVictor Championship League after beating Mark Allen in the final.

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