The Scottish Open is a ranking professional snooker tournament held in the United Kingdom. The tournament had many name changes in its history, as the tournament was formerly called International Open, Matchroom Trophy and Players Championship. Apart from a hiatus in the 1990/1991 and 1991/1992 seasons, the tournament remained a ranking event until 2003/2004. In the 2012/2013 season the tournament was added back to the calendar as part of the Players Tour Championship minor-ranking series. The most recent champion is Mark Selby.
Dominic Dale is a Welsh professional snooker player and snooker commentator and presenter for the BBC.
Anthony Stephen Hamilton is an English professional snooker player. He has spent five seasons ranked among the game's elite Top 16 and fifteen in the Top 32, reaching a career-high of number ten in the world in the 1999/2000 season. Hamilton is a four-time World Championship quarter-finalist, a Masters semi-finalist and compiler of more than 300 competitive century breaks during his long career. He won his first ranking title in 2017, beating Ali Carter 9–6 in the final of the German Masters, doing so at the age of 45. Hamilton is the fifth-oldest person to win a ranking event, after Ray Reardon (50), Doug Mountjoy (46), Mark Williams (46) and John Higgins (45).
Mark Davis is an English professional snooker player from St Leonards in Sussex. He became professional in 1991, and for many years was considered something of a journeyman; however, he vastly improved his game in the late 2000s, and as a result in 2012 made his debut in the top 16. The highlights of his career so far have been winning the Benson & Hedges Championship in 2002, and the six-red snooker world championships three times. Davis reached his first ranking event final in 2018, losing to Stuart Bingham in the final of the English Open. Prior to this he was widely considered to be the best player never to have reached a ranking final.
Liang Wenbo is a Chinese professional snooker player based at the Oracle Snooker Club, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. Liang, who plays left-handed, has reached one triple crown final, made two Masters appearances and was the champion of the inaugural English Open in 2016 as well as twice winning the World Cup for China along with teammate Ding Junhui.
Rod Lawler is an English former professional snooker player. He is noted for his slow playing style, which gave rise to his nickname, "Rod the Plod".
Patrick Wallace is a former professional snooker player from Dungannon in Northern Ireland. During his career, which lasted seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he won two non-ranking titles, and notably was a quarter-finalist in the 2001 World Championship.
Alfred Burden is an English professional snooker player from London.
Tian Pengfei is a Chinese professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed on the World Snooker Tour for two seasons until he dropped off in 2008. He won his first professional title, the Beijing International Challenge, and returned to the Main Tour the following year.
Paul S. Davison is an English former professional snooker player from Pickering, North Yorkshire. First earning a place on the World Snooker Tour in 1992, he played on the tour until 1997, and has since regained his place on the Tour on three further occasions, most recently in the 2018-19 snooker season. Davison reached a peak of 70th in the world snooker rankings in 2012, and the farthest into a ranking tournament at the 2017 Riga Masters. He has made a total of 76 professional century breaks, the highest being a 144 made in qualifying for the 2001 World Snooker Championship.
Daniel Wells is a Welsh former professional snooker player from Neath. He has twice come through Qualifying School to play on the professional snooker tour.
The 1994–95 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between August 1994 and May 1995. The following table outlines the results for ranking events and the invitational events.
The 1995–96 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between August 1995 and May 1996. The following table outlines the results for the ranking and the invitational events.
Anthony McGill is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus.
Kyren Wilson is an English professional snooker player from Kettering and a four-time ranking event winner. He has been a runner-up at two of the three Triple Crown events, having reached the final at both the 2018 Masters and the 2020 World Snooker Championship. Wilson reached his highest world ranking of fourth in 2020. A prolific breakbuilder, Wilson has made over 300 century breaks and a maximum break on three occasions.
Mark Johnston-Allen is a former professional snooker player.
Hossein Vafaei is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. His attempts to travel to the United Kingdom to qualify for the major tournaments on the snooker calendar were denied due to visa problems, but he gained a UK visa in February 2015.
Oliver Lines is an English professional snooker player who practices at Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. He is the son of professional snooker player Peter Lines.
John Read is an English former professional snooker player. Read competed between the years of 1991 and 2003, with his highest ranking being 62nd in the world. His most notable tournament run was at the 1996 Malta Masters, where he was beaten in the final by Mark Davies.
The 1995 Sweater Shop International Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 13 and 19 February 1995 at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, England.
John Higgins (SCO)
Rod Lawler (ENG)
