The World 9 Ball Hanoi Open Pool Championship will see 256 players battling it out for a $200,000 prize fund over the course of six thrilling days at the Vietnam National Sports Complex.
The World 9 Ball Tour's top 128 signed professionals are set to feature in the event alongside the global qualifiers of 2024 in a star studded field, with Scotland's Jayson Shaw the defending champion.
The World 9 Ball Hanoi Open Pool Championship will run from Tuesday 8th October until Sunday 13th October.
The first four days of the event are set to run from 10:00-21:00 local time in Hanoi, which equates 04:00 BST through until 15:00 BST each day.
The final two days will have afternoon and evening sessions getting underway from midday and 18.30 local time. For fans in the UK, those start times equate to 06:00 BST and 12:30 BST each day on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October.
The World 9 Ball Hanoi Open Pool Championship is set to be staged once more at the Hanoi Indoor Games Gymnasium within the Vietnam National Sports Complex in Hanoi.
The arena hosted 3,000 pool fans for the inaugural final in 2023.
Sky Sports Mix will provide live coverage of the final two days of the event, beginning at 06:00 BST on Saturday 12th October and featuring all four sessions across the weekend.
Big names from Asia, Europe and the United States will descend on Vietnam, headlined by defending champion Shaw of Scotland.
Aloysius Yapp, Johann Chua, Ko Pin Yi, Carlo Biado and local Vietnamese star Duong Quoc Hoang are all set to be part of Team Asia in the upcoming Reyes Cup against Europe and they are in the field.
Shaw's European teammates include the 2023 World Champion Francisco Sanchez Ruiz, recent World Pool Championship runner-up Eklent Kaci and European Open champion Mickey Krause.
2024 World Champion Fedor Gorst is playing, while his American teammates also include five-time US Open champion Shane Van Boening alongside Tyler Styer, Oscar Dominguez and Billy Thorpe – each trying to secure the last remaining spot on Team USA's Mosconi Cup squad.
Skyler Woodward will captain the American team this year and is heading to Hanoi having won the Pennsylvania Open - his first ranking title of the year.
This is the second staging of the event. The 2023 tournament brought an electric atmosphere, passionate fans and high-level competition as 3,000 spectators watched the final.
Jayson Shaw defeated Austria's Albin Ouschan in the first ever final in 2023, the Scot winning a tense tussle in a dramatic final on a 13–12 scoreline after he had trailed 4-0 and 10-5.