The world ranking event is taking place in the state of Kerala in the south of India for the first time, having previously been held in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Visakhapatnam. It was due to take place in Kochi in September but was postponed due to flooding in the region.

Following are the RESULTS of Day 01:

Match 2: DominicDale beat AsutoshPadhy (4-2)
Match 3: BenWoollaston beat SuryanarayananShrikrishna (4-0)
Match 4: Yan Bingtao beat Gerard Greene (4-3)
Match 7: ZhouYuelong beat Laxman Rawat (4-1)

Match 15: Joe Perry beat Ashley Carty (4-1)
Match 17: Sam Craigie beat LiangWenbo (‏ (4-3
Match 18: Stuart Bingham beat Peter Lines (4-1)
Match 19: John Astley beat Gary Wilson (4-1)
Match 20: Jack Lisowski beat Himanshu Jain (4-0)
Match 21: LuNing beat Liam Highfield (4-1)
Match 22: Matthew Selt beat Tom Ford (4-2)
Match 24: Oliver Lines beat Fergal O'Brien (4-1)

Schedule of Thursday- February 28

Round One - from 5.30am UK time

Hossein Vafaei [32] v Dominic Dale

David B Gilbert [17] v Elliot Slessor

Luke Simmonds (a) v Mei Xiwen [89]

Luca Brecel [7] v Ian Burns [58]

Alexander Ursenbacher [54] v Graeme Dott [11]

Paul S Davison [71] v Mark Davis [27]

Digvijay Kadian (a) v Andrew Higginson [39]

Jimmy Robertson [23] v Scott Donaldson [42]

Peter Ebdon [40] v Ben Woollaston

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh [43] v Michael Holt [22]

Yuan Sijun [59] v Thor Chuan Leong

Craig Steadman [81] v Zhang Yong [55]

Andy Hicks (a) v Li Yuan [62]

Zhou Yuelong / Rawat v Lü Haotian [46]

Sam Baird v Zhao Xintong [82]

Lee Walker [90] v S Murphy / Vatnani

John Higgins v Duane Jones [64]

Joe Swail [73] v Jack Lisowski

Rory McLeod [47] v Anthony Hamilton [18]

Chris Wakelin [34] v Stuart Carrington [31]