The International flavour of the World Snooker Tour this year continues with the latest players awarded a wildcard into the Shanghai Masters in September.

Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad will play former World Champion Ken Doherty and Thailand’s Passakorn Suwannawat will play Dave Harold in the Wildcard round.

The first round of qualifying for the 2010 Roewe Shanghai Masters started this morning at 10am up at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield.

There are a number of interesting names making their professional debuts at this event none more so than the name Reanne Evans. The six-times World Ladies Snooker champion starts her first fully-fledged ranking event with a very tough opponent in Alfie Burden.

Results for the 2008 Shanghai Masters Snooker Tournament

World number one Ronnie O'Sullivan captured the opening ranking event of the season with a 10-5 win over Liang Wenbo to secure the Shanghai Masters.

Ronnie O'Sullivan crushed world champion John Higgins 6-1 to reach the final of the Shanghai Masters in China.

World number one Ronnie O'Sullivan secured a place in the Shanghai Masters semi-finals with a 5-3 win over local favourite Ding Junhui.

Defending champion Ricky Walden made the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals with a 5-1 win over Stephen Hendry.

Ronnie O'Sullivan raced into the second round of the Shanghai Masters with a comfortable 5-0 win over Graeme Dott.

Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry produced a stunning comeback to beat Marcus Campbell 5-4 in the first round of the Shanghai Masters.

Former world champion Ken Doherty began his bid to regain a spot in the world's top 16 with a win over Aditya Mehta in the Shanghai Masters qualifying round.