Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Selby will not be playing at the second staging of the World Mixed Doubles in Manchester later this month as Neil Robertson and Mink Nutcharut defend the title they won in September 2022 in Milton Keynes. The popular event will again by staged as a Round Round format with the two top teams from the four-team section progressing to the final.
Neil Robertson and Mink Nutcharut will defend their World Mixed Doubles title later this month, but world No. 1 Ronnie O’Sullivan is not playing the event.
Robertson and Mink defeated Mark Selby and Rebecca Kenna 4-2 in last season’s final of the event in Milton Keynes with doubles returning to the main circuit after a 31-year absence, but Selby has joined O’Sullivan in sitting out the two-day competition in Manchester on March 30 and March 31.
World champion Luca Brecel replaces O’Sullivan to team up with 12-time women’s world champion Reanne Evans, with Players champion Mark Allen taking over from Selby in a partnership with women’s world No. 4 Kenna.
Judd Trump will play alongside women’s world champion Baipat Siripaporn after teaming up with Hong Kong’s Ng On-yee last time.
Baipat is due to begin the defence of her women’s world title in Dongguan in China next week (March 11-17).
Seven-time world champion O’Sullivan is due to return to action at the World Open in Yushan on Tuesday, March 19 when he faces Michael White at 11:30am UK time for a place in the last 32.
He is also set to play in the 12-player Tour Championship which begins in Manchester after the completion of World Mixed Doubles on Monday April 1.
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