Rising Irish star Josh Boileau has been handed a difficult draw in the World Snooker Championships qualifying after being paired with Matthew Stevens.
Boileau won the European Under-21 Snooker Championship this year and will face the former runner-up in the first round.
The 1997 champion Ken Doherty will take on Andy Hicks, with Gerard Greene set to take on fan favourite Jimmy White. Fergal O’Brien will meet fellow veteran Steve Davis.
Irish amateur Greg Casey has also been handed a daunting prospect after being first out in the draw to meet Ding Junhui.
Brendan O’Dononghue takes his place in the draw after winning the Amateur Championship in Ireland last year – he will meet David Grace.
Kilkenny’s David Morris comes up against Chris Melling.
The players must come through three rounds of qualifying to reach the Crucible. The matches begin on Wednesday.
1. Ding Junhui v Greg Casey (*a)
2. Ross Muir v Sean O’Sullivan
3. Andrew Higginson v Nigel Bond
4. Gary Wilson v Leo Fernandez (a)
5. Jamie Jones v Hamza Akbar
6. Ian Burns v Duane Jones
7. Gerard Greene v Jimmy White
8. Peter Ebdon v James Wattana
9. Ben Woollaston v Chris Wakelin
10. Anthony Hamilton v Sydney Wilson
11. Robbie Williams v Gareth Allen
12. Mark Joyce v Zak Surety
13. Mike Dunn v James Cahill
14. Li Hang v Lyu Chenwei
15. Michael Georgiou v Noppon Saengkham
16. Graeme Dott v Brandon Sargeant (a)
17. Robert Milkins v Ka Wai Cheung (a)
18. Joel Walker v Scott Donaldson
19. Kurt Maflin v Sanderson Lam
20. Rod Lawler v Zhao Xintong (a)
21. Mark King v Fraser Patrick
22. David Grace v Brendan O’Donoghue (a)
23. Peter Lines v Ng On Yee (af)
24. Michael Holt v Michael Wild
25. Alan McManus v Michael Wasley
26. David Morris v Chris Melling
27. Stuart Carrington v Hammad Miah (a)
28. Jimmy Robertson v Tyler Rees (a)
29. Tian Pengfei v Hossein Vafaei Ayouri
30. Ken Doherty v Andy Hicks (a)
31. Alfie Burden v Tony Drago
32. Ryan Day v Daniel Wells
33. Kyren Wilson v Jason Weston
34. Martin O’Donnell v Kuldesh Johal (a)
35. Joe Swail v Zhang Yong
36. Matthew Stevens v Josh Boileau (a)
37. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Akani Songsermsawad
38. Yu Delu v Paul S Davison
39. Craig Steadman v Michael Leslie
40. Anthony McGill v Hatem Yassin
41. Luca Brecel v Steven Hallworth
42. Liam Highfield v Luke Simmonds (a)
43. Sam Baird v Thor Chuan Leong
44. Tom Ford v Darryl Hill
45. Jack Lisowski v Alex Taubman (a)
46. Rory McLeod v Lukas Kleckers (a)
47. Lee Walker v Conor McCormack (a)
48. David Gilbert v Rhys Clark
49. Matthew Selt v Igor Figueiredo
50. Mitchell Mann v Kishan Hirani (a)
51. Robin Hull v Barry Pinches
52. Dechawat Poomjaeng v Eden Sharav
53. Fergal O’Brien v Steve Davis
54. Zhou Yuelong v Dylan Craig (a)
55. Zhang Anda v Bratislav Krustev (a)
56. Mark Davis v Adam Duffy (a)
57. Allister Carter v Mateusz Baranowski (a)
58. Cao Yupeng v Rodion Judin (a)
59. Oliver Lines v Lu Ning
60. Dominic Dale v Ian Glover
61. Xiao Guodong v Allan Taylor
62. Jamie Burnett v Jamie Rhys Clarke (a)
63. Jamie Cope v Ashley Hugill (a)
64. Liang Wenbo v Joe O’Connor (a)