No crowd to cheer them on - but Roberston and Davis will be glad to get back to snooker table

Bexhill-based Jimmy Robertson and Mark Davis, from St Leonards, are in the field for the Championship League event which starts next week.

To be held behind closed doors at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, the ITV-televised tournament will feature 64 leading players, including world champion Judd Trump and Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Davis will join Michael Holt, Mark Joyce and Louis Heathcote in group three on Tuesday, while Robertson will line up alongside Ben Woollaston, Liam Highfield and Alex Ursenbacher in group eight next Saturday (June 6).

Each of the 16 group winners will advance to the group winners' stage, which will in turn feed into the tournament finals on Thursday June 11. The total prize fund is in excess of £200,000, with the winner earning £30,000.

In line with government guidelines regarding Covid-19, all players, staff and contractors will be tested before entering the venue, and will be kept in isolation until their results are known.

Players will require a negative test in order to be eligible for the event and a range of other safety measures will be in place.

Robertson, the 2018 European Masters champion, is the world number 24 and reached the quarter-finals of the Gibraltar Open - the last tournament to be played before the coronavirus shutdown back in March.

Davis, ranked 32, is a three-time winner of the Six-Red World Championship and clinched the World Seniors Championship in 2016, as well as reaching the English Open final in 2018.