A stellar line-up of England internationals has been confirmed by organisers of the Heritage Oil Open.

All four members of the men’s team which won promotion at the World Team Championships – Liam Pitchford, Paul Drinkhall, Danny Reed and Sam Walker – will all compete, and will be joined in the men’s event by Andrew Baggaley, Darius Knight, Chris Doran, David McBeath, Matt Ware, Mike O’Driscoll, Lewis Gray and Helshan Weerasinghe.

The women’s event also includes the four-strong World Team Championships line-up of Joanna Drinkhall, Kelly Sibley, Tin Tin Ho and Hannah Hicks, plus Karina Le Fevre, Maria Tsaptsinos, Emma Vickers and Yolanda King.

The Men’s and Women’s Open events start on Saturday 5th July at 9am at K2 , Crawley. Semi-finals and finals will be played at BT Sport studio on Monday 7th July and will be recorded for TV broadcast, which will be transmitted at a new advertised time of 9pm-11pm on Saturday 12th July on BT Sport.

For more information about the event, please contact Steve Pound ([email protected] Tel 07710 400451).

By Paul Stimpson (June 10th, 2014)