However, Mark Williams surpassed Perry the following season by winning the 2023 British Open aged 48 years and 194 days.

[5] The defending Welsh Open champion was Jordan Brown, who won the 2021 final with a 9–8 victory over Ronnie O'Sullivan.

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The player accumulating the highest amount of prize money over the eight European Series events received a bonus of £150,000.

[19] She lost 1–4 to Ali Carter in the last 64,[17] but was the first woman to compete in the Welsh Open beyond the qualifying stages,[20] and posted on social media that she was "pleased and proud" of her performance.

[18] In the final match of the round of 64, reigning world champion and second seed Mark Selby faced Liam Highfield.

Selby led in the decider after a break of 40, but then failed to escape from a snooker and left a free ball, allowing Highfield to make a 92 clearance and win 4–3.

[25] In the round of 32, Carter made breaks of 141, 50, 51, 87 and 81 in his 4–2 defeat of seventh seed John Higgins, who had reached every other Home Nations final that season.

[29] Fourth seed Judd Trump defeated Si Jiahui 4–2 after coming from behind to win both the fifth and sixth frames.

[30] Eleventh seed Mark Allen exited the tournament when he lost a late-night deciding frame to Joe Perry.

[12][32] Trump capitalised on errors from his opponent Jimmy Robertson to win the first two frames, making a century break in the second.

Robertson won the third frame and had an opportunity to win the fourth by potting a straightforward pink ball, but missed the shot, allowing Trump to go 3–1 ahead.

Trump closed out the match with his second century of the evening to win 4–1, the ninth time he had beaten Jimmy Robertson in ten encounters.

[38] Perry defeated Wilson 4–1, Neil Robertson beat Woollaston by the same scoreline, and Jack Lisowski whitewashed amateur player Michael White 4–0.

Lisowski won a scrappy seventh frame before making an 82 break in the eighth and a total clearance of 135 in the decider to win the match 5–4 and reach his first ranking event semi-final of the season.

Robertson, however, won both the sixth and seventh frames and had an opportunity to draw level in the eighth, but missed an easy black, allowing Trump to win the match 5–3 and reach his first ranking semi-final of the season.

[45][51][52] Perry cited a match he won over Lee Walker at the Turkish Masters qualifying event where he had played well as a catalyst for his change in form and increase in confidence.

[55][57] Perry stated afterward that he had been suffering from a bad headache during the match that at one point made it difficult to see the balls clearly, calling it "the worst I've ever felt in a game of snooker.

After Trump played a safety shot that left the black on the baulk cushion, Perry won the frame with a long double into the bottom right corner pocket.

Perry won the third with a 59, but missed a red with the rest in the fourth, allowing Trump to tie the scores at 2–2 at the midsession interval.

Perry won a scrappy eighth frame after Trump missed a close-range shot on a straight pink, tying the scores at 4–4 after the afternoon session.

Trump won a 28-minute 10th frame to level at 5–5, but Perry made two half-centuries in the 11th and then a 68 in the 12th to open up a two-frame lead at the midsession interval.

Perry went on to make a break of 70 in the 14th, forcing Trump to lay snookers, but he was unable to obtain any foul points.

The matches involving the top 16 seeds and the two wild card players, Dylan Emery and Liam Davies, were held over and played at the main venue.