2025 Welsh Open Snooker: Full draw, results, format, schedule, prize money, how to watch

The 2025 Welsh Open takes place at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno between Monday 10th February to Sunday 16th January.

Professional snooker's third longest-running ranking event - only younger than the UK and World Championships - is the final leg of this season's four-pronged Home Nations Series.

This will be the 13th ranking tournament of the 2024/25 World Snooker Tour season.

Cueists compete to lift the Ray Reardon Trophy - the first staging of this event since the six-time world champion's passing in 2024 - and pocket the £100,000 top prize.

On top of that, the destiny of this season's £150,000 BetVictor Home Nations bonus prize will be decided, as too will be the line-up for next month's World Grand Prix in Hong Kong, with this event being the last counting event towards qualification for that on the one-year list.

What is the format and schedule for the 2025 Welsh Open Snooker?

As for all the Home Nations Series events this season, the 2025 Welsh Open features a tiered format, meaning the top 32 seeds all went straight through to the main venue stages and the main draw.

Those seeds have been joined by the 32 players who came through the qualifying rounds held in Barnsley just a few days ago.

All rounds up to and including the last 16 are the best of 7 frames, the quarter-finals are the best of 9 frames, the semi-finals are the best of 11 frames, and the two-session final is the best of 17 frames.

Tournament schedule for the 2025 Welsh Open:

Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th: Round One (Last 64)
Wednesday 12th: Round Two (Last 32)
Thursday 13th: Round Three (Last 16)
Friday 14th: Quarter-Finals
Saturday 15th: Semi-Finals
Sunday 16th: Final

Who is playing at the 2025 Welsh Open Snooker?

A host of star names have entered the 2025 Welsh Open, including defending champion Gary Wilson, and reigning world champion and newly-minted German Masters champion Kyren Wilson.

At the time of writing, Ronnie O'Sullivan is in the draw, but his participation is doubtful.

Fresh from successfully defending the Championship League crown, Mark Selby is expected to be in Llandudno, as too is home hero Mark Williams, who was the last Welshman to win this event on home soil in 1999.

In-form Masters victor Shaun Murphy, former World Champion Luca Brecel, and former world number one Mark Allen are the other top 8 exponents in the schedule.

World number one Judd Trump elected to skip this competition, as too did fellow top 16 member Ding Junhui.

Along with Northern Ireland Open champion Kyren Wilson, English Open champion Neil Robertson, and runner-up in Brentwood and Edinburgh Wu Yize are the leading contenders for the £150k Home Nations bonus.

2025 Welsh Open Snooker: Draw and Results

Round One (Last 64)

Gary Wilson 3-4 Ishpreet Singh Chadha

Jackson Page 4-2 Jimmy Robertson

Tom Ford 4-2 Andrew Higginson

Neil Robertson 4-2 Mark Davis

Pang Junxu 4-2 Dominic Dale

Zhang Anda 4-2 Ross Muir

Noppon Saengkham 4-1 Dylan Emery

Luca Brecel 4-2 Stuart Carrington

Mark Selby 4-2 Haydon Pinhey

Elliot Slessor 4-0 Liam Davies

Si Jiahui 2-4 Jamie Jones

Stuart Bingham 0-4 Robbie Williams

Robert Milkins 4-1 Wang Yuchen

John Higgins 4-0 Graeme Dott

Zhou Yuelong 1-4 Yuan Sijun

Mark Allen 4-3 Stan Moody

Ronnie O'Sullivan o/w Jamie Clarke

Matthew Selt 4-0 Ricky Walden

Chris Wakelin 4-3 Michael Holt

Jack Lisowski 4-0 Joshua Cooper

Wu Yize 4-3 Scott Donaldson

Barry Hawkins 1-4 Sanderson Lam

Stephen Maguire 4-2 Xu Si

Mark Williams 4-1 Florian Nuessle

Shaun Murphy 3-4 Ma Hailong

Ryan Day 4-2 Ben Mertens

Ali Carter 4-0 Rory Thor

Hossein Vafaei 4-2 Fan Zhengyi

David Gilbert 4-3 Jordan Brown

Jak Jones 2-4 Matthew Stevens

Lyu Haotian 0-4 Joe O'Connor

Kyren Wilson 4-3 Marco Fu

Round Two (Last 32)

Chadha 2-4 Page

Ford 4-3 N. Robertson

Pang 4-2 Zhang

Saengkham 2-4 Brecel

Selby 4-3 Slessor

Jamie Jones 4-2 R. Williams

Milkins 0-4 Higgins

Yuan 4-3 Allen

Clarke 3-4 Selt

Wakelin 1-4 Lisowski

Wu 2-4 Lam

Maguire 4-2 M. Williams

Ma 2-4 Day

Carter 4-2 Vafaei

Gilbert 3-4 Stevens

O'Connor 4-3 K. Wilson

Round Three (Last 16)

Page 4-0 Ford

Pang 1-4 Brecel

Selby 4-0 Jamie Jones

Higgins 4-0 Yuan

Selt 2-4 Lisowski

Lam 2-4 Maguire

Day 1-4 Carter

Stevens 1-4 O'Connor

Quarter-Finals

Page 2-5 Brecel

Selby 5-4 Higgins

Lisowski 3-5 Maguire

Carter 5-3 O’Connor

Semi-Finals

Brecel 3-6 Selby

Maguire 6-4 Carter

Final

Selby 9-6 Maguire

2025 WELSH OPEN CHAMPION: MARK SELBY

What is the prize money for the 2025 Welsh Open Snooker?

Champion: £100,000
Runner-up: £45,000
Losing semi-finalists: £21,000 each
Losing quarter-finalists: £13,200 each
Losers in the last 16: £9,000 each
Losers in the last 32: £5,400 each
Losers in the last 64: £3,600 each
Losers in the last 96 (final qualifying round): £1,000 each
Tournament highest break: £5,000
Overall prize fund: £550,400

How can I watch the 2025 Welsh Open Snooker?

UK: BBC Wales, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button
Europe (including UK and Ireland): Eurosport, discovery+
China: CCTV5, Huya.com, Migu, CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel, CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China: Now TV
Malaysia and Brunei: Astro
Philippines: Tap
Taiwan: Sportcast
Thailand: True Sport
All other territories: WST Play