2025 World Open Snooker Qualifying: Draw, results and daily match schedule
One of most lucrative ranking tournaments on the World Snooker Tour - carrying a top prize of £175,000 - 128 players are set to feature in a flat draw format, meaning all contestants start out in the opening round.
Although the televised and main venue stages are once again held in the Far East, the majority of opening round matches will be played at Ponds Forge in Sheffield between December 20th-22nd - the final offering of professional snooker action in 2024. The winners of these matches can then make travel plans for China several weeks later.
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A total of nine first round matches will be held over to the main venue, with the players involved in these ties excused the trip to Sheffield. These games involve Trump, Wilson, O'Sullivan, Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, and the four fixtures with the local amateur wildcards in them.
However, several top 16 stars will still be at Ponds Forge for their opening assignment of the £825,000 competition, including Mark Selby, Mark Allen, Mark Williams, Luca Brecel and Shaun Murphy. It will be a busy time for these players, as they are also due to be at the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship in Saudi Arabia between December 18-20.
This current iteration of the World Open in China was first held on the professional circuit in 2012. Trump has won the last two editions of the event and is currently on a 14-match winning streak in it.
Judd Trump v Xing Zihao - held over
Long Zehuang 5-2 Mitchell Mann
Stephen Maguire 4-5 Alfie Burden
Joe O'Connor 5-3 Alexander Ursenbacher
Paul Deaville 1-5 Antoni Kowalski
Matthew Stevens 5-2 David Grace
Neil Robertson o/w Michael Holt
Martin O'Donnell 5-4 Bulcsu Revesz
Yuan Sijun 5-0 Haydon Pinhey
Hossein Vafaei 5-3 Ben Mertens
Joe Perry 5-0 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Ding Junhui v Jiang Jun - held over
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-3 Andrew Higginson
Stuart Bingham 1-5 Chris Totten
Sanderson Lam v Wildcard - held over
Shaun Murphy 5-3 Mostafa Dorgham
Mark Allen 5-4 Rory Thor
David Lilley v Wildcard - held over
Wu Yize 5-0 Robbie McGuigan
Jackson Page 5-1 Ashley Carty
Ali Carter 5-4 Joshua Thomond
He Guoqiang 5-0 Huang Jiahao
Jack Lisowski 5-3 Julien Leclercq
Scott Donaldson v Wildcard - held over
Ben Woollaston 5-2 Simon Blackwell
David Gilbert 3-5 Amir Sarkhosh
Jamie Jones 5-3 Liam Pullen
Barry Hawkins 5-1 Ka Wai Cheung
Ricky Walden 5-0 Hatem Yassen
Ryan Day 5-1 Marco Fu
Jamie Clarke 1-5 Louis Heathcote
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Stuart Carrington - held over
Mark Selby 5-4 Artemijs Zizins
Liu Hongyu 5-0 Baipat Siripaporn
Elliot Slessor 5-1 Jonas Luz
Lyu Haotian 5-2 Oliver Lines
Si Jiahui 0-5 Zak Surety
Jordan Brown 5-1 Liam Graham
Xiao Guodong 5-0 Dylan Emery
Fan Zhengyi 3-5 Duane Jones
Dominic Dale 4-5 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Tom Ford 5-1 Ahmed Elsayed
Daniel Wells 5-2 Ross Muir
Gary Wilson 5-1 Gong Chenzhi
Jimmy Robertson 5-3 Haris Tahir
Noppon Saengkham 5-1 Dean Young
Aaron Hill 5-0 Mink Nutcharut
Mark Williams 2-5 Sunny Akani
Luca Brecel 5-3 Iulian Boiko
Tian Pengfei 5-1 Bai Yulu
Pang Junxu 5-2 Ken Doherty
Anthony McGill 5-0 Reanne Evans
Zhang Anda v Stan Moody - held over
Graeme Dott 5-1 Jimmy White
Robert Milkins 5-2 Farakh Ajaib
Xu Si v Wildcard - held over
Robbie Williams 5-4 Ian Burns
Jak Jones 5-0 Allan Taylor
Mark Davis 5-4 Liam Davies
John Higgins 5-4 Wang Yuchen
Matthew Selt 2-5 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Zhou Yuelong 5-1 Ma Hailong
Anthony Hamilton 4-5 Lei Peifan
Kyren Wilson v Hammad Miah - held over
Matches in italic bold will be played in China. All other matches listed above will be played in Sheffield. All matches in this round are the best of nine frames with a scheduled mid-session interval after the fourth frame.
Who is playing today on Sunday 22nd December in 2025 World Open Snooker qualifying? Full match schedule:
10:00GMT
- Xiao Guodong v Dylan Emery
- Matthew Selt v Manasawin Phetmalaikul
- Lyu Haotian v Oliver Lines
- Fan Zhengyi v Duane Jones
- Liu Hongyu v Baipat Siripaporn
- David Gilbert v Amir Sarkhosh
14:30GMT
- Mark Selby v Artemijs Zizins
- Luca Brecel v Iulian Bokio
- Pang Junxu v Ken Doherty
- Graeme Dott v Jimmy White
- Mark Williams v Sunny Akani
- Mark Allen v Rory Thor
- Shaun Murphy v Mostafa Dorgham
There will be livestream coverage of the 2025 World Open qualifiers via discovery+, which will feature four tables.
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