The 2019 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2019 Betfred World Snooker Championship) was a professional
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ...
tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2019 at the
Crucible Theatre
The Crucible Theatre, or simply The Crucible, is a theatre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which opened in 1971. Its name refers to crucible steel, which was developed in Sheffield in 1740 and drove the industrialisation of the city.
...
in
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...
, England. It was the 43rd consecutive year the
World Snooker Championship
The World Snooker Championship, or simply known as the World Championship, is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker. It is also the richest event to date with a total prize money of £2,395,000, including ...
had been held at the Crucible, and the 20th and final
ranking
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items, often recorded in a list, such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than", or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak ...
event of the
2018–19 snooker season
The 2018–19 snooker season was a series of professional snooker tournaments played between 10 May 2018 and 23 June 2019. The season was made up of ranking tournaments, non-ranking tournaments and variant tournaments. In tota ...
. Qualifying for the tournament took place from 10 to 17 April 2019 at the
English Institute of Sport
The UK Sports Institute,https://uksportsinstitute.co.uk/who-we-are/uk-sports-institute/ previously known as the English Institute of Sport (EIS), established in May 2002, is an organisation which provides sport science and medical support servi ...
in Sheffield. Sports betting company
Betfred
Betfred Group Holdings Limited is a bookmaker based in the United Kingdom, founded by Fred Done.Pronounced to rhyme with "bone". It was first established as a single betting shop in Ordsall, Salford, in 1967. Its turnover in 2004 was reported ...
sponsored the event.
The winner of the title was
Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and the current List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is currently in ...
, who defeated
John Higgins
John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...
18–9 in the final to claim his first World Championship. In doing so, Trump became the 11th player to win all three
Triple Crown titles at least once. Defending champion
Mark Williams lost 9–13 to
David Gilbert in the second round of the tournament. For the first time in the history of the World Snooker Championship, an amateur player appeared at the main stage of the event—debutant
James Cahill defeated world number one
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player. Widely recognised as one of the most talented and accomplished players in snooker history, he has won the World Snooker Championship seven times, a m ...
in the first round, before being narrowly defeated by
Stephen Maguire
Stephen Maguire (born 13 March 1981) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won six major ranking tournaments, including the 2004 UK Championship, and has twice since reached the finals of that event. Maguire turned professional in ...
in a second round deciding .
The tournament featured 100
century break
In snooker, a century break (also century, sometimes called a ton) is a of 100 points or more, compiled in one to the table. A century break requires potting at least 25 consecutive balls, and the ability to score centuries is regarded as a m ...
s; at the time, this was the highest number recorded at an official snooker event (superseded at the
2021 World Championship). The final match alone included 11 centuries, the most ever scored in the final of a ranking event. Higgins compiled the highest break, a 143, in his semi-final win over Gilbert.
Shaun Murphy
Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...
defeated
Luo Honghao
Luo Honghao (; born 31 January 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur
In July 2017, he reached the final of 2017 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship where he lost the final 7–6 to Fan Zhengyi.
Later ...
in the first round 10–0, the first
whitewash
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at the World Championship since
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
.
Background
The
World Snooker Championship
The World Snooker Championship, or simply known as the World Championship, is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker. It is also the richest event to date with a total prize money of £2,395,000, including ...
is an annual
cue sport
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Event markers
* Sensory cue, in perception (experimental psychology)
** Cueing (medicine), rehabilitation techniques for Parkinson's disease patients to improve walking
* Cue (theatrical), the trigger for an action to be c ...
tournament and the official
world championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...
of the game of
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ...
.
Founded in the late 19th century by
British Army
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soldiers stationed in India,
the sport was popular in the
British Isles
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.
However, in the modern era it has become increasingly popular worldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asian nations such as
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
,
Hong Kong
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and
Thailand
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.
The championship features 32 professional and qualified amateur players competing in one-on-one snooker matches in a
single elimination
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...
format, each played over several . The 32 competitors in the main tournament are selected using a combination of the top players in the world snooker rankings and a pre-tournament qualification stage.
Joe Davis
Joseph Davis (15 April 190110 July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game is ...
won
the first World Championship in 1927, the final match being held in
Camkin's Hall
William Alexander Camkin (1894 – 26 April 1956) was an English billiard hall owner who came to prominence in the early years of the World Snooker Championship, when many of the tournament's matches were held at his clubs.
He was involved in ...
,
Birmingham
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, England.
Since 1977, the event has been held in the
Crucible Theatre
The Crucible Theatre, or simply The Crucible, is a theatre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which opened in 1971. Its name refers to crucible steel, which was developed in Sheffield in 1740 and drove the industrialisation of the city.
...
in Sheffield, England.
,
Stephen Hendry
Stephen Gordon Hendry (born 13 January 1969) is a Scottish retired professional snooker player and a current Sports commentator, commentator and pundit. One of the most successful players in snooker history, he turned professional in 1985, ag ...
and
Ronnie O’Sullivan are the event's most successful participants in the modern era, having both won the championship seven times.
The
2018 World Championship had been won by Welsh professional player
Mark Williams, who defeated Scotland's
John Higgins
John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...
18–16 in the final.
This was Williams' third world title, having won the championship in 2000 and 2003. The winner of the 2019 tournament earned prize money of
£500,000, from a total pool of £2,231,000.
The title sponsor of the event was sports betting company
Betfred
Betfred Group Holdings Limited is a bookmaker based in the United Kingdom, founded by Fred Done.Pronounced to rhyme with "bone". It was first established as a single betting shop in Ordsall, Salford, in 1967. Its turnover in 2004 was reported ...
,
who had sponsored the World Snooker Championship every year since 2015 (having previously sponsored the event from 2009 to 2012).
Format
The 2019 World Snooker Championship took place between 20 April and 6May 2019 in
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...
, England. The tournament was the last of twenty ranking events in the
2018/2019 season on the
World Snooker Tour
The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. It is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, ...
. It featured a 32-player main draw that was held at the Crucible Theatre, as well as a 128-player qualifying draw that was played at the
English Institute of Sport
The UK Sports Institute,https://uksportsinstitute.co.uk/who-we-are/uk-sports-institute/ previously known as the English Institute of Sport (EIS), established in May 2002, is an organisation which provides sport science and medical support servi ...
from 10 to 17 April 2019, finishing three days before the start of the main draw. This was the 43rd consecutive year the tournament was held at the Crucible, and the 51st consecutive year the championship was contested using the modern knockout format.
The top 16 players in the latest
world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as
seeded players. Defending champion Mark Williams was automatically seeded first overall. The remaining 15 seeds were allocated based on the latest world rankings, which were released after the
China Open China Open may refer to:
*China Open (snooker), a professional snooker tournament
*China Open (tennis), a professional tennis tournament on the ATP World Tour and WTA Tour
*China Open (badminton), an annual badminton tournament
* China Open (squash) ...
, the penultimate event of the season. Matches in the first round of the main draw were played as the best of 19 frames. The number of frames required to win a match increased progressively with each successive round, leading up to the final match which was played as the best of 35 frames.
All 16 non-seeded spots in the main draw were filled with players who had advanced through the qualifying rounds. There were 128 players in the qualifying draw, which comprised 106 of the remaining 112 players on the World Snooker Tour, as well as 22
wildcard places allotted to non-tour players. These invited players included the
women's world champion and the
European junior champion. As with the main draw, half of the participants in the qualifying draw were seeded players; those ranked from 17th to 80th in the world rankings were allocated one of 64 seeds in order of their ranking, while the other competitors were placed randomly into the draw. To reach the main draw at the Crucible, players needed to win three best-of-19-frames qualifying matches.
Participant summary
Eight
former world champions participated in the main tournament at the Crucible. They were
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player. Widely recognised as one of the most talented and accomplished players in snooker history, he has won the World Snooker Championship seven times, a m ...
(five titles:
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
,
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
,
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
,
2012
2012 was designated as:
*International Year of Cooperatives
*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
Events January
*January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins.
* January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
,
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
), John Higgins (four titles:
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
,
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
,
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
,
2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
), Mark Williams (defending champion, three titles:
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
,
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
, 2018),
Mark Selby
Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Ranked List of world number one snooker players, world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 24 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all ...
(three titles:
2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
,
2017
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
),
Shaun Murphy
Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...
(one title:
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
),
Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship ...
(one title:
2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
),
Neil Robertson
Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He ...
(one title:
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
), and
Stuart Bingham
Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner.
Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his pro ...
(one title:
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
).
This was O'Sullivan's 27th consecutive appearance in the final stages of the World Championship since his debut in
1993
The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
, equalling Stephen Hendry's record for consecutive appearances, and three short of
Steve Davis
Steve Davis (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a Sports commentator, commentator, DJ, electronic musician and author. He dominated professional snooker in the 1980s, when he reached eight ...
's overall record of 30 appearances. Four other former World Championship finalists also competed:
Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...
(twice: 2008 and 2012),
Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and the current List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is currently in ...
(once: 2011),
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, ...
(once: 2013), and
Ding Junhui
Ding Junhui (; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 15 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005 ...
(once: 2016).
The youngest player to participate in the main stage of the tournament was
Luo Honghao
Luo Honghao (; born 31 January 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur
In July 2017, he reached the final of 2017 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship where he lost the final 7–6 to Fan Zhengyi.
Later ...
at 19 years of age,
while 46-year-old
Mark Davis was the oldest; both players entered the main draw through qualifying.
Three former world champions participated in the qualifying rounds:
Ken Doherty
Kenneth Joseph Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player who also works as a commentator and pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. From Ranelagh in Dublin, he is the sport's only World Snooker Championship, wor ...
(
1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
),
Peter Ebdon
Peter David Ebdon (born 27 August 1970) is an English retired professional snooker player who is a former world champion and current coach. Ebdon won nine ranking titles during his career, placing him in joint 14th position (with John Parrott ...
(
2002
The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...
) and Graeme Dott (2006). Of these, only Dott succeeded in qualifying for the main tournament at the Crucible. Also, four former World Championship finalists participated in the qualifying rounds:
Jimmy White
James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his swift and attacking style of play, White has reached six World Snooker Championship finals ...
(six times: 1984 and 1990–1994),
Nigel Bond
Nigel Bond (born 15 November 1965) is an English retired professional snooker player.
Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 ...
(once:
1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
),
Matthew Stevens
Matthew John Stevens (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other t ...
(twice: 2000 and 2005), and Ali Carter (twice: 2008 and 2012).
Of these, only Carter qualified for the main tournament at the Crucible.
Prize fund
The total purse for the event was greater than for any prior snooker tournament. For the first time the total prize pool was over £2 million, with the winner being awarded £500,000.
The breakdown of prize money was:
* Winner:
£500,000
* Runner-up: £200,000
* Semi-final: £100,000
* Quarter-final: £50,000
* Last 16: £30,000
* Last 32: £20,000
* Last 48: £15,000
* Last 80: £10,000
* Main stage highest break: £10,000
* Qualifying stage highest break: £1,000
* Total: £2,231,000
The prize for a
maximum break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a onefourseven) is the highest possible in snooker in normal circumstances and is a special type of . A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, fo ...
in the main stage was £50,000.
Tournament summary
Qualifying rounds
The top 16
seeds
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automatically qualified for the competition's main draw.
The defending champion Mark Williams was seeded first, whilst other seeds were allocated based on the
world rankings following the China Open.
The remaining players competed in the preliminary qualifying rounds, and were required to win three best-of-19-frames matches to reach the main stage of the championship.
The qualifying rounds took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield between 10 and 17 April 2019, with 16 players progressing to the main stage at the Crucible Theatre. A total of 128 players competed in the qualifying stage, including those tour players not automatically qualified for the main draw, as well as invited amateurs.
James Cahill became the first amateur player ever to qualify for the Crucible main stage of the World Championship, defeating fellow amateur
Michael Judge
Michael Judge (born 12 June 1975 in Dublin) is a former professional snooker player from Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest ranking, 24th, f ...
10–6 in the third qualifying round.
Seven players—the largest number since
1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
Events January
* January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers.
* January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
—advanced through the qualifying rounds to make their debuts at the main stage of the tournament. Besides Cahill, they were
Scott Donaldson
Scott Donaldson (born 19 March 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Donaldson turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Snooker Championship and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 ...
,
Michael Georgiou
Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British-Greek Cypriots, Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooke ...
(The first ever Cypriot to play at the crucible),
Li Hang, Luo Honghao,
Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei (; born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed o ...
and
Zhao Xintong
Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player and the reigning World Snooker Champion. He first turned professional in the 2016–17 season, aged 19, having previously recorded wins against a number of top p ...
.
The 2006 World Champion Graeme Dott and two-time finalist Ali Carter also qualified.
Marco Fu
Marco Fu Ka-chun (; born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian Goldfie ...
failed to reach the main draw of the competition for the first time since 2004.
First round
The draw for the first round of the championship was made on 18 April 2019, the day after the conclusion of the qualifying rounds and two days before the start of the main event. The matches were drawn by World Snooker chairman
Barry Hearn
Barry Maurice William Hearn (born 19 June 1948) is an English sports promoter who is founder and president of Matchroom Sport. Through Matchroom, Hearn is also involved in many sports including boxing, snooker, darts, pool, tenpin bowling, gol ...
and 1991 World Champion
John Parrott
John Stephen Parrott (born 11 May 1964) is an English former professional snooker player who won the 1991 World Snooker Championship. He came to prominence in the mid to late 1980s, and remained within the top 16 of the world rankings for 14 ...
.
The first round of the championship took place between 20 and 25 April 2019. All first round matches were played over two sessions as best-of-19 frames.
Top half
The tournament began with defending champion Mark Williams (seeded one) drawing qualifier
Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English former professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began ...
.
Both sessions of this first match were played on the opening day of the event. Gould won the first frame with a break of 64, before Williams took the next five with breaks of 55, 54 and 129, to lead 5–1.
Gould won frames seven and eight, but Williams took the session's final frame with a break of 97 to lead 6–3.
Williams opened up a lead in frame ten, before Gould made a to force a . However, Williams potted the black to go ahead 7–3.
Gould then won frame 11, but Williams claimed the next two frames to open up a five-frame lead, at 9–4.
Despite Gould responding with breaks of 70, 87 and 76, to reduce his deficit to 7–9, Williams clinched the 17th frame to win the match 10–7.
After his victory, Williams complained that World Snooker had not allowed his 12-year-old son backstage before the match, which the governing body denied.
Event debutant Luo Honghao was drawn against 13th seed Shaun Murphy. Finishing 10–0 to Murphy, the match was a
whitewash
Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, asbestis or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime ( calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2) or chalk (calcium carbonate, CaCO3), sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are sometimes ...
, only the second ever to be witnessed at the Crucible (the first being John Parrott's defeat of
Eddie Charlton
Edward Francis Charlton (31 October 1929 – 7 November 2004) was an Australian professional snooker and billiards player. He remains the only player to have been world championship runner-up in both snooker and billiards without winning e ...
in the first round of the
1992 championship).
Luo accumulated just 89 points during the entire match, the lowest number of points ever scored in a World Championship match, and more than 100 fewer than the previous record low of 191 scored by
Danny Fowler
Danny Fowler (born 30 July 1956 in Worksop) is an English former professional snooker player.
Early life
Danny Fowler was born on 30 July 1956 in Worksop. Fowler played snooker recreationally from the age of 15 to 20, but then stopped playing ...
when he lost 1–10 to Stephen Hendry in the
1993 championship.
Fourth seed Neil Robertson met qualifier, Michael Georgiou, in the first round. At the conclusion of the initial session, Georgiou was 0–9 behind, having scored even fewer points than Luo in the first nine frames of the match. However, he won frame ten on the resumption of play in the second session, with a break of 90, thus avoiding both the whitewash and the lowest points total. Robertson later won the match 10–1 to progress to the second round.
Fifth seed
John Higgins
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played qualifier Mark Davis, who had won six of the pair's last seven encounters.
Higgins took a 6–3 lead after the first session, but then spent the night in
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because his brother Jason had fallen down some stairs at the venue and fractured his kneecap. Higgins won the match 10–7 the following day.
Two former world champions, 12th seed Stuart Bingham (2015 winner) and qualifier Graeme Dott (2006 winner), met in the first round of the competition. Bingham led 8–1 after the first session, and later 9–4, before Dott won five frames to level the match at 9–9. Bingham won the deciding frame after Dott missed a simple shot on the .
After the match, Dott explained that "serious sleeping problems" had caused him difficulties while playing.
Bottom half
The first round match between 14th seed
Luca Brecel
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and qualifier
Gary Wilson, which featured a large amount of tactical play, was suspended when the afternoon session overran, with Wilson leading 9–8.
On resuming that evening, Brecel won frame 18 to send the match to a deciding frame. After first requiring a
re-rack, this frame lasted for 79 minutes and 31 seconds, setting the record for the longest frame ever played at the Crucible (breaking the previous record set in 2016 by Mark Selby and
Marco Fu
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by more than three minutes) which Wilson won.
Tenth seed Ding Junhui played qualifier
Anthony McGill
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. After leading 6–3 overnight, Ding won the match 10–7 to progress to the second round.
Having lost eight of his previous 15 first round matches at the Crucible, 15th seed
Stephen Maguire
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played event debutant Tian Pengfei. In frame 17, Maguire was 7–9 down and needed a on the colours to stay in the match. He snookered Tian on the , but then missed a difficult shot to a corner; however, on rebounding from the pocket, the blue hit the and went into the other baulk pocket. Maguire later described this fluke as "just outrageous" and admitted he "got lucky".
He added and black to steal the frame, and then took the next two frames to win the match 10–9.
Three-time former world champion and third seed, Mark Selby, played debutant Zhao Xintong. Despite trailing 1–5 after the first six frames, Selby won nine of the next eleven frames, with two breaks of 131, to win 10–7.
Amateur player James Cahill drew the world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan, who had reached the finals of the other
Triple Crown events earlier in the season. Cahill finished the first session with a 5–4 lead, and then went ahead 8–5 in the second session before O'Sullivan levelled the match at 8–8.
Cahill missed a straightforward shot on a after compiling an early break in frame 17; however, despite needing only the final pink and black to win, O'Sullivan missed the pink, allowing Cahill to clinch the frame. With a break of 56 in the next frame, Cahill won the match 10–8 to secure a place in the second round.
This was Cahill's second win over the top-ranked player in the season, having defeated Mark Selby in the first round of the
UK Championship
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five months earlier.
Afterwards, O'Sullivan indicated that he had been unwell during the match, but former world champion Ken Doherty accused him of "playing too casually".
Second round
The last 16 players in the competition took part in the second round, which was played between 25 and 29 April, with matches completed over three sessions as best of 25 frames. Fourth seed Neil Robertson played 13th seed Shaun Murphy. The first session of the match featured a
maximum break
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attempt by Murphy;
with just two red balls remaining, he asked for the
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between the tables to be lifted, allowing the spectators in the other half of the auditorium to watch his attempt at a maximum, but he failed to finish it.
Prior to this dramatic turn of events, Robertson had won the first three frames of the match, without Murphy attempting a pot. Robertson led 5–3 after the first session and 10–6 after the second.
He later won the first three frames of the final session to win the match 13–6.
Post-match, Murphy called Robertson "just too good" and "unplayable".

Defending champion Mark Williams played 16th seed David Gilbert. After the first session, with Gilbert leading 5–3,
Williams said he had been feeling chest pains during play.
He was taken to
Northern General Hospital
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overnight but returned the following morning for the second session of the match.
He later tied the match 7–7, but was trailing again 7–9 after the second session.
Gilbert then won the first four frames of the final session to win the match 13–9.
Amateur player James Cahill drew 15th seed Stephen Maguire. After the first two sessions, Maguire was ahead 5–3 and 9–7,
but Cahill then took three of the first four frames in the third session to level the match at 10–10. He also won frame 21, to take the lead for the first time in the match, but Maguire drew level in the following frame.
Both players missed shots in frame 23, with Cahill looking to win the frame before being penalised for a , and later going from a , allowing Maguire to pull ahead again 12–11. Cahill won frame 24, after Maguire missed a by a wide margin,
taking the match to a deciding frame. Maguire won the decider, and the match, 13–12.
Three-time world champion Mark Selby played qualifier Gary Wilson. Despite trailing 3–5 after the first session, Selby won four of the first five frames in the second session to lead 7–6; however, Wilson took the last three frames of the session to lead 9–7.
Selby later tied the match at 10–10, before Wilson won three consecutive frames to secure a place in the quarter-finals.
Two former world champions, fifth seed John Higgins and 12th seed Stuart Bingham, met in the second round. Bingham took an early 4–1 lead, but Higgins won the remaining frames of the first session, with a 132 break in the eighth, to level at 4–4.
The second session was even, with no more than two frames separating the players, and the match was tied again at 8–8 and 11–11. In frame 23, Bingham missed a on two reds, allowing Higgins to claim the next two frames and the match, 13–11.
Bingham described the close-fought encounter as a "good battle" and Higgins admitted he was "over the moon" to have won.
Ninth seed and 2013 runner-up, Barry Hawkins, played eighth seed Kyren Wilson.
This match included nine century breaks, setting a new record for the second round of the championships.
Hawkins made four century breaks of 105, 130, 136, and 137 during the first session, including a maximum break attempt;
Wilson also compiled a century in frame five. With four frames in a row ending with a 100+ break, this was the first time since the 1999 semi-final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry that four centuries had been compiled in consecutive frames in a World Championship match.
After winning the first four frames of the match, Hawkins ended the first session with a 6–2 lead.
Wilson won the second session of the match 5–3, to trail 7–9,
before twice drawing level at 9–9 and 10–10 in the final session.
Despite Hawkins pulling ahead, at 10–9 and 11–10, Wilson won the last three frames of the match to progress to the next round, 13–11.
Zhou Yuelong played Ali Carter in the only all-qualifier encounter of the second round. Zhou took four of the first five frames to lead 4–1, then led 5–3 after the first session, and held the lead at 9–7 after the second. On resuming the match in the final session, Carter won six straight frames to progress 13–9.
Two former world finalists, Judd Trump and Ding Junhui, met in the second round. Trump took an early 5–1 lead in the first session, but Ding won eight of the next ten frames to lead 9–7 before the final session. Trump then took six frames in a row, including breaks of 93, 79, 54 and 103, to win the match 13–9.
Quarter-finals
The quarter-finals took place on 30 April and 1May, and like the previous round, matches were played as best of 25 frames across three sessions. Ali Carter played Gary Wilson in an all-qualifier match. Despite this being his first World Championship quarter-final, and after losing the first three frames of the match, Wilson won five straight frames to lead 5–3 after the first session.
The pair shared the second session, with both players winning four frames, bringing the score to 9–7 ahead of the final session.
Carter won two of the next three frames, including a break of 128, to trail 9–10, before Wilson won the next three to progress 13–9.
Post-match, Carter said, "You have to take your hat off to
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I did not think he could play that good," noting that despite Wilson's low ranking of 32 "
ehas to be the favourite to win it now, the way he has been playing."
The
2019 Masters champion, Judd Trump, played 15th seed Stephen Maguire. Having won six straight frames to conclude his second-round match against Ding Junhui, Trump won another six consecutive frames at the start of this match, scoring breaks of 131, 67, 106, 78 and 101, to lead 7–1 after the first session.
He looked set to win the match in the second session without needing to play the third, extending his lead to 9–1. However, Maguire won four of the remaining frames, to trail 5–11 by the end of the session.
Trump won the match 13–6, after just three frames of the final session.
Maguire was fined £250 for swearing in a post-match
press conference
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when he was asked to summarise his performance in the match.
Eighth seed Kyren Wilson played 16th seed David Gilbert. The pair had met earlier in the season, in the final of the
2019 German Masters
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, where Wilson had won the tournament 9–7.
The two players shared the opening session of their quarter-final, 4–4; Gilbert then won six of the eight frames in the second session to lead 10–6 overnight.
Wilson won two of the first three frames of the final session to trail 8–11, but Gilbert took the next two frames to win the match 13–8.
Four-time world champion John Higgins played fourth seed Neil Robertson in the last of the quarter-finals. Robertson took an early 3–1 lead, but Higgins tied the match at 4–4.
Robertson pulled away to 7–4 at the start of the second session, before Higgins won five frames in a row to take a 9–7 lead.
After sharing the first six frames of the final session, Higgins won the match 13–10, with a century break of 101 in the next frame, to progress to the semi-finals.
Semi-finals
The two semi-finals were played from 2to 5May, with the matches spread over four sessions as best of 33 frames. The first semi-final pitted four-time champion John Higgins against David Gilbert, who had never previously progressed past the second round of the championships.
Higgins won the first two frames, but Gilbert tied the match at 2–2, with the help of a 94 break.
Higgins then took a 3–2 lead, before Gilbert claimed the last three frames of the session, including a maximum break attempt, potting 15 red balls but failing a on the , to lead 5–3.
Gilbert won the first three frames of the second session, including a 125 break, to increase his lead to 8–3.
He was ahead 56–17 in frame 12 but missed a pink into a , allowing Higgins to clear the table and clinch the frame.
Higgins also won the next two frames, compiling breaks of 67, 52 and 58, to trail 6–8;
however, Gilbert took the final two frames of the session to lead 10–6.
Pundit
John Virgo
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After turning professional in 1976, Virgo won four professional titles, including the 1979 UK Championship, the 1980 Bombay Int ...
reflected that Higgins was "not with it", whilst six-time champion Steve Davis called Higgins' performance "ridiculous".
When the match resumed for the third session, a crowd member was ejected from the auditorium for shouting out immediately after the shot in the initial frame; Gilbert took the frame, increasing his lead to 11–6.
Higgins won two of the next three frames to stay four behind at 8–12.
He then compiled a 143 break, the highest of the tournament, in frame 21; this was also the 86th century break of the championship so far, tying the record for the number of centuries in a World Snooker Championship, set in 2015.
Gilbert won the next frame, falling short of a century, with a break of 91.
Higgins then won the final two frames of the session to reduce his deficit to 11–13.
Gilbert took the initial frame of the fourth (and final) session, but Higgins, having not led the match since mid-way through the first session, won the next four frames to go ahead 15–14.
Gilbert then restored his lead by winning the next two frames, before Higgins scored a 139 break to level the score at 16–16, forcing a decider. Higgins won the final frame and the match after Gilbert missed the black ball from the spot.
Both players gave emotional press conferences afterward, with Gilbert commenting, "I have never won anything, I have come close but this is the best couple of weeks I have had in my snooker career by a mile. It might be the closest I will come to winning the World Championship."
Higgins apologized for his poor play during the match, and for bringing Gilbert "down to
islevel" in the first three sessions.
Judd Trump faced qualifier, Gary Wilson, in the second semi-final. They shared the opening session, 4–4, but Wilson later took a 6–5 lead with a break of 65. Trump won the next three frames with breaks of 73, 123 and 75, to lead 9–6,
before Wilson compiled a 77 break, bringing the score to 9–7 after the first two sessions.
Wilson won frame 17 with a break of 50;
however, Trump took the next three frames, including a break of 114, which was the 87th century of the tournament (overtaking the previous all-time record of centuries compiled at any World Snooker Championship).
Trump was 14–10 ahead at the end of the third session.
Wilson won the first frame of the final session, but Trump claimed the next three to win the match 17–11.
Afterwards, Trump suggested that neither he nor Higgins had played particularly well in their respective semi-final matches, despite their both reaching the final.
Wilson, ranked 30 in the world, said Judd deserved to win, but he commented on the poor playing conditions, saying: "I wasn't good enough... but I've got to say that table is disgusting. It's running off all over the place, you're getting square bounces, kicks every other shot."
Final

The final was played over four sessions on 5and 6May, as a best-of-35-frames match. It was a repeat of the
2011 World Championship final between John Higgins and Judd Trump, when Higgins won the match 18–15 to claim his fourth world title.
To reach the 2019 final, Higgins had defeated Mark Davis, Stuart Bingham, Neil Robertson and David Gilbert, while Trump had defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, Ding Junhui, Stephen Maguire and Gary Wilson. This was Higgins' third consecutive World Championship final (having been defeated by Mark Selby in 2017 and Mark Williams in 2018), and his eighth overall.
Higgins had previously won the World Snooker Championship four times (in 1998, 2007, 2009 and 2011). This was Trump's second world final, his first being the 2011 loss to Higgins.
Trump won the first two frames of the opening session, with breaks of 51 and 63.
Higgins replied with a break of 139 to trail 1–2, before Trump scored a century of his own, a 105, to take a two-frame lead at the first mid-session interval. Breaks of 69, 34, 40 and 101 allowed Higgins to accumulate 244 unanswered points, claiming three consecutive frames to lead 4–3.
Trump then tied the match at 4–4 by compiling the fourth century of the session.
At the beginning of the nine-frame evening session, Higgins compiled a break of 125, the third consecutive century of the match, to move ahead 5–4. Trump won the remaining eight frames of the session, including breaks of 135 and 114,
to lead by seven frames overnight, 12–5. Steve Davis commented on the session: "I've seen some astonishing snooker here, a lot of it from Ronnie O'Sullivan, but that was a different type of astonishing. I am a little bit in shock. He is making a lot of very difficult shots seem very easy."
The third session opened with an attempt at a maximum break from Higgins, who potted 14 reds and 14 blacks before running out of position for the final red; he played a full-table double to pot the red ball, but then missed the following black. He also won frame 19, to trail 7–12, but Trump took the next three to extend his lead to 15–7.
[ Higgins won the next two frames, which prevented the match from concluding with a session to spare. Trump attempted a maximum break of his own in frame 25, but he a red into the middle pocket.] Going into the evening session with a 16–9 lead, Trump won two straight frames to win the match 18–9 and claim the 2019 world title. This was the largest margin of victory in a World Championship final since 2009
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, when Higgins defeated Shaun Murphy by the same scoreline.
With eleven centuries between the two players, the final set the record for the most 100+ breaks in a single match, one more than the previous record held by Alan McManus
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and Ding Junhui in the semi-final of the 2016 World Championship. After the final, Higgins praised Trump's performance saying, "I was the lucky one to not have to pay for a ticket, he was just awesome." BBC pundit Steve Davis commented, "The standard in that final may have been the greatest we have ever seen and Judd Trump was at the heart of it." This was Trump's second Triple Crown title of the season after winning the Masters
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in January.
Main draw
Numbers given in brackets after players' names show the seedings for the top 16 players in the competition. The sole amateur player in the championship is indicated with (a).
Qualifying
Qualifying for the 2019 World Snooker Championship took place from 10 to 17 April 2019 at the English Institute of Sport
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in Sheffield, using a 12-table set-up. Starting with a pool of 128 players, the qualifying competition consisted of three knock-out rounds, with all matches played over two sessions as best of 19 frames. The 16 winners of the third round matches progressed to the main stages of the tournament at the Crucible Theatre.
The tour players (ranked outside the top-16) were joined by wildcard amateur players who achieved success through the WPBSA
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qualifying criteria:
* 2018–19 Challenge Tour
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—top four ranked players: Brandon Sargeant
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Sargeant earned his place on the main tour after finishing top of the Challenge Tour 2018/2019 ranking list, earning him a two-year card for the 201 ...
, David Grace, Mitchell Mann
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, David Lilley
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* EBSA European U-21 / U-18 Championship 2019 semi-finalists: Jackson Page
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, Aaron Hill, Ross Bulman, Dylan Emery
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The winner of the 2021 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships, he defeated Julien Leclercq in the final, 5–2. As a result of this win, he earned a place o ...
, Florian Nüßle
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* World Women's Snooker Tour—top two ranked players: Ng On-yee
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, Reanne Evans
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* World Seniors Snooker Tour—top ranked player: Johnathan Bagley
* African champion: Mostafa Dorgham
* Americas champion: Igor Figueiredo
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* Oceania champion: Adam Lilley
* CBSA nomination: Pang Junxu
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* Decided by WPBSA: Farakh Ajaib
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, James Cahill, Adam Duffy
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, Andy Hicks
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, Luke Simmonds
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, Michael Judge
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Players ranked 17 to 80 in the 2018/2019 world rankings were seeded 1to 64 in qualifying. The remaining tour players plus the invited amateurs were drawn randomly. There were 64 matches in the first round of qualifying. Each match was played between a seeded and a non-seeded player.
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, CHN , RD1-score13= 10
, RD1-seed14= , RD1-team14= {{flagathlete, Basem Eltahhan
Basem Abdullah Eltahhan (born 17 August 1982 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian former professional snooker player. Eltahhan turned professional in 2017 winning the African Championship.
Career
In 2017, Eltahhan beat fellow countryman Wael Tal ...
, EGY , RD1-score14= 0
, RD1-seed15= 48 , RD1-team15= {{flagathlete, Rory McLeod, ENG , RD1-score15= 8
, RD1-seed16= , RD1-team16= {{flagathlete, David Grace, ENG , RD1-score16= 10
, RD1-seed17= 41 , RD1-team17= {{flagathlete, Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album, ''Life thru a Lens'', was re ...
, ENG , RD1-score17= 10
, RD1-seed18= , RD1-team18= {{flagathlete, Sam Baird
Sam Baird (born 17 June 1988) is an English former professional snooker player. He first entered the professional tour for the 2009/10 season, by winning the EBSA Pro-Ticket Tour Play-offs.
Career 2011/2012 season
Baird reached the main draw o ...
, ENG , RD1-score18= 8
, RD1-seed19= 24 , RD1-team19= {{flagathlete, Marco Fu
Marco Fu Ka-chun (; born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian Goldfie ...
, HKG , RD1-score19= 7
, RD1-seed20= , RD1-team20= {{flagathlete, Luo Honghao
Luo Honghao (; born 31 January 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur
In July 2017, he reached the final of 2017 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship where he lost the final 7–6 to Fan Zhengyi.
Later ...
, CHN , RD1-score20= 10
, RD1-seed21= 56 , RD1-team21= {{flagathlete, Sam Craigie
Sam Craigie (born 29 December 1993) is an English professional snooker player from Newcastle. He enjoyed a successful junior career before turning professional in 2011.
Career
Early career
Craigie qualified for the 2011/2012 Main Tour after ...
, ENG , RD1-score21= 10
, RD1-seed22= , RD1-team22= {{flagathlete, Rhys Clark, SCO , RD1-score22= 2
, RD1-seed23= 9 , RD1-team23= {{flagathlete, Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched Tom Ford (brand), his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Sai ...
, ENG , RD1-score23= 10
, RD1-seed24= , RD1-team24= {{flagathlete, Ross Muir
Ross Muir (born 6 October 1995 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2013 after graduating from event two of Q School, defeating David Morris 4–0 in the final round.
Career Junior career
Muir ha ...
, SCO , RD1-score24= 3
, RD1-seed25= 40 , RD1-team25= {{flagathlete, Sunny Akani
Akani Songsermsawad (; born 10 September 1995), better known as Sunny Akani, is a Thai professional snooker player.
Career Early career
Akani, a regular in amateur Thai snooker events since 2011, first came to international attention with a 5–2 ...
, THA , RD1-score25= 10
, RD1-seed26= , RD1-team26= {{flagathlete, Chen Zifan
Chen Zifan (; born 17 September 1995) is a Chinese professional snooker player who, in 2023, received a five-year ban from professional competition after committing match-fixing offences.
In December 2022, Chen was suspended from the professio ...
, CHN , RD1-score26= 6
, RD1-seed27= 25 , RD1-team27= {{flagathlete, Robert Milkins
Robert Milkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since regaining a tour card in 1998.
Milkins reached a career high rank of 12 in 2014 and 2023, ...
, ENG , RD1-score27= 10
, RD1-seed28= , RD1-team28= {{flagathlete, Luke Simmonds
Luke Simmonds (born 7 December 1979) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career Early career
Simmonds won the World Under-21 Championship in Malta in 1998, defeating Robert Murphy 11–2 in the final, before beating Ryan Day 11� ...
, ENG , RD1-score28= 4
, RD1-seed29= 57 , RD1-team29= {{flagathlete, Duane Jones
Duane Lionel Jones (April 11, 1937July 22, 1988) was an American actor. He was best known for his lead role as Ben in the 1968 horror film ''Night of the Living Dead''. He was later director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New ...
, WAL , RD1-score29= 10
, RD1-seed30= , RD1-team30= {{flagathlete, Kishan Hirani
Kishan H. Hirani (born 2 June 1992) is a Welsh retired professional snooker player.
Career
Hirani qualified for his first professional tournament in the 2017 Paul Hunter Classic, winning three matches. He played Chris Wakelin in the first round ...
, WAL , RD1-score30= 5
, RD1-seed31= 8 , RD1-team31= {{flagathlete, Anthony McGill
Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus.
McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He ...
, SCO , RD1-score31= 10
, RD1-seed32= , RD1-team32= {{flagathlete, Ashley Hugill
Ashley Hugill (born 28 September 1994 in York, Yorkshire) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Hugill came through the 2017 Q School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2017– ...
, ENG , RD1-score32= 8
, RD1-seed33= 5 , RD1-team33= {{flagathlete, Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship ...
, SCO , RD1-score33= 10
, RD1-seed34= , RD1-team34= {{flagathlete, Hamza Akbar, PAK , RD1-score34= 2
, RD1-seed35= 60 , RD1-team35= {{flagathlete, Xu Si
Xu Si (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Xu Si first started playing snooker aged 12 at his local club in Jieyang during the school holidays. After a few weeks he became determined to become a snooker pla ...
, CHN , RD1-score35= 10
, RD1-seed36= , RD1-team36= {{flagathlete, Sean O'Sullivan, ENG , RD1-score36= 2
, RD1-seed37= 28 , RD1-team37= {{flagathlete, Stuart Carrington
Stuart Carrington (born 14 May 1990) is an English former professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Steven Hallworth and Ian Glover in Grimsby.
In May 2011, Carrington qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as on ...
, ENG , RD1-score37= 6
, RD1-seed38= , RD1-team38= {{flagathlete, Pang Junxu
Pang Junxu (; born 15 February 2000) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" Award in 2021.
Career
As a result of Pang's performances on the CBSA Tour, he was awarded a two-year card on the World Snoo ...
, CHN , RD1-score38= 10
, RD1-seed39= 37 , RD1-team39= {{flagathlete, Kurt Maflin
Kurt Graham Maflin (born 8 August 1983) is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career and has made two 147 breaks in professional competit ...
, NOR , RD1-score39= 10
, RD1-seed40= , RD1-team40= {{flagathlete, Mitchell Mann
Mitchell Dennis Mann (born 26 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player.
Career Junior
Mann first played snooker aged 9, after being forced to quit football after a diagnosis of Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome, a rare disease ...
, ENG , RD1-score40= 3
, RD1-seed41= 12 , RD1-team41= {{flagathlete, Li Hang, CHN , RD1-score41= 10
, RD1-seed42= , RD1-team42= {{flagathlete, Niu Zhuang
Niu Zhuang (; born 26 June 1994) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
Niu first received attention in world snooker when he entered APTC Event 2 in 2012, reaching the last 16 and defeating established professionals Mark Ki ...
, CHN , RD1-score42= 5
, RD1-seed43= 53 , RD1-team43= {{flagathlete, Ian Burns, ENG , RD1-score43= 10
, RD1-seed44= , RD1-team44= {{flagathlete, Farakh Ajaib
Farakh Ajaib (born 3 February 1991) is a British Pakistani professional snooker player from Lancashire.
Career
In 2018, Ajaib was crowned the inaugural East Lancashire Snooker Championship winner. He was a ‘top-up’ player for several main t ...
, ENG , RD1-score44= 7
, RD1-seed45= 21 , RD1-team45= {{flagathlete, Ben Woollaston
Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 3, third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. W ...
, ENG , RD1-score45= 10
, RD1-seed46= , RD1-team46= {{flagathlete, Elliot Slessor
Elliot Slessor (born 4 August 1994) is an English professional snooker player.
In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.
Career
Sles ...
, ENG , RD1-score46= 7
, RD1-seed47= 44 , RD1-team47= {{flagathlete, Mike Dunn, ENG , RD1-score47= 7
, RD1-seed48= , RD1-team48= {{flagathlete, Nigel Bond
Nigel Bond (born 15 November 1965) is an English retired professional snooker player.
Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 ...
, ENG , RD1-score48= 10
, RD1-seed49= 45 , RD1-team49= {{flagathlete, Daniel Wells, WAL , RD1-score49= 10
, RD1-seed50= , RD1-team50= {{flagathlete, Jamie Clarke, WAL , RD1-score50= 5
, RD1-seed51= 20 , RD1-team51= {{flagathlete, Hossein Vafaei
Hossein Vafaei (; born 15 October 1994) is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. He won his first ranking title at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Mark Williams 1–0 (71–0) in the final.
...
, IRN , RD1-score51= 10
, RD1-seed52= , RD1-team52= {{flagathlete, Zhang Anda
Zhang Anda (; born 25 December 1991) is a Chinese professional snooker player, who made his debut on the Main Tour for the 2009–10 season. He qualified by winning the ACBS Asian Under-21 Championship. In November 2023 he won his first world ...
, CHN , RD1-score52= 4
, RD1-seed53= 52 , RD1-team53= {{flagathlete, Gerard Greene
Gerard Eamonn Greene (born 12 November 1973 in Chatham, Kent) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player. He represents Northern Ireland in international events, as his parents are from Belfast.
Greene has enjoyed moderate success ...
, NIR , RD1-score53= 10
, RD1-seed54= , RD1-team54= {{flagathlete, Aaron Hill, IRL , RD1-score54= 7
, RD1-seed55= 13 , RD1-team55= {{flagathlete, Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English former professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began ...
, ENG , RD1-score55= 10
, RD1-seed56= , RD1-team56= {{flagathlete, Mostafa Dorgham, EGY , RD1-score56= 0
, RD1-seed57= 36 , RD1-team57= {{flagathlete, Michael Georgiou
Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British-Greek Cypriots, Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooke ...
, CYP , RD1-score57= 10
, RD1-seed58= , RD1-team58= {{flagathlete, Lee Walker
Lee Walker (born 11 February 1976) is a Welsh retired professional snooker player and former World Seniors Champion. He is an official WPBSA coach and is the long-term coach of Mark Williams.
Career
After turning professional in 1994 at the ag ...
, WAL , RD1-score58= 7
, RD1-seed59= 29 , RD1-team59= {{flagathlete, Peter Ebdon
Peter David Ebdon (born 27 August 1970) is an English retired professional snooker player who is a former world champion and current coach. Ebdon won nine ranking titles during his career, placing him in joint 14th position (with John Parrott ...
, ENG , RD1-score59= 10
, RD1-seed60= , RD1-team60= {{flagathlete, Harvey Chandler
Harvey Chandler (born 19 April 1995) is an English professional snooker player from Northamptonshire.
Early and personal life
He is from Raunds in North Northamptonshire. He started playing snooker at the age of 13 years-old. His father would ...
, ENG , RD1-score60= 4
, RD1-seed61= 61 , RD1-team61= {{flagathlete, Mei Xiwen
Mei Xiwen (; born October 8, 1982) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
Mei made his debut on the Main Tour in the 2009/2010 season, as the ACBS Asian nomination, playing his first match at the 2009 Grand Prix. He lost 5� ...
, CHN , RD1-score61= 10
, RD1-seed62= , RD1-team62= {{flagathlete, Florian Nüßle
Florian Nüßle (born 18 December 2001) is an Austrian professional snooker player from Graz. In 2017, aged 16, he became his country's youngest national snooker champion. In March 2025, he won his Q Tour Playoff to gain a two-year professional ...
, AUT , RD1-score62= 3
, RD1-seed63= 4 , RD1-team63= {{flagathlete, Yan Bingtao
Yan Bingtao (; born 16 February 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a five-year ban from professional competition after committing a range of match-fixing offences. He rose to prominence by winning th ...
, CHN , RD1-score63= 10
, RD1-seed64= , RD1-team64= {{flagathlete, Lukas Kleckers
Lukas Kleckers (born 18 May 1996 in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former professional snooker player.
Career
Kleckers first drew attention in 2013 when, at the age of 17, he captured the highest ranking and most prestigious amateur ...
, GER , RD1-score64= 3
, RD1-seed65= 3 , RD1-team65= {{flagathlete, Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...
, ENG , RD1-score65= 10
, RD1-seed66= , RD1-team66= {{flagathlete, Paul Davison
Paul S. Davison (born 1 October 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Pickering, North Yorkshire. First earning a place on the World Snooker Tour in 1992, he played on the tour until 1997, and has since regained his place o ...
, ENG , RD1-score66= 1
, RD1-seed67= 62 , RD1-team67= {{flagathlete, Jimmy White
James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his swift and attacking style of play, White has reached six World Snooker Championship finals ...
, ENG , RD1-score67= 10
, RD1-seed68= , RD1-team68= {{flagathlete, Ross Bulman, IRL , RD1-score68= 5
, RD1-seed69= 30 , RD1-team69= {{flagathlete, Michael White, WAL , RD1-score69= 10
, RD1-seed70= , RD1-team70= {{flagathlete, Andy Hicks
Andrew Hicks (born 10 August 1973) is an English retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Cream of Devon", Hicks was a semi-finalist at both the World Snooker Championship and UK Championship in 1995, and the same stage at four other ...
, ENG , RD1-score70= 4
, RD1-seed71= 35 , RD1-team71= {{flagathlete, Yuan Sijun
Yuan Sijun (; born 29 May 2000) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Yuan started to play snooker at the age of 10 and played as a wildcard in many professional tournaments between ages of 13 and 16. Yuan first drew attention in 201 ...
, CHN , RD1-score71= 8
, RD1-seed72= , RD1-team72= {{flagathlete, John Astley, ENG , RD1-score72= 10
, RD1-seed73= 14 , RD1-team73= {{flagathlete, Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester.
Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...
, ENG , RD1-score73= 10
, RD1-seed74= , RD1-team74= {{flagathlete, Alfie Burden
Alfred Burden (born 14 December 1976) is an English former professional snooker player from London. He first turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest world ranking of 38th in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. His best results in ...
, ENG , RD1-score74= 7
, RD1-seed75= 51 , RD1-team75= {{flagathlete, Eden Sharav
Eden Sharav (; born 30 April 1992) is an Israeli-Scottish former professional snooker player. He was born in Israel to an Israeli father and a Scottish-born mother.
Career Amateur
In 2010 Sharav reached the final of the Scottish amateur champio ...
, ISR , RD1-score75= 10
, RD1-seed76= , RD1-team76= {{flagathlete, David Lilley
David William Lilley (born 31 October 1977) is a Scottish former professional footballer who usually plays at centre back but has also played at right back. Lilley was most recently the manager of Bellshill Athletic in the Scottish Junior Foo ...
, ENG , RD1-score76= 7
, RD1-seed77= 19 , RD1-team77= {{flagathlete, Zhou Yuelong
Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.
Career
Between 2 ...
, CHN , RD1-score77= 10
, RD1-seed78= , RD1-team78= {{flagathlete, Robin Hull
Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) is a Finnish former professional snooker player.
For some time, he was the sole Nordic countries, Nordic player on the game's Snooker world rankings, main tour. He is known as a solid -builder, having compiled o ...
, FIN , RD1-score78= 7
, RD1-seed79= 46 , RD1-team79= {{flagathlete, Liam Highfield
Liam Highfield (born 1 December 1990) is an English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010 after finishing second in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He plays left-handed.
Career Amateur years
In the 2007/2008 season, Highfi ...
, ENG , RD1-score79= 10
, RD1-seed80= , RD1-team80= {{flagathlete, Hammad Miah
Hammad Miah (born 6 July 1993) is an English former professional snooker player.
In May 2013, Miah qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first 2013 Q School event. Hammad Mi ...
, ENG , RD1-score80= 7
, RD1-seed81= 43 , RD1-team81= {{flagathlete, Fergal O'Brien
Fergal O'Brien (born 8 March 1972) is an Irish retired professional snooker player who competed on the World Snooker Tour from 1991 to 2024. He won one ranking title during his career, defeating Anthony Hamilton 9–7 in the final of the 1999 ...
, IRL , RD1-score81= 10
, RD1-seed82= , RD1-team82= {{flagathlete, Jackson Page
Jackson Page (born 8 August 2001) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He was born in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, and is a former European U-21 champion and the former Under-18 World Snooker Champion and in 2017 also became the Under-18 Europ ...
, WAL , RD1-score82= 4
, RD1-seed83= 22 , RD1-team83= {{flagathlete, Mark Davis, ENG , RD1-score83= 10
, RD1-seed84= , RD1-team84= {{flagathlete, Rod Lawler
Rod Lawler (born 12 July 1971) is an English retired professional snooker player. He is noted for his slow playing style which gave rise to his nickname, "Rod the Plod".
After turning professional in 1990, Lawler has reached one ranking tourna ...
, ENG , RD1-score84= 6
, RD1-seed85= 54 , RD1-team85= {{flagathlete, Alexander Ursenbacher
Alexander Ursenbacher (born 26 April 1996) is a Swiss professional snooker player from Rheinfelden. He is the first snooker player from Switzerland to have competed professionally (former professional Darren Paris represented England, in the mid ...
, SUI , RD1-score85= 4
, RD1-seed86= , RD1-team86= {{flagathlete, Jordan Brown, NIR , RD1-score86= 10
, RD1-seed87= 11 , RD1-team87= {{flagathlete, Lyu Haotian
Lyu Haotian (; born 29 November 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player, notable for being one of the youngest snooker players to have played in professional tournaments, aged only 14. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2012 Internatio ...
, CHN , RD1-score87= 10
, RD1-seed88= , RD1-team88= {{flagathlete, Ashley Carty
Ashley Carty (born 17 July 1995) is an English professional snooker player.
Career
At age 17, he reached the final of the 2013 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championship, losing 0–6 to James Cahill. He won the 2014 English Under-21 Champi ...
, ENG , RD1-score88= 5
, RD1-seed89= 38 , RD1-team89= {{flagathlete, Mark Joyce
Mark Joyce (born 11 August 1983) is an English former professional snooker player who lives in Walsall. He began his professional career by playing on the Challenge Tour in 2003. Joyce enjoyed an outstanding amateur career, winning the Europea ...
, ENG , RD1-score89= 10
, RD1-seed90= , RD1-team90= {{flagathlete, Billy Joe Castle
Billy Joe Castle (born 14 July 1992 in Marchwood, Hampshire) is an English professional snooker player.
Career
Castle came through the 2017 Q School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2017–18 a ...
, ENG , RD1-score90= 2
, RD1-seed91= 27 , RD1-team91= {{flagathlete, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player.
He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...
, THA , RD1-score91= 10
, RD1-seed92= , RD1-team92= {{flagathlete, Johnathan Bagley, ENG , RD1-score92= 4
, RD1-seed93= 59 , RD1-team93= {{flagathlete, Joe O'Connor, ENG , RD1-score93= 10
, RD1-seed94= , RD1-team94= {{flagathlete, Joe Swail
Joe Swail (born 29 August 1969) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player from Belfast. He retired in May 2019 after being relegated from the tour. He has reached ten major ranking semi-finals, including the 2000 and 2001 World Cham ...
, NIR , RD1-score94= 1
, RD1-seed95= 6 , RD1-team95= {{flagathlete, Jimmy Robertson, ENG , RD1-score95= 10
, RD1-seed96= , RD1-team96= {{flagathlete, Chen Feilong
Chen Feilong (; born 4 September 1982) is a former professional Chinese snooker player, playing on the World Snooker Tour from the 2018–19 season.
Career
He has been awarded a two-year professional tour card following his performances on the ...
, CHN , RD1-score96= 0
, RD1-seed97= 7 , RD1-team97= {{flagathlete, Xiao Guodong
Xiao Guodong (; born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the 202 ...
, CHN , RD1-score97= 10
, RD1-seed98= , RD1-team98= {{flagathlete, Jak Jones
Jak Jones (born 29 July 1993) is a Welsh professional snooker player.
He is from Cwmbran, Torfaen, in South Wales. He became a professional in 2010 at the age of 16 after winning the 2010 European Under-19 Snooker Championship in Malta.
As a ...
, WAL , RD1-score98= 5
, RD1-seed99= 58 , RD1-team99= {{flagathlete, Peter Lines
Peter Lines (born 11 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He has reached the semi-finals of one ranking tournament, the 2018 Paul Hunter Classic. He reached his highest ranking, 42nd in the world, in 1999. He is the ...
, ENG , RD1-score99= 9
, RD1-seed100= , RD1-team100= {{flagathlete, Michael Judge
Michael Judge (born 12 June 1975 in Dublin) is a former professional snooker player from Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest ranking, 24th, f ...
, IRL , RD1-score100= 10
, RD1-seed101= 26 , RD1-team101= {{flagathlete, Michael Holt, ENG , RD1-score101= 10
, RD1-seed102= , RD1-team102= {{flagathlete, Brandon Sargeant
Brandon Sargeant (born 28 June 1997) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Sargeant earned his place on the main tour after finishing top of the Challenge Tour 2018/2019 ranking list, earning him a two-year card for the 201 ...
, ENG , RD1-score102= 5
, RD1-seed103= 39 , RD1-team103= {{flagathlete, Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open.
Career
Early years
After some succ ...
, ENG , RD1-score103= 9
, RD1-seed104= , RD1-team104= {{flagathlete, James Cahill, ENG , RD1-score104= 10
, RD1-seed105= 10 , RD1-team105= {{flagathlete, Mark King, ENG , RD1-score105= 10
, RD1-seed106= , RD1-team106= {{flagathlete, Igor Figueiredo
Igor Almeida Figueiredo (born October 11, 1977) is a Brazilian professional snooker player. An amateur, Figueiredo entered the International Open Series (PIOS) tour in 2009 finishing 12th at year end. The same year, he was a finalist at the IBS ...
, BRA , RD1-score106= 4
, RD1-seed107= 55 , RD1-team107= {{flagathlete, Lu Ning
Lu Ning (; born 1 January 1994 in Jilin) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China who, in 2023, was banned from professional competition for five years and four months after committing match-fixing offences.
...
, CHN , RD1-score107= 10
, RD1-seed108= , RD1-team108= {{flagathlete, Allan Taylor, ENG , RD1-score108= 4
, RD1-seed109= 23 , RD1-team109= {{flagathlete, Scott Donaldson
Scott Donaldson (born 19 March 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Donaldson turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Snooker Championship and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 ...
, SCO , RD1-score109= 10
, RD1-seed110= , RD1-team110= {{flagathlete, Craig Steadman
Craig Steadman (born 14 July 1982) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Early career
Steadman began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2001, at the time the second-level professional tour. He reached the ...
, ENG , RD1-score110= 8
, RD1-seed111= 42 , RD1-team111= {{flagathlete, Ken Doherty
Kenneth Joseph Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player who also works as a commentator and pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. From Ranelagh in Dublin, he is the sport's only World Snooker Championship, wor ...
, IRL , RD1-score111= 10
, RD1-seed112= , RD1-team112= {{flagathlete, Andy Lee Andy Lee may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Sportspeople
* Andy Lee (American football) (born 1982), American football punter
* Andy Lee (boxer) (born 1984), Irish boxer
* Andy Lee (footballer, born 1982), English footballer for Bradford City
* Andy Lee (footb ...
, HKG , RD1-score112= 8
, RD1-seed113= 47 , RD1-team113= {{flagathlete, Anthony Hamilton, ENG , RD1-score113= 10
, RD1-seed114= , RD1-team114= {{flagathlete, James Wattana
James Wattana (; born January 17, 1970, as วัฒนา ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Wattana Pu-Ob-Orm'', then renamed รัชพล ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm'' in 2003) is a Thai former professional snooker pl ...
, THA , RD1-score114= 9
, RD1-seed115= 18 , RD1-team115= {{flagathlete, Matthew Selt
Matthew Selt (born 7 March 1985) is an English professional snooker player. He qualified for the professional tour by finishing seventh in the Pontin's International Open Series in 2006/2007. Selt played in his first professional final in 2014 ...
, ENG , RD1-score115= 10
, RD1-seed116= , RD1-team116= {{flagathlete, Dylan Emery
Dylan Emery (born 31 March 2001) is a Welsh professional snooker player.
Career
The winner of the 2021 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships, he defeated Julien Leclercq in the final, 5–2. As a result of this win, he earned a place o ...
, WAL , RD1-score116= 3
, RD1-seed117= 50 , RD1-team117= {{flagathlete, Zhao Xintong
Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player and the reigning World Snooker Champion. He first turned professional in the 2016–17 season, aged 19, having previously recorded wins against a number of top p ...
, CHN , RD1-score117= 10
, RD1-seed118= , RD1-team118= {{flagathlete, Adam Lilley, NZL , RD1-score118= 2
, RD1-seed119= 15 , RD1-team119= {{flagathlete, Noppon Saengkham
Noppon Saengkham (; born 15 July 1992) is a Thai professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 2010, he has reached one ranking final (the 2023 Scottish Open) in which he finished as runner-up to Gary Wilson.
Career
Early years
I ...
, THA , RD1-score119= 10
, RD1-seed120= , RD1-team120= {{flagathlete, Adam Stefanow
Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam).
According to Christianity, Adam sin ...
, POL , RD1-score120= 3
, RD1-seed121= 34 , RD1-team121= {{flagathlete, Alan McManus
Alan McManus (born 21 January 1971) is a Scottish retired professional snooker player, and a current commentator and pundit for ITV and Eurosport on snooker coverage. A mainstay of the world's top sixteen during the 1990s and 2000s, he has wo ...
, SCO , RD1-score121= 10
, RD1-seed122= , RD1-team122= {{flagathlete, Ng On-yee
Ng On-yee (; born 17 November 1990) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player who has won three IBSF World Snooker Championships and three World Women's Snooker Championship, World Women's Snooker world championships. She held the number one ...
, HKG , RD1-score122= 6
, RD1-seed123= 31 , RD1-team123= {{flagathlete, Martin O'Donnell
Martin O'Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer best known for his work on video game developer Bungie's titles, such as the ''Myth'' series, ''Oni'', the ''Halo'' series, and ''Destiny''. O'Don ...
, ENG , RD1-score123= 10
, RD1-seed124= , RD1-team124= {{flagathlete, Adam Duffy
Adam Duffy (born 30 March 1989) is an English former professional snooker player.
Duffy qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the third and final 2011 Q School event.
Career
Debut season
As a n ...
, ENG , RD1-score124= 6
, RD1-seed125= 63 , RD1-team125= {{flagathlete, Zhang Yong, CHN , RD1-score125= 10
, RD1-seed126= , RD1-team126= {{flagathlete, Reanne Evans
Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player and regular pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. Widely recognised as the most successful female player in the sport's history, she has won the World Women's Sno ...
, ENG , RD1-score126= 2
, RD1-seed127= 2 , RD1-team127= {{flagathlete, Joe Perry, ENG , RD1-score127= 10
, RD1-seed128= , RD1-team128= {{flagathlete, Simon Lichtenberg
Simon Lichtenberg (born 15 December 1997) is a German former professional snooker player.
Career
From Berlin, the son of British-German parents, Lichtenberg captained the league team of the Snookerfabrik (snooker factory) in Berlin. He was the ...
, GER , RD1-score128= 1
, RD2-seed01= 1 , RD2-team01= {{flagicon, WAL Ryan Day , RD2-score01= 3
, RD2-seed02= 64 , RD2-team02= {{flagicon, CHN Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei (; born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed o ...
, RD2-score02= 10
, RD2-seed03= 32 , RD2-team03= {{flagicon, WAL Matthew Stevens
Matthew John Stevens (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other t ...
, RD2-score03= 10
, RD2-seed04= 33 , RD2-team04= {{flagicon, ENG Chris Wakelin
Chris Wakelin (born 16 March 1992) is an English professional snooker player from Rugby, Warwickshire. He turned professional in 2013 and won his first ranking title at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out.
Career Early career
Wakelin started playing s ...
, RD2-score04= 7
, RD2-seed05= 16 , RD2-team05= {{flagicon, ENG Gary Wilson , RD2-score05= 10
, RD2-seed06= 49 , RD2-team06= {{flagicon, WAL Dominic Dale
Dominic Dale (born Christopher Dale; 29 December 1971) is a Welsh retired professional snooker player, as well as a current snooker commentator, pundit and presenter for BBC Cymru Wales and TNT Sports (United Kingdom), TNT Sports (formerly Eur ...
, RD2-score06= 3
, RD2-seed07= 17 , RD2-team07= {{flagicon, CHN Liang Wenbo
Liang Wenbo ( zh, s=梁文博; born 5 March 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. During his playing career, he won one ranking title at the 2016 English Open, twice won the World Cup for China in 2011 and 2017 with teammate ...
, RD2-score07= 10
, RD2-seed08= , RD2-team08= {{flagicon, ENG David Grace , RD2-score08= 7
, RD2-seed09= 41 , RD2-team09= {{flagicon, ENG Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album, ''Life thru a Lens'', was re ...
, RD2-score09= 8
, RD2-seed10= , RD2-team10= {{flagicon, CHN Luo Honghao
Luo Honghao (; born 31 January 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur
In July 2017, he reached the final of 2017 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship where he lost the final 7–6 to Fan Zhengyi.
Later ...
, RD2-score10= 10
, RD2-seed11= 56 , RD2-team11= {{flagicon, ENG Sam Craigie
Sam Craigie (born 29 December 1993) is an English professional snooker player from Newcastle. He enjoyed a successful junior career before turning professional in 2011.
Career
Early career
Craigie qualified for the 2011/2012 Main Tour after ...
, RD2-score11= 8
, RD2-seed12= 9 , RD2-team12= {{flagicon, ENG Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched Tom Ford (brand), his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Sai ...
, RD2-score12= 10
, RD2-seed13= 40 , RD2-team13= {{flagicon, THA Sunny Akani
Akani Songsermsawad (; born 10 September 1995), better known as Sunny Akani, is a Thai professional snooker player.
Career Early career
Akani, a regular in amateur Thai snooker events since 2011, first came to international attention with a 5–2 ...
, RD2-score13= 5
, RD2-seed14= 25 , RD2-team14= {{flagicon, ENG Robert Milkins
Robert Milkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since regaining a tour card in 1998.
Milkins reached a career high rank of 12 in 2014 and 2023, ...
, RD2-score14= 10
, RD2-seed15= 57 , RD2-team15= {{flagicon, WAL Duane Jones
Duane Lionel Jones (April 11, 1937July 22, 1988) was an American actor. He was best known for his lead role as Ben in the 1968 horror film ''Night of the Living Dead''. He was later director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New ...
, RD2-score15= 5
, RD2-seed16= 8 , RD2-team16= {{flagicon, SCO Anthony McGill
Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus.
McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He ...
, RD2-score16= 10
, RD2-seed17= 5 , RD2-team17= {{flagicon, SCO Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship ...
, RD2-score17= 10
, RD2-seed18= 60 , RD2-team18= {{flagicon, CHN Xu Si
Xu Si (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Xu Si first started playing snooker aged 12 at his local club in Jieyang during the school holidays. After a few weeks he became determined to become a snooker pla ...
, RD2-score18= 4
, RD2-seed19= , RD2-team19= {{flagicon, CHN Pang Junxu
Pang Junxu (; born 15 February 2000) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" Award in 2021.
Career
As a result of Pang's performances on the CBSA Tour, he was awarded a two-year card on the World Snoo ...
, RD2-score19= 7
, RD2-seed20= 37 , RD2-team20= {{flagicon, NOR Kurt Maflin
Kurt Graham Maflin (born 8 August 1983) is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career and has made two 147 breaks in professional competit ...
, RD2-score20= 10
, RD2-seed21= 12 , RD2-team21= {{flagicon, CHN Li Hang , RD2-score21= 10
, RD2-seed22= 53 , RD2-team22= {{flagicon, ENG Ian Burns , RD2-score22= 8
, RD2-seed23= 21 , RD2-team23= {{flagicon, ENG Ben Woollaston
Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 3, third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. W ...
, RD2-score23= 10
, RD2-seed24= , RD2-team24= {{flagicon, ENG Nigel Bond
Nigel Bond (born 15 November 1965) is an English retired professional snooker player.
Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 ...
, RD2-score24= 4
, RD2-seed25= 45 , RD2-team25= {{flagicon, WAL Daniel Wells , RD2-score25= 10
, RD2-seed26= 20 , RD2-team26= {{flagicon, IRN Hossein Vafaei
Hossein Vafaei (; born 15 October 1994) is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. He won his first ranking title at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Mark Williams 1–0 (71–0) in the final.
...
, RD2-score26= 6
, RD2-seed27= 52 , RD2-team27= {{flagicon, NIR Gerard Greene
Gerard Eamonn Greene (born 12 November 1973 in Chatham, Kent) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player. He represents Northern Ireland in international events, as his parents are from Belfast.
Greene has enjoyed moderate success ...
, RD2-score27= 6
, RD2-seed28= 13 , RD2-team28= {{flagicon, ENG Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English former professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began ...
, RD2-score28= 10
, RD2-seed29= 36 , RD2-team29= {{flagicon, CYP Michael Georgiou
Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British-Greek Cypriots, Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooke ...
, RD2-score29= 10
, RD2-seed30= 29 , RD2-team30= {{flagicon, ENG Peter Ebdon
Peter David Ebdon (born 27 August 1970) is an English retired professional snooker player who is a former world champion and current coach. Ebdon won nine ranking titles during his career, placing him in joint 14th position (with John Parrott ...
, RD2-score30= 8
, RD2-seed31= 61 , RD2-team31= {{flagicon, CHN Mei Xiwen
Mei Xiwen (; born October 8, 1982) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
Mei made his debut on the Main Tour in the 2009/2010 season, as the ACBS Asian nomination, playing his first match at the 2009 Grand Prix. He lost 5� ...
, RD2-score31= 8
, RD2-seed32= 4 , RD2-team32= {{flagicon, CHN Yan Bingtao
Yan Bingtao (; born 16 February 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a five-year ban from professional competition after committing a range of match-fixing offences. He rose to prominence by winning th ...
, RD2-score32= 10
, RD2-seed33= 3 , RD2-team33= {{flagicon, ENG Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...
, RD2-score33= 10
, RD2-seed34= 62 , RD2-team34= {{flagicon, ENG Jimmy White
James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his swift and attacking style of play, White has reached six World Snooker Championship finals ...
, RD2-score34= 4
, RD2-seed35= 30 , RD2-team35= {{flagicon, WAL Michael White , RD2-score35= 6
, RD2-seed36= , RD2-team36= {{flagicon, ENG John Astley , RD2-score36= 10
, RD2-seed37= 14 , RD2-team37= {{flagicon, ENG Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester.
Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...
, RD2-score37= 9
, RD2-seed38= 51 , RD2-team38= {{flagicon, ISR Eden Sharav
Eden Sharav (; born 30 April 1992) is an Israeli-Scottish former professional snooker player. He was born in Israel to an Israeli father and a Scottish-born mother.
Career Amateur
In 2010 Sharav reached the final of the Scottish amateur champio ...
, RD2-score38= 10
, RD2-seed39= 19 , RD2-team39= {{flagicon, CHN Zhou Yuelong
Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.
Career
Between 2 ...
, RD2-score39= 10
, RD2-seed40= 46 , RD2-team40= {{flagicon, ENG Liam Highfield
Liam Highfield (born 1 December 1990) is an English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010 after finishing second in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He plays left-handed.
Career Amateur years
In the 2007/2008 season, Highfi ...
, RD2-score40= 5
, RD2-seed41= 43 , RD2-team41= {{flagicon, IRL Fergal O'Brien
Fergal O'Brien (born 8 March 1972) is an Irish retired professional snooker player who competed on the World Snooker Tour from 1991 to 2024. He won one ranking title during his career, defeating Anthony Hamilton 9–7 in the final of the 1999 ...
, RD2-score41= 4
, RD2-seed42= 22 , RD2-team42= {{flagicon, ENG Mark Davis , RD2-score42= 10
, RD2-seed43= , RD2-team43= {{flagicon, NIR Jordan Brown , RD2-score43= 0
, RD2-seed44= 11 , RD2-team44= {{flagicon, CHN Lyu Haotian
Lyu Haotian (; born 29 November 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player, notable for being one of the youngest snooker players to have played in professional tournaments, aged only 14. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2012 Internatio ...
, RD2-score44= 10
, RD2-seed45= 38 , RD2-team45= {{flagicon, ENG Mark Joyce
Mark Joyce (born 11 August 1983) is an English former professional snooker player who lives in Walsall. He began his professional career by playing on the Challenge Tour in 2003. Joyce enjoyed an outstanding amateur career, winning the Europea ...
, RD2-score45= 5
, RD2-seed46= 27 , RD2-team46= {{flagicon, THA Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player.
He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...
, RD2-score46= 10
, RD2-seed47= 59 , RD2-team47= {{flagicon, ENG Joe O'Connor , RD2-score47= 10
, RD2-seed48= 6 , RD2-team48= {{flagicon, ENG Jimmy Robertson , RD2-score48= 9
, RD2-seed49= 7 , RD2-team49= {{flagicon, CHN Xiao Guodong
Xiao Guodong (; born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the 202 ...
, RD2-score49= 9
, RD2-seed50= , RD2-team50= {{flagicon, IRL Michael Judge
Michael Judge (born 12 June 1975 in Dublin) is a former professional snooker player from Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest ranking, 24th, f ...
, RD2-score50= 10
, RD2-seed51= 26 , RD2-team51= {{flagicon, ENG Michael Holt , RD2-score51= 7
, RD2-seed52= , RD2-team52= {{flagicon, ENG James Cahill , RD2-score52= 10
, RD2-seed53= 10 , RD2-team53= {{flagicon, ENG Mark King , RD2-score53= 5
, RD2-seed54= 55 , RD2-team54= {{flagicon, CHN Lu Ning
Lu Ning (; born 1 January 1994 in Jilin) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China who, in 2023, was banned from professional competition for five years and four months after committing match-fixing offences.
...
, RD2-score54= 10
, RD2-seed55= 23 , RD2-team55= {{flagicon, SCO Scott Donaldson
Scott Donaldson (born 19 March 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Donaldson turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Snooker Championship and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 ...
, RD2-score55= 10
, RD2-seed56= 42 , RD2-team56= {{flagicon, IRL Ken Doherty
Kenneth Joseph Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player who also works as a commentator and pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. From Ranelagh in Dublin, he is the sport's only World Snooker Championship, wor ...
, RD2-score56= 4
, RD2-seed57= 47 , RD2-team57= {{flagicon, ENG Anthony Hamilton , RD2-score57= 7
, RD2-seed58= 18 , RD2-team58= {{flagicon, ENG Matthew Selt
Matthew Selt (born 7 March 1985) is an English professional snooker player. He qualified for the professional tour by finishing seventh in the Pontin's International Open Series in 2006/2007. Selt played in his first professional final in 2014 ...
, RD2-score58= 10
, RD2-seed59= 50 , RD2-team59= {{flagicon, CHN Zhao Xintong
Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player and the reigning World Snooker Champion. He first turned professional in the 2016–17 season, aged 19, having previously recorded wins against a number of top p ...
, RD2-score59= 10
, RD2-seed60= 15 , RD2-team60= {{flagicon, THA Noppon Saengkham
Noppon Saengkham (; born 15 July 1992) is a Thai professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 2010, he has reached one ranking final (the 2023 Scottish Open) in which he finished as runner-up to Gary Wilson.
Career
Early years
I ...
, RD2-score60= 5
, RD2-seed61= 34 , RD2-team61= {{flagicon, SCO Alan McManus
Alan McManus (born 21 January 1971) is a Scottish retired professional snooker player, and a current commentator and pundit for ITV and Eurosport on snooker coverage. A mainstay of the world's top sixteen during the 1990s and 2000s, he has wo ...
, RD2-score61= 8
, RD2-seed62= 31 , RD2-team62= {{flagicon, ENG Martin O'Donnell
Martin O'Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer best known for his work on video game developer Bungie's titles, such as the ''Myth'' series, ''Oni'', the ''Halo'' series, and ''Destiny''. O'Don ...
, RD2-score62= 10
, RD2-seed63= 63 , RD2-team63= {{flagicon, CHN Zhang Yong , RD2-score63= 1
, RD2-seed64= 2 , RD2-team64= {{flagicon, ENG Joe Perry , RD2-score64= 10
, RD3-seed01= 64 , RD3-team01= {{flagicon, CHN Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei (; born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed o ...
, RD3-score01= 10
, RD3-seed02= 32 , RD3-team02= {{flagicon, WAL Matthew Stevens
Matthew John Stevens (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other t ...
, RD3-score02= 8
, RD3-seed03= 16 , RD3-team03= {{flagicon, ENG Gary Wilson , RD3-score03= 10
, RD3-seed04= 17 , RD3-team04= {{flagicon, CHN Liang Wenbo
Liang Wenbo ( zh, s=梁文博; born 5 March 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. During his playing career, he won one ranking title at the 2016 English Open, twice won the World Cup for China in 2011 and 2017 with teammate ...
, RD3-score04= 6
, RD3-seed05= , RD3-team05= {{flagicon, CHN Luo Honghao
Luo Honghao (; born 31 January 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur
In July 2017, he reached the final of 2017 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship where he lost the final 7–6 to Fan Zhengyi.
Later ...
, RD3-score05= 10
, RD3-seed06= 9 , RD3-team06= {{flagicon, ENG Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched Tom Ford (brand), his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Sai ...
, RD3-score06= 8
, RD3-seed07= 25 , RD3-team07= {{flagicon, ENG Robert Milkins
Robert Milkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since regaining a tour card in 1998.
Milkins reached a career high rank of 12 in 2014 and 2023, ...
, RD3-score07= 8
, RD3-seed08= 8 , RD3-team08= {{flagicon, SCO Anthony McGill
Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus.
McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He ...
, RD3-score08= 10
, RD3-seed09= 5 , RD3-team09= {{flagicon, SCO Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship ...
, RD3-score09= 10
, RD3-seed10= 37 , RD3-team10= {{flagicon, NOR Kurt Maflin
Kurt Graham Maflin (born 8 August 1983) is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career and has made two 147 breaks in professional competit ...
, RD3-score10= 2
, RD3-seed11= 12 , RD3-team11= {{flagicon, CHN Li Hang , RD3-score11= 10
, RD3-seed12= 21 , RD3-team12= {{flagicon, ENG Ben Woollaston
Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 3, third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. W ...
, RD3-score12= 8
, RD3-seed13= 45 , RD3-team13= {{flagicon, WAL Daniel Wells , RD3-score13= 8
, RD3-seed14= 13 , RD3-team14= {{flagicon, ENG Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English former professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began ...
, RD3-score14= 10
, RD3-seed15= 36 , RD3-team15= {{flagicon, CYP Michael Georgiou
Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British-Greek Cypriots, Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooke ...
, RD3-score15= 10
, RD3-seed16= 4 , RD3-team16= {{flagicon, CHN Yan Bingtao
Yan Bingtao (; born 16 February 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a five-year ban from professional competition after committing a range of match-fixing offences. He rose to prominence by winning th ...
, RD3-score16= 8
, RD3-seed17= 3 , RD3-team17= {{flagicon, ENG Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...
, RD3-score17= 10
, RD3-seed18= , RD3-team18= {{flagicon, ENG John Astley , RD3-score18= 4
, RD3-seed19= 51 , RD3-team19= {{flagicon, ISR Eden Sharav
Eden Sharav (; born 30 April 1992) is an Israeli-Scottish former professional snooker player. He was born in Israel to an Israeli father and a Scottish-born mother.
Career Amateur
In 2010 Sharav reached the final of the Scottish amateur champio ...
, RD3-score19= 6
, RD3-seed20= 19 , RD3-team20= {{flagicon, CHN Zhou Yuelong
Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.
Career
Between 2 ...
, RD3-score20= 10
, RD3-seed21= 22 , RD3-team21= {{flagicon, ENG Mark Davis , RD3-score21= 10
, RD3-seed22= 11 , RD3-team22= {{flagicon, CHN Lyu Haotian
Lyu Haotian (; born 29 November 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player, notable for being one of the youngest snooker players to have played in professional tournaments, aged only 14. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2012 Internatio ...
, RD3-score22= 7
, RD3-seed23= 27 , RD3-team23= {{flagicon, THA Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player.
He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...
, RD3-score23= 10
, RD3-seed24= 59 , RD3-team24= {{flagicon, ENG Joe O'Connor , RD3-score24= 6
, RD3-seed25= , RD3-team25= {{flagicon, IRL Michael Judge
Michael Judge (born 12 June 1975 in Dublin) is a former professional snooker player from Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest ranking, 24th, f ...
, RD3-score25= 6
, RD3-seed26= , RD3-team26= {{flagicon, ENG James Cahill , RD3-score26= 10
, RD3-seed27= 55 , RD3-team27= {{flagicon, CHN Lu Ning
Lu Ning (; born 1 January 1994 in Jilin) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China who, in 2023, was banned from professional competition for five years and four months after committing match-fixing offences.
...
, RD3-score27= 9
, RD3-seed28= 23 , RD3-team28= {{flagicon, SCO Scott Donaldson
Scott Donaldson (born 19 March 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Donaldson turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Snooker Championship and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 ...
, RD3-score28= 10
, RD3-seed29= 18 , RD3-team29= {{flagicon, ENG Matthew Selt
Matthew Selt (born 7 March 1985) is an English professional snooker player. He qualified for the professional tour by finishing seventh in the Pontin's International Open Series in 2006/2007. Selt played in his first professional final in 2014 ...
, RD3-score29= 4
, RD3-seed30= 50 , RD3-team30= {{flagicon, CHN Zhao Xintong
Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player and the reigning World Snooker Champion. He first turned professional in the 2016–17 season, aged 19, having previously recorded wins against a number of top p ...
, RD3-score30= 10
, RD3-seed31= 31 , RD3-team31= {{flagicon, ENG Martin O'Donnell
Martin O'Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer best known for his work on video game developer Bungie's titles, such as the ''Myth'' series, ''Oni'', the ''Halo'' series, and ''Destiny''. O'Don ...
, RD3-score31= 3
, RD3-seed32= 2 , RD3-team32= {{flagicon, ENG Joe Perry , RD3-score32= 10
Century breaks
Main stage centuries
The main stage of the 2019 World Snooker Championship yielded 100 centuries, made by 23 players. The highest break of the tournament, a 143, was compiled by John Higgins in his semi-final match with David Gilbert.
The championship broke a number of records in terms of century breaks, including the total number compiled in the main stage of a snooker tournament: there were 14 more centuries than the 86 recorded in both the 2015 and the 2016 championships. The final featured 11 century breaks, the highest number ever compiled in a single match, one more than the ten centuries in the 2016 semi-final between Ding Junhui and Allan McManus. Judd Trump equalled Ding's record of seven centuries made by one player in a world championship match.
{{div col
* 143, 139, 139, 135, 132, 132, 130, 125, 113, 101, 101, 100 {{ndash John Higgins
John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...
* 141, 135, 131, 126, 123, 114, 114, 106, 105, 104, 103, 103, 101, 101 {{ndash Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and the current List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is currently in ...
* 140, 134, 134, 117, 115, 109, 106, 100 {{ndash Gary Wilson
* 139, 125, 113, 109, 105, 102, 100 {{ndash David Gilbert
* 138, 132, 131, 125, 111, 104, 100 {{ndash Kyren Wilson
Kyren James Wilson (; born 23 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Kettering. He has won 10 ranking titles.
Wilson made his professional tour debut in the 2010–11 snooker season, 2010–11 season after finishing fif ...
* 138, 123, 112, 109, 102, 101 {{ndash Shaun Murphy
Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...
* 137, 136, 130, 105 {{ndash Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, ...
* 136 {{ndash Joe Perry
* 135, 128, 102 {{ndash Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...
* 134, 129, 106 {{ndash Ding Junhui
Ding Junhui (; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 15 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005 ...
* 131, 131, 120, 102 {{ndash Mark Selby
Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Ranked List of world number one snooker players, world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 24 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all ...
* 131, 125, 122, 121, 110, 105, 103 {{ndash Stephen Maguire
Stephen Maguire (born 13 March 1981) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won six major ranking tournaments, including the 2004 UK Championship, and has twice since reached the finals of that event. Maguire turned professional in ...
* 131 {{ndash Mark Allen
Mark may refer to:
In the Bible
* Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark
* Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels
Currencies
* Mark (currency), a currenc ...
* 131 {{ndash Luca Brecel
Luca Brecel (; born 8 March 1995) is a Belgian professional snooker player. A four-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, Brecel is a former World Snooker Championship, World Snooker Champion, having won the 2023 World Snooker Champ ...
* 129, 105, 101 {{ndash Mark Williams
* 127, 120, 120, 114, 106, 100 {{ndash Neil Robertson
Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He ...
* 124, 101 {{ndash Jack Lisowski
Jack Lisowski (born 25 June 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Churchdown, Gloucestershire. He turned professional in 2010 by finishing first in the 2009/2010 International Open Series, PIOS rankings. A left-handed player, he ...
* 114 {{ndash Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship ...
* 112, 107, 106 {{ndash Stuart Bingham
Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner.
Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his pro ...
* 106, 105, 101 {{ndash Zhou Yuelong
Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.
Career
Between 2 ...
* 104, 100 {{ndash Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei (; born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed o ...
* 104 {{ndash Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player. Widely recognised as one of the most talented and accomplished players in snooker history, he has won the World Snooker Championship seven times, a m ...
* 101 {{ndash James Cahill
{{div col end
Qualifying stage centuries
A total of 122 century breaks were made by 57 players during the qualifying stage of the World Championship.
{{div col
* 146, 121, 118, 113 {{ndash Noppon Saengkham
Noppon Saengkham (; born 15 July 1992) is a Thai professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 2010, he has reached one ranking final (the 2023 Scottish Open) in which he finished as runner-up to Gary Wilson.
Career
Early years
I ...
* 143, 143, 116, 114, 111 {{ndash Matthew Stevens
Matthew John Stevens (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other t ...
* 141, 133, 122, 119, 114 {{ndash Liang Wenbo
Liang Wenbo ( zh, s=梁文博; born 5 March 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. During his playing career, he won one ranking title at the 2016 English Open, twice won the World Cup for China in 2011 and 2017 with teammate ...
* 140, 135, 103 {{ndash Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship ...
* 139, 109, 107 {{ndash Chris Wakelin
Chris Wakelin (born 16 March 1992) is an English professional snooker player from Rugby, Warwickshire. He turned professional in 2013 and won his first ranking title at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out.
Career Early career
Wakelin started playing s ...
* 138, 128 {{ndash Marco Fu
Marco Fu Ka-chun (; born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian Goldfie ...
* 138, 124, 122, 102, 100 {{ndash Joe O'Connor
* 138, 107 {{ndash Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player.
He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...
* 136, 136, 115, 106 {{ndash Zhou Yuelong
Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.
Career
Between 2 ...
* 136, 113, 107, 100, 100 {{ndash Daniel Wells
* 136, 106 {{ndash Michael Holt
* 136 {{ndash Elliot Slessor
Elliot Slessor (born 4 August 1994) is an English professional snooker player.
In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.
Career
Sles ...
* 135, 113 {{ndash Lu Ning
Lu Ning (; born 1 January 1994 in Jilin) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China who, in 2023, was banned from professional competition for five years and four months after committing match-fixing offences.
...
* 135, 100 {{ndash Lyu Haotian
Lyu Haotian (; born 29 November 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player, notable for being one of the youngest snooker players to have played in professional tournaments, aged only 14. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2012 Internatio ...
* 134, 112, 100 {{ndash Gary Wilson
* 133, 125 {{ndash Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei (; born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed o ...
* 133, 119, 105 {{ndash Xiao Guodong
Xiao Guodong (; born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the 202 ...
* 132, 102, 100 {{ndash Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English former professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began ...
* 132 {{ndash Eden Sharav
Eden Sharav (; born 30 April 1992) is an Israeli-Scottish former professional snooker player. He was born in Israel to an Israeli father and a Scottish-born mother.
Career Amateur
In 2010 Sharav reached the final of the Scottish amateur champio ...
* 131, 119, 118, 113, 103, 100 {{ndash James Cahill
* 131, 118, 116 {{ndash Anthony McGill
Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus.
McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He ...
* 130, 102 {{ndash Scott Donaldson
Scott Donaldson (born 19 March 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Donaldson turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Snooker Championship and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 ...
* 130 {{ndash Andy Hicks
Andrew Hicks (born 10 August 1973) is an English retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Cream of Devon", Hicks was a semi-finalist at both the World Snooker Championship and UK Championship in 1995, and the same stage at four other ...
* 130 {{ndash Alan McManus
Alan McManus (born 21 January 1971) is a Scottish retired professional snooker player, and a current commentator and pundit for ITV and Eurosport on snooker coverage. A mainstay of the world's top sixteen during the 1990s and 2000s, he has wo ...
* 128, 103 {{ndash Yan Bingtao
Yan Bingtao (; born 16 February 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a five-year ban from professional competition after committing a range of match-fixing offences. He rose to prominence by winning th ...
* 128 {{ndash Hossein Vafaei
Hossein Vafaei (; born 15 October 1994) is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. He won his first ranking title at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Mark Williams 1–0 (71–0) in the final.
...
* 127, 120, 102, 101 {{ndash Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...
* 127, 110, 102, 100 {{ndash Joe Perry
* 127, 106 {{ndash Sam Craigie
Sam Craigie (born 29 December 1993) is an English professional snooker player from Newcastle. He enjoyed a successful junior career before turning professional in 2011.
Career
Early career
Craigie qualified for the 2011/2012 Main Tour after ...
* 124, 103 {{ndash Zhao Xintong
Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player and the reigning World Snooker Champion. He first turned professional in the 2016–17 season, aged 19, having previously recorded wins against a number of top p ...
* 122, 109, 102 {{ndash Mark Davis
* 121, 117, 101 {{ndash Michael Georgiou
Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British-Greek Cypriots, Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooke ...
* 121 {{ndash Kurt Maflin
Kurt Graham Maflin (born 8 August 1983) is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career and has made two 147 breaks in professional competit ...
* 121 {{ndash Alexander Ursenbacher
Alexander Ursenbacher (born 26 April 1996) is a Swiss professional snooker player from Rheinfelden. He is the first snooker player from Switzerland to have competed professionally (former professional Darren Paris represented England, in the mid ...
* 120 {{ndash Johnathan Bagley
* 119, 100 {{ndash Stuart Carrington
Stuart Carrington (born 14 May 1990) is an English former professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Steven Hallworth and Ian Glover in Grimsby.
In May 2011, Carrington qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as on ...
* 118 {{ndash Gerard Greene
Gerard Eamonn Greene (born 12 November 1973 in Chatham, Kent) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player. He represents Northern Ireland in international events, as his parents are from Belfast.
Greene has enjoyed moderate success ...
* 117 {{ndash Ashley Carty
Ashley Carty (born 17 July 1995) is an English professional snooker player.
Career
At age 17, he reached the final of the 2013 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championship, losing 0–6 to James Cahill. He won the 2014 English Under-21 Champi ...
* 116 {{ndash Brandon Sargeant
Brandon Sargeant (born 28 June 1997) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Sargeant earned his place on the main tour after finishing top of the Challenge Tour 2018/2019 ranking list, earning him a two-year card for the 201 ...
* 116 {{ndash Soheil Vahedi
Soheil Vahedi (, born March 15, 1989) is an Iranian former professional snooker player.
Career
In 2009 Vahedi entered the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, World Amateur Under-21 Snooker Championships in his home country in Kish Island, ...
* 116 {{ndash Xu Si
Xu Si (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Xu Si first started playing snooker aged 12 at his local club in Jieyang during the school holidays. After a few weeks he became determined to become a snooker pla ...
* 114, 100 {{ndash Ben Woollaston
Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 3, third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. W ...
* 114 {{ndash Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album, ''Life thru a Lens'', was re ...
* 112 {{ndash Zhang Anda
Zhang Anda (; born 25 December 1991) is a Chinese professional snooker player, who made his debut on the Main Tour for the 2009–10 season. He qualified by winning the ACBS Asian Under-21 Championship. In November 2023 he won his first world ...
* 111, 108 {{ndash John Astley
* 111 {{ndash Li Hang
* 109 {{ndash Niu Zhuang
Niu Zhuang (; born 26 June 1994) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
Niu first received attention in world snooker when he entered APTC Event 2 in 2012, reaching the last 16 and defeating established professionals Mark Ki ...
* 108, 102 {{ndash Ian Burns
* 106, 101 {{ndash Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched Tom Ford (brand), his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Sai ...
* 106 {{ndash Sam Baird
Sam Baird (born 17 June 1988) is an English former professional snooker player. He first entered the professional tour for the 2009/10 season, by winning the EBSA Pro-Ticket Tour Play-offs.
Career 2011/2012 season
Baird reached the main draw o ...
* 106 {{ndash Luo Honghao
Luo Honghao (; born 31 January 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Amateur
In July 2017, he reached the final of 2017 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship where he lost the final 7–6 to Fan Zhengyi.
Later ...
* 105, 101 {{ndash Mei Xiwen
Mei Xiwen (; born October 8, 1982) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career
Mei made his debut on the Main Tour in the 2009/2010 season, as the ACBS Asian nomination, playing his first match at the 2009 Grand Prix. He lost 5� ...
* 103 {{ndash Lukas Kleckers
Lukas Kleckers (born 18 May 1996 in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former professional snooker player.
Career
Kleckers first drew attention in 2013 when, at the age of 17, he captured the highest ranking and most prestigious amateur ...
* 102 {{ndash David Lilley
David William Lilley (born 31 October 1977) is a Scottish former professional footballer who usually plays at centre back but has also played at right back. Lilley was most recently the manager of Bellshill Athletic in the Scottish Junior Foo ...
* 101 {{ndash Martin O'Donnell
Martin O'Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer best known for his work on video game developer Bungie's titles, such as the ''Myth'' series, ''Oni'', the ''Halo'' series, and ''Destiny''. O'Don ...
* 101 {{ndash Sunny Akani
Akani Songsermsawad (; born 10 September 1995), better known as Sunny Akani, is a Thai professional snooker player.
Career Early career
Akani, a regular in amateur Thai snooker events since 2011, first came to international attention with a 5–2 ...
* 100 {{ndash Dominic Dale
Dominic Dale (born Christopher Dale; 29 December 1971) is a Welsh retired professional snooker player, as well as a current snooker commentator, pundit and presenter for BBC Cymru Wales and TNT Sports (United Kingdom), TNT Sports (formerly Eur ...
{{div col end
Coverage
The 2019 World Snooker Championship was broadcast live in the United Kingdom by BBC Television
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and BBC Online
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, as well as on Eurosport
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. Internationally, the event was broadcast by DAZN
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in Canada and the United States, by SKY
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in New Zealand, and by Now TV
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in Hong Kong.
World Snooker live streamed
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the event internationally on Facebook
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, doing so for the second time. Coverage of the qualifying rounds was also live streamed on Facebook, Eurosport Player
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and selected betting sites.
In Scotland, the BBC was criticised for showing the World Championship on BBC Scotland
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, rather than a speech by Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2023. She has served as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) sin ...
on Scottish independence
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. The BBC defended the decision, explaining that the speech had been broadcast live on its BBC Scotland news website.
Notes
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
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2019 in English sport
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