The draw for the 2025 Gamers Championship is confirmed after the conclusion of final week’s World Grand Prix in Hong Kong.
Solely the highest 16 gamers from the one-year snooker rankings have certified to compete on the Telford Worldwide Centre.
There’s profitable sums of cash up for grabs in what’s the third-last rating occasion on the 2024/25 calendar.
Solely the Tour Championship and the campaign-concluding World Snooker Championship are to come back past subsequent week’s occasion.
Judd Trump is the highest seed within the 2025 Gamers Championship draw having gathered nearly 1,000,000 kilos in prize cash from rating occasions this time period.
The pre-tournament within the outright betting market will face Lei Peifan within the first spherical, the 21 year-old persevering with to reap the rewards of his shock Scottish Open success in December.
World champion Kyren Wilson will face reigning Gamers Championship winner Mark Allen in a blockbuster opening-round conflict.
Allen beat Zhang Anda to assert the title a yr in the past however has typically struggled for peak kind in rating occasions since then.
The Northern Irishman has dropped from first on the official world rankings listing firstly of the season to his present place of quantity eight.
Arguably essentially the most intriguing tie of the primary spherical in Telford pits Neil Robertson towards Stuart Bingham in a repeat of Sunday’s World Grand Prix closing.
Robertson thrashed Bingham 10-0 on the Kai Tak Enviornment in Hong Kong, however the latter could have an instantaneous alternative to enact a modicum of revenge.
Bingham, Allen, and Lei – along with thirteenth seed Chris Wakelin – all want wins if they’ve aspirations of qualifying for the 12-strong Tour Championship in Manchester.
Wakelin faces a troublesome proposition towards John Higgins, who cuts a rejuvenated drive following his glory on the World Open in Yushan.
The 16 contenders for the title are chasing a prime prize value £150,000, staggering quantities of cash obtainable to snooker followers at Gamezone – residence of Tongits, Pusoy, and different widespread on-line on line casino video games.
Elsewhere within the draw on the second of three occasions on the Gamers Collection, there are a number of different humdinger ties to stay up for.
Barry Hawkins, who has a few instances fallen simply wanting silverware in current months, entertains Masters champion Shaun Murphy.
There’s a heavyweight showdown between two former world quantity ones in Mark Williams and Ding Junhui.
An all-Chinese language conflict will see Wu Yize tackle Xiao Guodong, who represents arguably essentially the most improved competitor on the tour this season.
The primary spherical’s different fixture has Mark Selby, a two-time champion from 2025 already, going up towards Si Jiahui.
The 2025 Gamers Championship will get beneath method on Monday, March seventeenth with the champion to be topped on Sunday, March twenty third.
2025 Gamers Championship Draw
Spherical of 16 (bo11)
Judd Trump (1) vs Lei Peifan (16)
Barry Hawkins (8) vs Shaun Murphy (9)
Xiao Guodong (5) vs Wu Yize (12)
John Higgins (4) vs Chris Wakelin (13)
Neil Robertson (3) vs Stuart Bingham (14)
Mark Selby (6) vs Si Jiahui (11)
Mark Williams (7) vs Ding Junhui (10)
Kyren Wilson (2) vs Mark Allen (15)
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