The 2025 Tour Championship commences on Monday in Manchester with the 12 finest gamers from this season within the draw.
It’s the penultimate rating occasion of the 2024/25 snooker season, and the final match on the Gamers Sequence of competitions the place qualification relies on the one-year rankings.
Neil Robertson triumphed on the 32-player World Grand Prix firstly of March earlier than Kyren Wilson received final week’s 16-strong Gamers Championship.
Robertson and Wilson will likely be among the many star names who’re battling it out for the £150,000 high prize on the Manchester Central this week.
2025 Tour Championship Prize Cash
Champion: £150,000
Runner-up: £60,000
Semi-Finals: £40,000
Quarter-Finals: £30,000
Spherical of 12: £20,000
Highest Break: £10,000
Whole: £500,000
Who’s within the 2025 Tour Championship draw?
Questionable planning by the World Snooker Tour resulted in all three occasions on the Gamers Sequence being scheduled back-to-back on this season’s calendar.
It has led to a scarcity of selection within the prestigious occasions which can be main as much as the campaign-concluding World Snooker Championship.
The 2025 Tour Championship draw options 4 fewer gamers in comparison with final week’s Gamers Championship.
But lots of the match-ups stay the identical as the particular seeding positions for every occasion barely modified.
Certainly, all 4 first-round ties mimic fixtures from the latest outing in Telford.
As soon as once more, Mark Williams will play Ding Junhui with the Welshman this time set to sport contact lenses in an effort to abate his ailing eyesight points.
Williams, who turned 50 in March, is the reigning Tour Championship winner and would turn out to be the oldest ever rating occasion winner by two days if he might efficiently defend his crown.
Mark Selby has a repeat contest with Si Jiahui and Shaun Murphy will entertain Barry Hawkins as soon as extra.
The all-Chinese language battle between Xiao Guodong and Wu Yize arguably supplies probably the most intrigue on the early stage of the competitors.
Xiao edged his countryman 6-5 on the Gamers Championship, however Wu will likely be hoping to enact a modicum of revenge en path to securing a last-gasp computerized spot on the Crucible Theatre.
The 21 year-old is the final participant presently outdoors the world’s high 16 who might nonetheless break into the essential bracket on the official two-year listing earlier than Sheffield, and subsequently keep away from the dreaded World Championship qualifiers.
Wu not solely must beat Xiao, however he additionally should go all the way in which to the ultimate if he’s to displace Jak Jones within the World Championship first-round draw.
Kyren Wilson and Neil Robertson, in the meantime, are among the many high 4 seeds who’re routinely by way of to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Tour Championship draw.
World primary Judd Trump, who was crushed 10-9 by Wilson in an thrilling remaining in Telford final week, and rejuvenated World Open winner John Higgins are the others safely into the final eight.
Each encounter on the Tour Championship will happen over 19 frames.
2025 Tour Championship draw
Occasions in UTC+1
Spherical of 12 (bo19)
Shaun Murphy vs Barry Hawkins
(Monday at 1pm and 7pm)
Xiao Guodong vs Wu Yize
(Monday at 1pm and Tuesday at 1pm)
Mark Selby vs Si Jiahui
(Tuesday at 1pm and 7pm)
Mark Williams vs Ding Junhui
(Monday at 7pm and Tuesday at 7pm)
Quarter-Finals (bo19)
Judd Trump vs Murphy/Hawkins
(Wednesday at 1pm and 7pm)
John Higgins vs Xiao/Wu
(Wednesday at 1pm and Thursday at 1pm)
Neil Robertson vs Selby/Si
(Wednesday at 7pm and Thursday at 7pm)
Kyren Wilson vs Williams/Ding
(Thursday at 1pm and 7pm)
Semi-Finals (bo19)
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Matches to be performed on Friday and Saturday at 1pm and 7pm. Schedule to be confirmed.
Closing (bo19)
TBC vs TBC
Match to be performed on Sunday, April sixth at 1pm and 7pm.
Click on right here for up to date scores and outcomes
(snooker.org)
Tips on how to watch
There are a number of choices out there to look at the 2025 Tour Championship this yr. The complete listing of world broadcasters:
UK
ITV
Eire
ITV
TNT Sports activities
Mainland Europe
Eurosport and regionally related streaming platforms (discovery+ in Germany, Italy, and Austria; MAX in all different markets)
China
Huya.com
Migu
CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel
CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China
Now TV
Malaysia and Brunei
Astro
Philippines
Faucet
Taiwan
Sportcast
Thailand
True Sport
All different territories
WST Play
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