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February–March Snooker competition in China

2025 World Open
Tournament information
Dates24 February – 2 March 2025 (2025-02-24 – 2025-03-02)
CityYushan
CountryChina
OrganisationWorld Snooker Tour
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£825,000
Winner's share£175,000
Defending champion Judd Trump (ENG)
← 2024
Snooker tournament

The 2025 World Open is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 24 February to 2 March 2025 in Yushan, China. The sixth edition of the World Open held in Yushan since 2016, it's the 14th ranking event of the 2024‍–‍25 season. The winner will receive £175,000 from a total prize fund of £825,000.

Judd Trump is the two‑time defending champion, having successfully defended his 2019 title by defeating Ding Junhui 10‍–‍4 in the final of the 2024 event.

Format

The tournament will take place from 24 February to 2 March 2025 in Yushan, China. The 14th ranking event of the 2024‍–‍25 season (following the 2025 Welsh Open and preceding the 2025 World Grand Prix), and the fifth and last major tournament of the season to be held in mainland China, the tournament is the sixth edition of the World Open since 2016. Originally created in 1982 as the Professional Players Tournament, the tournament was held in the UK as the Grand Prix and LG Cup from 1984 to 2009, and was renamed the World Open in 2010. China hosted the event from 2012 to 2014 in Haikou, and in Yushan since 2016.

Qualification for the tournament is taking place from 20 to 22 December 2024 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. Qualifying matches involving defending champion Judd Trump, reigning World Champion Kyren Wilson, the two highest‑ranked Chinese players (Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda), four Chinese wildcards, and Ronnie O'Sullivan are held over to be played at the main venue.

All matches are played as the best of nine frames up to and including the quarter‑finals. The semi‑finals are the best of 11 frames and the final is a best of 19 frames match played over two sessions.

Judd Trump is the two‑time defending champion, having won the event in 2019 and again, after a five‑year hiatus due to the COVID‑19 pandemic, in 2024, defeating 2017 World Open champion Ding Junhui 10‍–‍4 in the final.

Broadcasters

The qualifying matches are being broadcast domestically by Migu and Huya in China; by Discovery+ in Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland); and Matchroom.live in all other territories.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:

  • Winner: £175,000
  • Runner-up: £75,000
  • Semi-final: £33,000
  • Quarter-final: £22,000
  • Last 16: £14,000
  • Last 32: £9,000
  • Last 64: £5,000
  • Highest break: £5,000
  • Total: £825,000

Summary

Qualifying

Main draw

The draw for the tournament is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, an "a" indicates amateur players who were not on the main World Snooker Tour, and players in bold denote match winners.

Top half

 Last 64
Best of 9 frames		Last 32
Best of 9 frames		Last 16
Best of 9 frames		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
                   
  
 
  Judd Trump (ENG) (1) OR
 Xing Zihao (CHN)
  
  Long Zehuang (CHN)
  
  
  
  Alfie Burden (ENG)
  
  Joe O'Connor (ENG)
  
  
  
  Antoni Kowalski (POL)
  
  Matthew Stevens (WAL)
  
  
  
  Michael Holt (ENG)
  
  Martin O'Donnell (ENG)
  
  
  
  Yuan Sijun (CHN)
  
  Hossein Vafaei (IRN) (24)
  
  
  
  Joe Perry (ENG)
  
  Ding Junhui (CHN) (9) OR
 Jiang Jun (CHN)
  
  
  
  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA)
  
  Chris Totten (SCO)
  
  
  
  Sanderson Lam (ENG) OR
WILDCARD 1
  
  Shaun Murphy (ENG) (8) OR
 Mostafa Dorgham (EGY)
  
  
  
  Mark Allen (NIR) (5) OR
 Rory Thor (MAS)
  
  David Lilley (ENG) OR
WILDCARD 2
  
  
  
  Wu Yize (CHN) (28)
  
  Jackson Page (WAL)
  
  
  
  Ali Carter (ENG) (12)
  
  He Guoqiang (CHN)
  
  
  
  Jack Lisowski (ENG) (21)
  
  Scott Donaldson (SCO) OR
WILDCARD 3
  
  
  
  Ben Woollaston (ENG)
  
  David Gilbert (ENG) (20) OR
 Amir Sarkhosh (IRN)
  
  
  
  Jamie Jones (WAL)
  
  Barry Hawkins (ENG) (13)
  
  
  
  Ricky Walden (ENG)
  
  Ryan Day (WAL) (29)
  
  
  
  Louis Heathcote (ENG)
 
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (4) OR
 Stuart Carrington (ENG)
 

Bottom half

 Last 64
Best of 9 frames		Last 32
Best of 9 frames		Last 16
Best of 9 frames		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
                   
  
 
  Mark Selby (ENG) (3) OR
 Artemijs Žižins (LAT)
  
  Liu Hongyu (CHN) OR
 Baipat Siripaporn (THA)
  
  
  
  Elliot Slessor (ENG) (30)
  
  Lyu Haotian (CHN) OR
 Oliver Lines (ENG)
  
  
  
  Zak Surety (ENG)
  
  Jordan Brown (NIR)
  
  
  
  Xiao Guodong (CHN) (19) OR
 Dylan Emery (WAL)
  
  Fan Zhengyi (CHN) OR
 Duane Jones (WAL)
  
  
  
  Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND)
  
  Tom Ford (ENG) (22)
  
  
  
  Daniel Wells (WAL)
  
  Gary Wilson (ENG) (11)
  
  
  
  Jimmy Robertson (ENG)
  
  Noppon Saengkham (THA) (27)
  
  
  
  Aaron Hill (IRL)
  
  Mark Williams (WAL) (6) OR
 Sunny Akani (THA)
  
  
  
  Luca Brecel (BEL) (7) OR
 Iulian Boiko (UKR) (a)
  
  Tian Pengfei (CHN)
  
  
  
  Pang Junxu (CHN) (26) OR
 Ken Doherty (IRL)
  
  Anthony McGill (SCO)
  
  
  
  Zhang Anda (CHN) (10) OR
 Stan Moody (ENG)
  
  Graeme Dott (SCO) OR
 Jimmy White (ENG)
  
  
  
  Robert Milkins (ENG) (23)
  
  Xu Si (CHN) OR
WILDCARD 4
  
  
  
  Robbie Williams (ENG)
  
  Jak Jones (WAL) (18)
  
  
  
  Mark Davis (ENG)
  
  John Higgins (SCO) (15)
  
  
  
  Matthew Selt (ENG) OR
 Manasawin Phetmalaikul (THA)
  
  Zhou Yuelong (CHN) (31)
  
  
  
  Lei Peifan (CHN)
 
  Kyren Wilson (ENG) (2) OR
 Hammad Miah (ENG)
 

Qualifying

Qualification for the tournament is taking place from 20 to 22 December at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. Matches involving defending champion Judd Trump, reigning World Champion Kyren Wilson, the two highest‑ranked Chinese players (Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda), four Chinese wildcards, and Ronnie O'Sullivan have been held over to be played at the final venue. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, an "a" indicates amateur players who were not on the main World Snooker Tour, and players in bold denote match winners.

Yushan

The held‑over matches to be played in Yushan on 24 February are as follows:

Sheffield

The qualifying matches being played in Sheffield are as follows:

20 December

21 December

Note: n/s=no‑show; w/o=walkover

22 December

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

A total of 28 century breaks have been made during the qualifying stage of the tournament in Sheffield.

Notes

  1. Chris Wakelin withdrew and was replaced by Paul Deaville
  2. Andrew Pagett withdrew and was replaced by Joshua Thomond
  3. Neil Robertson did not show up for the match and so Michael Holt was given a walkover.

References

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