World Snooker Championship 2025

First round of qualifying begins on Monday 7th April.

Matches to look out for in the first qualifying round include.......

Bai Yulu v Liam Highfield
Haydon Pinhey v Ken Doherty
Ka Wai Cheung v Zhou Xintong
Jimmy White v Anton Kazakov

Sadly Ng On-Yee didn't get a wildcard invitation, but I'm glad she's back on the tour next season. Good to see Zhao Xintong and 14 year old Michal Szubarczyk get an invitation. I think it'll be just about worth it to get a 1 month susbscription to TNT Sport from April 7th for the snooker qualifiers and the European football.

Other ties I'm keeping an eye on.

Artemijs Zizins (Latvia) v Dylan Emery (Wales)
Antoni Kowalski (Poland) v Reanne Evans (England)
Duane Jones (Wales) v Florian Nuessle (Austria)
Sunny Akani (Thailand) v Kreishh Gurbaxani (India)
Liam Pullen (England) v Gao Yang (China)
Bulcsu Revesz (Hungary) v Steven Hallworth (England)
Dean Young (Scotland) v Michal Szubarczyk (Poland)
Ian Burns (England) v Mink Nutcharut (Thailand)

(02-04-2025 21:57 )Snooks Wrote:  First round of qualifying begins on Monday 7th April.

Matches to look out for in the first qualifying round include.......

Bai Yulu v Liam Highfield
Haydon Pinhey v Ken Doherty
Ka Wai Cheung v Zhou Xintong
Jimmy White v Anton Kazakov

It sould be nice to see both Jimmy & Ken make through to the Crucible one last time

It's been announced that Desislava Bozhilova will referee the world championship final for the first time. Congrats to her.

https://www.wst.tv/news/2025/april/02/bo...irst-time/

Should have been Tatiana Woollaston for me as she is the best ref on the snooker circuit.
Even a certain Ronnie O'Sullivan thinks so and he hates referees .

Do we all remember the Carling Black Label ad with the top referee at the time Len Ganley....

(Yesterday 19:06 )Snooks Wrote:  Should have been Tatiana Woollaston for me as she is the best ref on the snooker circuit.
Even a certain Ronnie O'Sullivan thinks so and he hates referees .

Would Ronnie even contest the Apponitment and get it changed?

(Yesterday 18:00 )Stemmw Wrote:  It's been announced that Desislava Bozhilova will referee the world championship final for the first time. Congrats to her.

Hooray! My favourite referee 100% the best choice for me. Although Tatiana would be my 2nd choice, and if the World Championship was ever played in China or Hong Kong, I'd love to see Queenie Lyu referee the final.