World Open Snooker 2025 draw, schedule, TV channel, prize money and odds

02/20/2025 10:20 AM

As we head towards the business end of the season the World Snooker Tour travels to Yushan, China for the World Open, starting on Sunday.

Judd Trump is the defending champion at the ranking event after he downed Ding Junhui in last year’s final, beating the Chinese superstar 10-4 in the showpiece.

With the winner claiming £175,000, the World Open could prove hugely significant in the race to get into the upcoming Players Championship and Tour Championship, then make it into the top 16 to avoid World Championship qualifying and head straight to the Crucible.

There have been some withdrawals in the days leading up to the event, with Ronnie O’Sullivan, Luca Brecel, Ricky Walden, Jak Jones and Chris Totten all pulling out.

However, it remains a heavyweight field at the tournament, including world number one Trump, world champion Kyren Wilson, Masters winner Shaun Murphy and newly-crowed Welsh Open champ Mark Selby.

Trump is bidding for a hat-trick of World Open crowns having won the previous edition in 2019 as well, before an enforced break due to Covid.

The other players to lift the trophy since the event moved to Yushan in 2016 have been Ali Carter, Ding and Mark Williams.

World Open draw and schedule

Sunday 23 February
All times UK
01.30
Elliot Slessor vs Lyu Haotian
Sanderson Lam vs Wildcard
David Lilley vs Wildcard
Scott Donaldson vs Wildcard
Zhang Anda vs Stan Moody
Xu Si vs Wildcard
Kyren Wilson vs Hammad Miah

06.00
Mark Selby vs Liu Hongyu
Jimmy Robertson vs Noppon Saengkham
Aaron Hill vs Sunny Akani
Robbie Williams vs Jak Jones
Mark Davis vs John Higgins
Daniel Womersley vs Stuart Carrington

11.30
Antoni Kowalski vs Matthew Stevens
Michael Holt vs Martin O’Donnell
Wu Yize vs Jackson Page
Ali Carter vs He Guoqiang
M Phetmalaikul vs Zhou Yuelong
Judd Trump vs Xing Zihao
Ding Junhui vs Jiang Jun

Monday 24 February

01.30
Lam/Wildcard vs Shaun Murphy
Mark Allen vs Lilley/Wildcard
Jack Lisowski vs Donaldson/Wildcard
Zak Surety vs Jordan Brown

06.00
Ben Woollaston vs Amir Sarkosh
Jamie Jones vs Barry Hawkins
Louis Heathcote vs Womersley/Carrington
Xiao Guodong vs Duane Jones
Pang Junxu vs Anthony McGill
Zhang/Moody vs Graeme Dott
Lei Peifan vs Wilson/Miah

11.30
Trump/Xing vs Long Zehuang
Alfie Burden vs Joe O’Connor
Yuan Sijun vs Hossein Vafaei
Joe Perry vs Ding/Jiang
Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Tom Ford
Daniel Wells vs Gary Wilson
Robert Milkins vs Xu Si/Wildcard

Wed 26 Feb: Last 16
Thu 27 Feb: QFs
Fri 28 Feb: SFs
Sat 01 Mar: Final

How to watch the World Open

As per World Snooker Tour, in the UK and Ireland: ‘Until February 28th live coverage will be simulcast on Eurosport and TNT Sports 3, and available to stream on discovery+. Eurosport officially stops broadcast at 2am UK time on February 28th. From that point onwards all live coverage will continue to be live on TNT Sports 3 and discovery+.’

World Open prize money

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