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Entry is now open for the 2025 World Women’s Snooker Championship as the most prestigious tournament in women’s snooker will return to Dongguan Changping following its groundbreaking first staging in China last year. Organised by World Women’s Snooker (WWS), the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA), Cantonese Snooker (Changping) and the Dongguan Billiards and Snooker Association,...

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The 2025 Halo World Championship runs from April 19th to May 5th as snooker’s greatest players battle for the famous trophy at the Crucible. Limited tickets and VIP packages for certain sessions are still available – for details click here. Or you can watch live from home or on the move. If there is no television or online broadcast in your territory, then you can watch the event live on the new WST Play platform. For all details click here. The broadcasters are: UK BBC, BBC iPlayer and...

The draw for the final stages of the 2025 Halo World Championship has been made with defending champion Kyren Wilson being pitted against Scottish Open winner Lei Peifan, who meet on Saturday morning. The balls were pulled out on BBC Radio 5 Live by presenters Rick Edwards and Rachel Burden. The 16 seeds were drawn out at random against the 16 qualifiers. A mouth watering repeat of the 2008 and 2012 world finals gets underway on the afternoon of Tuesday April 22nd, with seven-time World...

The first ever ‘Champions Dinner’ will be staged in the run up to the 2025 Halo World Snooker Championship with former world champions invited to share stories, relive tournament memories on and off the table, and celebrate their shared legacy as friends and rivals. A total of 12 former Crucible champions will attend the inaugural dinner, which takes place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sheffield on Thursday 17 April, including reigning champion Kyren Wilson, ‘The King of the Crucible’...

Snooker and Boxing came together today to kickstart a huge week for Sport in Sheffield as the Matchroom Charitable Foundation made a £25,000 donation to Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park’s grant giving programme, the Sheffield Legacy Fund. It means up to 25 Grassroots community organisations within a three-mile radius of Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park can now apply for grants of up to £1,000 to fund their activities addressing physical and mental health and wellbeing. The priority for these...

The 33-year professional snooker career of two-time ranking event winner Dominic Dale has come to an end following his defeat in the 2025 Halo World Championship qualifiers last week. ‘The Spaceman’ confirmed his retirement from the professional game after a 10-5 loss at the hands of Daniel Wells in the penultimate qualifying round at Sheffield’s English Institute of Sport The 53-year-old We...

David Causier defeated Pankaj Advani 8-7 in an epic final of the 2025 World Billiards World Matchplay Championship to successfully defend his crown. Results The prestigious Level 6 ranking event was staged at the SBI Academy in Carlow, Ireland and a total of 50 cueists from across the globe embarked on the venue for the week-long tournament. Causer came into the World Matchplay Championship on the...

The final qualifying round of the 2025 Halo World Championship runs on Tuesday and Wednesday at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, with the 16 winners going through to the Crucible. Judgement Day will be broadcast on WST Play. If you are not already a subscriber, it will be free to watch Judgement Day, all you need to do is create a free login. You can create an account using the ‘login’ button at the top right of our website home page. Join Rob Walker, Ken Doherty, David Hendon...

The WPBSA and WST have today jointly confirmed the provisional tour card structure for the 2025/26 World Snooker Tour. Retained Places The top 64 players on the Johnstone’s Paint world rankings following the 2025 Halo World Championship will retain their tour places. They will be joined by up to 32 players who are currently on the first year of a two-year tour card, as well as the top four players on the Johnstone’s Paint one-year list, not already qualified. Qualification Pathways The...

Jackson Page made history by becoming the first ever player to craft two 147 breaks in a single match, claiming a massive £147,000 bonus in the process. The Welshman made two maximums during his 10-2 win over Allan Taylor in the third round of Halo World Championship qualifying. His first came yesterday afternoon and astonishingly a second came in the last frame of the match today. As a result, Page earns the £147,000 bonus on offer for making two maximums across snooker’s four majors...

Joe Perry’s 33-year professional snooker career has come to an end after ‘The Gentleman’ was defeated in the 2025 Halo World Snooker Championship qualifiers last week. The two-time ranking event winner confirmed his impending retirement heading into the sport’s most prestigious event and a 10-5 loss to Yuan Sijun at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield saw the curtain fall on Perry’s memorable career. Prior to his final match, Perry said: “I’ve officially retired. As soon as my...

The 2025 Halo World Championship runs from April 19th to May 5th as snooker’s greatest players battle for the famous trophy at the Crucible. Limited tickets and VIP packages for certain sessions are still available – for details click here. Or you can watch live from home or on the move. If there is no television or online broadcast in your territory, then you can watch the event live on the new WST Play platform. For all details click here. The broadcasters are: UK BBC, BBC iPlayer and...

Jackson Page fired in his first ever 147 break during his third round Halo World Championship Qualifying match at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The Welsh 23-year-old crafted a perfect break in the eighth frame against Allan Taylor to blitz to a 7-1 lead. His previous best break was a run of 142 in last year’s World Championship. It puts Page in line for a £10,000 bonus on offer for maximum breaks made at Crucible qualifying and places him in pole position for the £15,000...

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Graeme Dott has been suspended by the WPBSA due to a case which is scheduled to be heard before the High Court in Scotland. Whilst court proceedings are ongoing, it would be inappropriate for the WPBSA to make any further comment. The post WPBSA Statement | Graeme Dott appeared first on WPBSA. Continue reading...

The quest for the Crucible runs from April 7-16, as 128 players head to the English Institute of Sports in Sheffield, all dreaming of winning a place in the final stages of the Halo World Championship. All players seeded outside the top 16 will be at the qualifying rounds, including star names Ali Carter, Stuart Bingham, Jack Lisowski, Hossein Vafaei, Stephen Maguire, Gary Wilson, Wu Yize, Chris Wakelin, David Gilbert and Jimmy White. Tickets to the qualifiers are just £12 per day – for...

David Causier defeated Peter Gilchrist 677-315 to successfully defend the 2025 Irish Open at the SBI Academy in Carlow, Ireland. Results The victory marks the perfect start for Causier to a week that features both the Irish Open and the prestigious World Matchplay Championship which runs from 7-11 April. The reigning world champion was in a field that featured 50 cueists from across the globe and ...