The match schedule for the top 16 players at the 2025 Halo World Championship is now available, with snooker’s greatest tournament to run from April 19th to May 5th at the Crucible in Sheffield.
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Defending champion Kyren Wilson will take to the stage on the opening morning at 10am on Saturday April 19th, and he’ll complete his first round tie on the same evening from 7pm. The other seeds in action on the opening day will be Xiao Guodong, Neil Robertson, Mark Williams and Barry Hawkins.
John Higgins, the man in form having won two ranking titles in as many months, will play on the morning and evening of Monday April 21st. Ronnie O’Sullivan begins his bid for a record eighth Crucible crown at 2.30pm on Tuesday April 22nd and concludes the following afternoon. World number one Judd Trump plays in the evening sessions on the same two days.
The top 16 seeds will be drawn at random against the 16 players who come through the qualifying rounds, currently being contested at the English Institute of Sport. The draw will take place around 8.45am on Thursday April 17th and you can listen on BBC Radio Five Live or watch on the BBC Sport website. Four-time Crucible king Mark Selby will be in the studio to react to the draw.
The seeds are ordered in the draw as follows:
Kyren Wilson (1) v qualifier Jak Jones (16) v qualifier Neil Robertson (9) v qualifier Mark Allen (8) v qualifier ——- Ronnie O’Sullivan (5) v qualifier Zhang Anda (12) v qualifier Si Jiahui (13) v qualifier Mark Selby (4) v qualifier ——- John Higgins (3) v qualifier Xiao Guodong (14) v qualifier Barry Hawkins (11) v qualifier Mark Williams (6) v qualifier ——- Luca Brecel (7) v qualifier Ding Junhui (10) v qualifier Shaun Murphy (15) v qualifier Judd Trump (2) v qualifier
So, Ronnie is scheduled to play his first match on Tuesday 22 May and Wednesday 23 May, both times in the afternoon session. Of course, whether he will play or not remains to be seen. Should he play, and win, the next seed he could face is Zhang Anda.
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