2025 World Snooker Championship

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The 2025 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2025 Halo World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 19 April to 5 May 2025 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 49th consecutive year the World Snooker Championship was staged at the venue. Qualifying took place from 7 to 16 April at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Organised by the World Snooker Tour and broadcast by BBC Sport in the UK, Eurosport in Europe, and other broadcasters globally, it was the 18th and final ranking event of the 2024–25 season. The winner received £500,000 from a total prize fund of £2,395,000. A then-record ten Chinese players reached the main stage, while three players, Lei Peifan, Zak Surety, and Daniel Wells, made their Crucible debuts. Kyren Wilson was the defending champion, having defeated Jak Jones 18–14 in the 2024 final to win his maiden world title, but he lost 9–10 to Lei in the first round, becoming the 20th player to experience...

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