The 2025 Shanghai Masters commences on Monday with a lot of the high 16 gamers from the world rankings within the attract China.
Now properly established as one of the vital prestigious invitational occasions on the calendar, the Shanghai Masters marks the brand new season’s largest prize on provide so provide.
The Shanghai Masters was launched as a rating occasion again 2007 and continued to be open to your entire tour like that up till 2017.
From 2018, nonetheless, the match shifted to its present non-ranking guise with simply 24 gamers within the area for every version.
Shanghai Masters prize cash
Champion: £210,000
Runner-up: £105,000
Semi-final: £70,000
Quarter-final: £35,000
Final 16: £17,500
Final 24: £10,000
Highest break: £10,000
Who’re the previous champions?
Ronnie O’Sullivan is a document five-time winner of the occasion – twice when it was beforehand staged as a rating occasion and thrice since its transition to invitational standing.
Dominic Dale was the primary Shanghai Masters winner again in 2007, however the retired Welshman clearly gained’t be in motion this time round.
Ali Carter, Stuart Bingham, and Ricky Walden are different prior champions who’ve did not obtain an invite as gamers ranked outdoors the highest 16.
John Higgins, Mark Selby, Ding Junhui, Kyren Wilson, Ali Carter, and reigning champion Judd Trump are all within the 2025 Shanghai Masters draw, although.
Who’s within the 2024 Shanghai Masters draw?
Because it’s a 24-player area, the highest eight seeds have been awarded byes via to the final 16 of the competitors.
That features Trump, who beat Shaun Murphy 11-5 in final 12 months’s last to seize the title for the primary time in his profession.
Wilson, Mark Williams, Higgins, O’Sullivan, Ding, Selby, and Zhao Xintong are the others to take pleasure in automated seeding via to the final 16.
Zhao will likely be making his first most important tour look because the reigning world champion after capturing a maiden Crucible crown in Could.
The remaining contenders from the elite bracket will likely be paired with the subsequent 4 highest-ranked Chinese language gamers on the World Snooker Tour and 4 extra Chinese language newbie wildcards.
Neil Robertson encounters Pang Junxu, Zhang Anda meets Yuan Sijun, Xiao Guodong performs Lei Peifan, and Barry Hawkins takes on Wu Yize.
The 4 wildcards have been confirmed as Zhou Jinhao, Wang Xinbo, Han Fuyuan, and Qiu Lei, however who they’ll play amongst Murphy, Si Jiahui, Chris Wakelin, and Carter will likely be decided on the match’s opening ceremony.
World quantity 17 Carter, who gained the Shanghai Masters in 2010, wasn’t presupposed to be within the draw this 12 months however obtained a name as much as exchange Mark Allen, who withdrew as a result of private causes.
2025 Shanghai Masters draw
Spherical of 24 (bo11)
Neil Robertson vs Pang Junxu
Monday, July twenty eighth – 12:30pm
Shaun Murphy vs Han Fuyuan
Monday, July twenty eighth – 12:30pm
Xiao Guodong vs Lei Peifan
Tuesday, July twenty ninth – 2:30am
Ali Carter vs Qiu Lei
Tuesday, July twenty ninth – 2:30am
Si Jiahui vs Wang Xinbo
Monday, July twenty eighth – 2:30am
Barry Hawkins vs Wu Yize
Monday, July twenty eighth – 2:30am
Zhang Anda vs Yuan Sijun
Monday, July twenty eighth – 7am
Chris Wakelin vs Zhou Jinhao
Monday, July twenty eighth – 7am
Spherical of 16 (bo11)
Judd Trump vs Robertson/Pang
Tuesday, July twenty ninth – 12:30pm
Mark Selby vs Murphy/Han
Tuesday, July twenty ninth – 7am
John Higgins vs Xiao/Lei
Wednesday, July thirtieth – 7am
Mark Williams vs Carter/Qiu
Wednesday, July thirtieth – 7am
Kyren Wilson vs Si/Wang
Tuesday, July twenty ninth – 7am
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Hawkins/Wu
Wednesday, July thirtieth – 12:30pm
Ding Junhui vs Zhang/Yuan
Tuesday, July twenty ninth – 12:30pm
Zhao Xintong vs Wakelin/Zhou
Wednesday, July thirtieth – 12:30pm
The quarter-finals (bo11) will likely be performed on Thursday, July thirty first. Schedule TBC.
The semi-finals (bo19) will likely be performed on Friday, August 1st and Saturday, August 2nd. Schedule TBC.
The last (bo21) will likely be performed on Sunday, August third at 7am and 12:30pm.
All occasions are in UTC+1 (BST)
The best way to watch the 2025 Shanghai Masters?
There are a number of choices obtainable to look at the upcoming snooker stay, relying in your location.
Beneath is a full record, as revealed on the World Snooker Tour web site:
UK and Eire
TNT Sports activities and discovery+
Mainland Europe
Eurosport and domestically related streaming platforms
(discovery+ in Germany, Italy and Austria, HBO Max in all different markets)
China
SMG
Huya
Migu
CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel (pay-per-view)
CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China
Now Sports activities
Malaysia
Astro Supersport
Philippines
Faucet Sports activities
Taiwan
Sportcast
Thailand
True Sport
All different territories
WST Play
Featured photograph credit score: WST
