Wuhan Open: 2025 draw, preview, prize cash, watch

The venue phases of the 2025 Wuhan Open start on Sunday with the likes of Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson, and Zhao Xintong within the draw.

The season’s third rating occasion will see the World Snooker Tour return to China following the current Shanghai Masters invitational, which was received by Wilson.

Neil Robertson and Ronnie O’Sullivan contested the final rating occasion ultimate every week in the past after they battled for the £500,000 prime prize on the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.

Neither of the pair can be in motion in Wuhan, nonetheless, after opting to withdraw from this 12 months’s version of the competitors.

The prize cash right here doesn’t fairly match what was on provide in Jeddah, however there may be nonetheless a good-looking champion’s cheque price £140,000 up for grabs.

Wuhan Open prize cash
Champion: £140,000
Runner-up: £63,000
Semi-final: £30,000
Quarter-final: £16,000
Final 16: £12,000
Final 32: £8,000
Final 64: £4,500
Highest break: £5,000
Complete: £700,000

Who’re the previous champions?

Having been launched as lately as 2023, the Wuhan Open is likely one of the newer rating occasions on the calendar.

On the time, it was the primary rating match to be staged in China in nearly 4 years following the worldwide pandemic.

Judd Trump emerged because the inaugural winner by beating Ali Carter within the first ultimate, whereas Xiao Guodong triumphed a 12 months later in 2024.

For Xiao, his success over fellow Chinese language potter Si Jiahui secured him a maiden rating crown after nearly twenty years competing as knowledgeable on the principle tour.

Who’s within the 2025 Wuhan Open draw?

Because the reigning champion, Xiao Guodong is the highest seed within the 2025 Wuhan Open draw with reigning world champion Zhao Xintong within the different half because the second seed.

The duo are amongst just a few gamers who’ve had their round-of-128 fixtures held over from the qualifying part that was already held in June.

Xiao will encounter girls’s world primary Mink Nutcharut whereas Zhao is ready to face Ukraine’s Iulian Boiko.

Judd Trump, Ding Junhui, and Mark Allen are just a few of the others who’ve had their preliminary video games within the occasion deferred.

The vast majority of the opposite contenders have already reached the final 64 having safely negotiated their preliminary matches in Leicester.

That features Kyren Wilson, Mark Williams, John Higgins, Mark Selby, Shaun Murphy, and Barry Hawkins.

Stephen Maguire, who received the 2025/26 season-opening Championship League Snooker rating occasion, can be within the area.

2025 Wuhan Open Draw

Spherical of 128 (bo9)

Xiao Guodong vs Mink Nutcharut (held over)
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 5-1 Yao Pengcheng
Elliot Slessor 5-4 Oliver Strains
Ricky Walden 4-5 David Grace
Chris Wakelin 3-5 Marco Fu
Anthony McGill 2-5 Jimmy White
Wu Yize 2-5 Louis Heathcote
Matthew Selt 5-4 Sunny Akani

Xu Si 5-1 Chris Totten
Jak Jones 5-0 Oliver Brown
Jamie Jones 5-4 Liu Wenwei
Barry Hawkins 5-1 Julien Leclercq
Noppon Saengkham 5-0 Robbie McGuigan
Zhou Yuelong 5-2 Lan Yuhao
Stan Moody 5-2 Antoni Kowalski
Ding Junhui vs TBC Wildcard (held over)

Mark Williams 5-0 Chatchapong Nasa
Mark Davis 4-5 Liam Davies
Joe O’Connor 5-4 Jiang Jun
Ben Woollaston 5-1 Ken Doherty
Mark Selby 5-1 Alexander Ursenbacher
Michael Holt 5-3 Liam Graham
David Gilbert 5-1 Cheung Ka Wai
Haris Tahir w/o Luca Brecel

Daniel Wells 4-5 Chang Bingyu
Stuart Bingham 2-5 Liam Highfield
Sanderson Lam 1-5 Zhao Hanyang
Zhang Anda 5-2 Steven Hallworth
Jimmy Robertson 5-4 Liam Pullen
Lei Peifan 5-3 Ng On Yee
Aaron Hill 5-1 Sam Craigie
Kyren Wilson 5-0 Connor Benzey

Judd Trump vs Farakh Ajaib (held over)
Liu Hongyu 5-3 Ian Burns
Jack Lisowski 5-3 Amir Sarkhosh
Ryan Day 5-1 Jonas Luz
Shaun Murphy 5-0 Michal Szubarczyk
Jordan Brown 5-1 Duane Jones
Gary Wilson 5-2 Gao Yang
Lyu Haotian 5-3 Bai Yulu

Martin O’Donnell 1-5 Haydon Pinhey
Tom Ford 5-2 Mateusz Baranowski
David Lilley 4-5 Reanne Evans
Neil Robertson 5-0 Leone Crowley
He Guoqiang 1-5 Artemijs Zizins
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Xu Yichen
Lengthy Zehuang 3-5 Dylan Emery
John Higgins 5-2 Huang Jiahao

Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Allan Taylor (held over)
Scott Donaldson 5-4 Mitchell Mann
Pang Junxu 5-4 Hatem Yassen
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-0 Fergal Quinn
Mark Allen vs TBC Wildcard (held over)
Zak Surety 5-1 Gong Chenzhi
Hossein Vafaei vs TBC Wildcard (held over)
Fan Zhengyi 3-5 Ben Mertens

Jackson Web page 5-3 Ross Muir
Ali Carter 5-2 Florian Nuessle
Robert Milkins 1-5 Wang Yuchen
Si Jiahui 5-2 Bulcsu Revesz
Robbie Williams vs TBC Wildcard (held over)
Stephen Maguire 5-1 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Matthew Stevens 5-2 Sahil Nayyar
Zhao Xintong vs Iulian Boiko (held over)

Spherical of 64 (bo9)

Matches to be performed on Sunday, August twenty fourth and Monday, August twenty fifth

Xiao/Nutcharut vs Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Elliot Slessor vs David Grace
Marco Fu vs Jimmy White
Louis Heathcote vs Matthew Selt
Xu Si vs Jak Jones
Jamie Jones vs Barry Hawkins
Noppon Saengkham vs Zhou Yuelong
Stan Moody vs Ding/Wildcard

Mark Williams vs Liam Davies
Joe O’Connor vs Ben Woollaston
Mark Selby vs Michael Holt
David Gilbert vs Haris Tahir
Chang Bingyu vs Liam Highfield
Zhao Hanyang vs Zhang Anda
Jimmy Robertson vs Lei Peifan
Aaron Hill vs Kyren Wilson

Trump/Ajaib vs Liu Hongyu
Jack Lisowski w/o Ryan Day
Shaun Murphy vs Jordan Brown
Gary Wilson vs Lyu Haotian
Haydon Pinhey vs Tom Ford
Reanne Evans w/o Neil Robertson
Artemijs Zizins vs Yuan Sijun
Dylan Emery vs John Higgins

Dikme/Taylor vs Scott Donaldson
Pang Junxu vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Allen/Wildcard vs Zak Surety
Vafaei/Wildcard vs Ben Mertens
Jackson Web page vs Ali Carter
Wang Yuchen vs Si Jiahui
R. Williams/Wildcard vs Stephen Maguire
Matthew Stevens vs Zhao/Boiko

Click on right here to view the total up to date draw (snooker.org)

How one can watch the 2025 Wuhan Open

There are a number of choices obtainable to observe the upcoming snooker stay, relying in your location.

Beneath is a full listing, as printed on the World Snooker Tour web site:

UK & Eire 
TNT Sports activities and discovery+
Mainland Europe
Domestically related streaming platforms
(discovery+ in Germany, Italy and Austria and HBO Max in all different markets)
China
CCTV5
Huya.com
Migu
CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel
CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China
Now TV
Malasyia & Brunei 
Astro Supersport
Taiwan
Sportcast
Thailand
True Sport
All different territories
WST Play

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