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The 2025 World Open is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 24 February to 2 March 2025 in China. The sixth edition of the World Open since 2016, it's the 14th ranking event of the 2024–25 season. The winner will receive £175,000 from a total prize fund of £825,000.
Judd Trump is the two-time defending champion, having successfully defended his 2019 title by defeating Ding Junhui 10–4 in the final of the 2024 event.
Format
The tournament will take place from 24 February to 2 March 2025 in China. The 14th ranking event of the 2024–25 season (following the 2025 Welsh Open and preceding the 2025 World Grand Prix), and the fifth and last major tournament of the season to be held in mainland China, the tournament is the sixth edition of the World Open since 2016. Originally created in 1982 as the Professional Players Tournament, the tournament was held in the UK as the Grand Prix and LG Cup from 1984 to 2009, and was renamed the World Open in 2010. China hosted the event from 2012 to 2014 in Haikou, and in Yushan since 2016.
Qualification for the tournament will take place from 20 to 22 December 2024 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. Qualifying matches involving defending champion Judd Trump, reigning World Champion Kyren Wilson, the two highest‑ranked Chinese players (Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda), four Chinese wildcards, and Ronnie O'Sullivan are held over to be played at the main venue.
All matches are played as the best of nine frames up to and including the quarter‑finals. The semi‑finals are the best of 11 frames and the final is a best of 19 frames match played over two sessions.
Judd Trump is the two-time defending champion, having won the event in 2019 and again, after a five-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2024, defeating 2017 World Open champion Ding Junhui 10–4 in the final.
= Prize fund
=The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:
Total: £825,000
Main draw
The draw for the tournament will be shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players. Players in bold denote match winners.
= Top half
== Bottom half
=Qualifying
Qualification for the tournament will take place from 20 to 22 December at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. Matches involving defending champion Judd Trump, reigning World Champion Kyren Wilson, the two highest-ranked Chinese players Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, four Chinese wildcards, and Ronnie O'Sullivan have been held over to be played at the final venue. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, an "a" indicates amateur players who were not on the main World Snooker Tour, and players in bold denote match winners.
= China
=The results of the held-over matches to be played in China on 24 February are as follows:
= Sheffield
=The results of the qualifying matches played in Sheffield are as follows:
20 December
21 December
22 December
References
External links
Official website