Snooker Season 2025/26

7 of the 8 games are 5-4 after the first session. Yuelong 6-3 over Holt the only one with a bigger lead.
(Fairly sure I posted much the same thing this day last season).

https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/articles/c8dll6g4dp3o

Summary of final qualifying results and todays’s fixtures for the. WC.

Final qualifying round results and fixtures

Tuesday's results (first to 10)

• Hossein Vafaei (Iran) 10-4 Gao Yang (China)
• Stuart Bingham (England) 7-10 Matthew Stevens (Wales)
• Noppon Saengkham (Thailand) 8-10 Liam Pullen (England)
• Jiang Jun (China) 9-10 Stan Moody (England)
• David Gilbert (England) 10-6 Aaron Hill (Republic of Ireland) 
• Zhou Yuelong (China) 10-4 Michael Holt (England)
• Pang Junxu (China) 10-8 Jackson Page (Wales)
• Jamie Jones (Wales) 8-10 Antoni Kowalski (Poland)

Wednesday's fixtures

• Zhang Anda (China) v Zak Surety (England)
• Gary Wilson (England) v Xu Si (China)
• Jack Lisowski (England) v He Guoqiang (China)
• Ryan Day (Wales) v Lei Peifan (China)
• Ali Carter (England) v Anthony McGill (Scotland)
• Fan Zhengyi (China) v Ben Mertens (Belgium)
• Liam Highfield (England) v Oliver Lines (England)
• Luca Brecel (Belgium) v Jak Jones (Wales)

When the qualifiers are decided, will there be an open draw between the top 16 and qualifiers or isn't here a formula to decide first round matches?

its not an open draw amongst the top 16, if they win the first game its 1 v 16, 2 v 15 etc

if they win the first round……

Zhao Xintong v 
Ding Junhui v 

Xiao Guodong v 
Shaun Murphy v                                    

John Higgins v                                                                                                  
Ronnie O'Sullivan v                                                        

Chris Wakelin v                                                                        
Neil Robertson v  

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Kyren Wilson v                                                                                                              
Mark Allen v                                                     

Barry Hawkins v                                                                        
Mark Williams v                                                             

Mark Selby v                                                                                                     
Wu Yize v                                                          

Si Jiahui v                                                                    
Judd Trump v 

Sorry meant just for the first round vs qualifiers.

Ronnie vs Higgins would be nice!

Ronnie, good Dublin man these days.

Pretty convincing wins all round this evening bar the Wilson match at 8 all.

Jak Jones seems to be in good shape, he might go far again.

No that’s them all. Moody seems to be around ages already to me. So I wouldn’t have got that one.

Ronnie in Smiths Haddington Road last night

Full bracket.

• Zhao Xintong (China, 1) v Liam Highfield (England)
• Ding Junhui (China, 16) v David Gilbert (England)
• Xiao Guodong (China, 9) v Zhou Yuelong (China)
• Shaun Murphy (England, 8) v Fan Zhengyi (China)

• John Higgins (Scotland, 5) v Ali Carter (England)
• Ronnie O'Sullivan (England, 12) v He Guoqiang (China)
• Chris Wakelin (England, 13) v Liam Pullen (England)
• Neil Robertson (Australia, 4) v Pang Junxu (China)
  

• Kyren Wilson (England, 3) v Stan Moody (England)
• Mark Allen (Northern Ireland, 14) v Zhang Anda (China)
• Barry Hawkins (England, 11) v Matthew Stevens (Wales)
• Mark Williams (Wales, 6) v Antoni Kowalski (Poland)

• Mark Selby (England, 7) v Jak Jones (Wales)
• Wu Yize (China, 10) v Lei Peifan (China)
• Si Jiahui (China, 15) v Hossein Vafaei (Iran)
• Judd Trump (England, 2) v Gary Wilson (England)