Snooker World Championship 2019 Qualifying Draw, Schedule, TV Channel, Live Streaming: The 2019 World Snooker Championship is an approaching professional snooker competition, which is going to take place from 20 April. The tournament is also referred to as the 2019 Betfred World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship. It is going to be the 20th and final ranking event of the 2018/2019 season.
Qualifying for the tournament has started from 10 and will go on till 17 April 2019 at the English Institute of Sport, also in Sheffield. The defending champion of World Snooker Championship 2019 is Mark Williams, having defeated John Higgins 18–16 in the final of 2018 World Snooker Championship.
The top 16 seeds at the Crucible are as below:
- Mark Williams
- Ronnie O’Sullivan
- Mark Selby
- Neil Robertson
- John Higgins
- Mark Allen
- Judd Trump
- Kyren Wilson
- Barry Hawkins
- Ding Junhui
- Jack Lisowski
- Stuart Bingham
- Shaun Murphy
- Luca Brecel
- Stephen Maguire
- David Gilbert
When and where 2019 World Snooker Championship will be held?
The 2019 World Snooker Championship is going to start from 20 April and will be held till 6 May 2019 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
How to watch 2019 World Snooker Championship?
The competition is going to be broadcast in Europe by the BBC and Eurosport, and worldwide on Facebook by World Snooker.
2019 World Snooker Championship: Prize fund
The total prize money for the event is greater than any previous snooker event. For the first time, the total prize pool is more than £2 million, with the winner being presented £500,000. For this year the prize money is shown below:
- Winner: £500,000
- Runner-up: £200,000
- Semi-final: £100,000
- Quarterfinal: £50,000
- Last 16: £30,000
- Last 32: £20,000
- Last 48: £15,000
- Last 80: £10,000
- Televised highest break: £10,000
- Non-televised highest break: £1,000
- Total: £2,231,000
2019 Snooker World Championship qualifying draw
Section 1
Ryan Day v Oliver Lines
Tian Pengfei v Soheil Vahedi
Matthew Stevens v Thor Chuan Leong
Chris Wakelin v Fan Zhengyi
Section 2
Gary Wilson v Sanderson Lam
Dominic Dale v Chris Totten
Liang Wenbo v Basem Eltahhan
England v David Grace
Section 3
England v Sam Baird
Marco Fu v Luo Honghao
Sam Craigie v Rhys Clark
Tom Ford v Ross Muir
Section 4
Sunny Akani v Chen Zifan
Robert Milkins v Luke Simmonds
Duane Jones v Kishan Hirani
Anthony McGill v Ashley Hugill
Section 5
Graeme Dott v Hamza Akbar
Xu Si v Sean O’Sullivan
Stuart Carrington v Pang Junxu
Kurt Maflin v Mitchell Mann
Section 6
Li Hang v Niu Zhuang
Ian Burns v Farakh Ajaib
Ben Woollaston v Elliot Slessor
Mike Dunn v Nigel Bond
Section 7
Daniel Wells v Jamie Clarke
Hossein Vafaei v Zhang Anda
Gerard Greene v Aaron Hill
Martin Gould v Mostafa Dorgham
Section 8
Michael Georgiou v Lee Walker
Peter Ebdon v Harvey Chandler
Mei Xi Wen v Florian Nüßle
Yan Bingtao v Lukas Kleckers
Section 9
Ali Carter v Paul Davison
Jimmy White v Ross Bulman
Michael White v Andy Hicks
Yuan Sijun v John Astley
Section 10
Ricky Walden v Alfie Burden
Eden Sharav v David Lilley
Zhou Yuelong v Robin Hull
Liam Highfield v Hammad Miah
Section 11
Fergal O’Brien v Jackson Page
Mark Davis v Rod Lawler
Alexander Ursenbacher v Jordan Brown
Lyu Haotian v Ashley Carty
Section 12
Mark Joyce v Billy Joe Castle
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Jonathan Bagley
Joe O’Connor v Joe Swail
Jimmy Robertson v Chen Feilong
Section 13
Xiao Guodong v Jak Jones
Peter Lines v Zhang Jiankang
Michael Holt v Brandon Sargeant
Andrew Higginson v James Cahill
Section 14
Mark King v Igor Figueiredo
Lu Ning v Allan Taylor
Scott Donaldson v Craig Steadman
Ken Doherty v Andy Lee
Section 15
Anthony Hamilton v James Wattana
Matthew Selt v Dylan Emery
Zhao Xintong v Adam Lilley
Noppon Saengkham v Adam Stefanow
Section 16
Alan McManus v Ng On-yee
Martin O’Donnell v Adam Duffy
Zhang Yong v Reanne Evans
Joe Perry v Simon Lichtenberg
