A total of 128 players are set to participate in the 2024 World Snooker Championship qualifiers draw at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
The action gets under way on Monday, April 8th and runs until Wednesday, April 17th.
Sixteen players will qualify from the preliminary stages to join the top 16 from the world rankings in the first-round draw at the Crucible Theatre.
What’s the format?
As in previous years, a tiered structure is being used for the qualifiers with the first round taking place between the players seeded from 81-112 against those seeded from 113-144.
A number of amateurs have been invited as top-ups – mostly through invitations from the WPBSA for achievements in the last year.
The players seeded from 49 to 80 – based on the world rankings list – will enter the fray and take on the winners from round one in round two.
Those ranked from 17-48 will finally join the action in round three, with two victories then required to seal one of the 16 coveted spots at the venue stages.
Every round will be contested over two sessions and 19 frames.
World Snooker Championship qualifiers draw
All matches are the best of 19 frames played across two sessions.
Scorelines in italics indicate the end of the first session.
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Qualifier 1
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 1 | Jimmy White w/o Martin Gould | Jimmy White 3-10 Liu Hongyu | Liu Hongyu 4-10 Jack Lisowski | |
| Jack Lisowski 10-3 Matthew Stevens | ||||
| 2 | Ryan Thomerson 3-10 Liam Davies | Liam Davies 2-10 Jimmy Robertson | Jimmy Robertson 6-10 Matthew Stevens |
Qualifier 2
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 3 | Ian Burns 10-1 Dean Young | Ian Burns 10-7 Mark Joyce | Ian Burns 7-10 Ricky Walden | |
| Ricky Walden 10-9 Mark Davis | ||||
| 4 | Andy Lee 9-10 Andrew Pagett | Andrew Pagett 2-10 Mark Davis | Mark Davis 10-8 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh |
Qualifier 3
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 5 | Rory Thor 10-2 Hamza Ilyas | Rory Thor 8-10 David Grace | David Grace 6-10 Dominic Dale | |
| Dominic Dale 10-8 He Guoqiang | ||||
| 6 | Ross Muir 10-9 Cheung Ka Wai | Ross Muir 8-10 He Guoqiang | He Guoqiang 10-5 Anthony McGill |
Qualifier 4
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 7 | Alfie Burden 10-1 Rebecca Kenna | Alfie Burden 10-3 Xu Si | Alfie Burden 5-10 Jamie Jones | |
| Jamie Jones 10-9 Neil Robertson | ||||
| 8 | Ishpreet Singh Chadha 6-10 Gao Yang | Gao Yang 6-10 Zak Surety | Zac Surety 2-10 Neil Robertson |
Qualifier 5
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 9 | Sean O’Sullivan 8-10 Bulscu Revesz | Bulscu Revesz 8-10 James Cahill | James Cahill 0-10 Zhou Yuelong | |
| Zhou Yuelong 4-10 Jak Jones | ||||
| 10 | Andres Petrov 10-1 Ahmed Elsayed | Andres Petrov 7-10 Jamie Clarke | Jamie Clarke 6-10 Jak Jones |
Qualifier 6
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 11 | Adam Duffy 10-5 Mink Nutcharut | Adam Duffy 4-10 Ashley Hugill | Ashley Hugill 7-10 Stephen Maguire | |
| Stephen Maguire 10-6 Yuan Sijun | ||||
| 12 | Andrew Higginson 10-7 Duane Jones | Andrew Higginson 8-10 Michael White | Michael White 8-10 Yuan Sijun |
Qualifier 7
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 13 | Louis Heathcote 10-4 Oliver Sykes | Louis Heathcote 10-7 Oliver Lines | Louis Heathcote 10-8 Elliot Slessor | |
| Louis Heathcote 8-10 Stuart Bingham | ||||
| 14 | Stuart Carrington 10-5 Himanshu Jain | Stuart Carrington 10-9 Liam Highfield | Stuart Carrington 9-10 Stuart Bingham |
Qualifier 8
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 15 | Alexander Ursenbacher 10-0 Iulian Boiko | Alexander Ursenbacher 7-10 Anthony Hamilton | Anthony Hamilton 5-10 Robbie Williams | |
| Robbie Williams 10-9 Chris Wakelin | ||||
| 16 | Allan Taylor 10-6 Vladislav Gradinari | Allan Taylor 9-10 Lukas Kleckers | Lukas Kleckers 5-10 Chris Wakelin |
Qualifier 9
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 17 | Marco Fu 10-1 Baipat Siripaporn | Marco Fu 10-6 Ken Doherty | Marco Fu 4-10 Hossein Vafaei | |
| Hossein Vafaei 10-5 Jiang Jun | ||||
| 18 | Jiang Jun 10-6 Amir Sarkhosh | Jiang Jun 10-8 Fan Zhengyi | Jiang Jun 10-8 Sam Craigie |
Qualifier 10
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 19 | Hammad Miah 2-10 Haydon Pinhey | Haydon Pinhey 3-10 Julien Leclercq | Julien Leclercq 1-10 Joe O’Connor | |
| Joe O’Connor 10-8 Matthew Selt | ||||
| 20 | Daniel Womersley w/o Muhammad Asif | Daniel Womersley 3-10 Aaron Hill | Aaron Hill 4-10 Matthew Selt |
Qualifier 11
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 21 | Ma Hailong 10-1 Victor Sarkis | Ma Hailong 10-7 Martin O’Donnell | Ma Hailong 4-10 Cao Yupeng | |
| Cao Yupeng 8-10 Pang Junxu | ||||
| 22 | Oliver Brown 10-0 Reanne Evans | Oliver Brown 10-8 Dylan Emery | Oliver Brown 7-10 Pang Junxu |
Qualifier 12
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 23 | Fergal O’Brien 8-10 Mostafa Dorgham | Mostafa Dorgham 5-10 Graeme Dott | Graeme Dott 5-10 Jackson Page | |
| Jackson Page 10-9 Noppon Saengkham | ||||
| 24 | Long Zehuang 10-1 Sydney Wilson | Long Zehuang 2-10 Andy Hicks | Andy Hicks 5-10 Noppon Saengkham |
Qualifier 13
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 25 | Rod Lawler 10-7 Gong Chenzhi | Rod Lawler 9-10 Ben Mertens | Ben Mertens 9-10 Si Jiahui | |
| Si Jiahui 10-4 Wu Yize | ||||
| 26 | Stan Moody 6-10 Mohamed Shehab | Mohamed Shebab 8-10 Tian Pengfei | Tian Pengfei 8-10 Wu Yize |
Qualifier 14
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 27 | Xing Zihao 10-6 Michael Holt | Xing Zihao 5-10 Daniel Wells | Daniel Wells 8-10 Lyu Haotian | |
| Lyu Haotian 10-7 Jenson Kendrick | ||||
| 28 | Jenson Kendrick 10-7 Bai Yulu | Jenson Kendrick 10-8 Ben Woollaston | Jenson Kendrick 10-5 Jordan Brown |
Qualifier 15
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 29 | Liam Pullen 10-3 Anton Kazakov | Liam Pullen 8-10 Sanderson Lam | Sanderson Lam 2-10 Xiao Guodong | |
| Xiao Guodong 6-10 David Gilbert | ||||
| 30 | Peng Yisong 10-5 Manasawin Phetmalaikul | Peng Yisong 9-10 David Lilley | David Lilley 4-10 David Gilbert |
Qualifier 16
| Route | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 31 | Mohamed Ibrabim 6-10 Peter Lines | Peter Lines 6-10 Scott Donaldson | Scott Donaldson 10-6 Joe Perry | |
| Scott Donaldson 9-10 Ryan Day | ||||
| 32 | Ashley Carty 10-4 Liam Graham | Ashley Carty 6-10 John Astley | John Astley 6-10 Ryan Day |
How to watch the World Snooker Championship qualifiers
There will be free live coverage of Judgement Day – the fourth and final round of the world qualifiers – on the WST YouTube and Facebook channels.
Other rounds will be available via discovery+, Huya, or Matchroom depending on your location.
Europe
discovery+
China
Huya.com
All other territories
matchroom.live
Featured photo credit: WST
Looks like a fairly easy draw for Robertson, arguably one of the easiest he could have got. Jamie Jones, Xu Si and Zak Surety are the best players he risks meeting. He has a 7-0 H2H against Jones, 1-0 against Xu Si and has never met Surety. None of the others (Burden, Kenna and Singh Chada) have ever beaten him.
This didn’t age well
go white!!!
micheal that is….
White is highly unlikely to qualify for Sheffield but winnable opener as Gould is out of form, partly down to health issues, and under added pressure to save his tour card.
Jamie Jones looks the big danger to Neil Robertson negotiating the qualifiers. Jones does often revel in the longer format.
I think Bingham could miss out as Elliott Slessor is in his pathway. Slessor has made good strides up the rankings this season and could take advantage of an ailing former world champion.
Marco Fu and Ken Doherty could meet in round 2. This would be a repeat of the 2006 Crucible quarter-final between the pair.
Ursenbacher against Boiko looks like one of the more appealing opening round clashes.
The first round draw will take place on Thursday, April 18th, live on Radio 5 Live and the BBC Sport website.
I wasn’t aware of that head-to-head between Jones and Robertson. It’s a concern for the Welshman as the aggregate score in frames is 37-9 to the 2010 World Champion. They’ve not met since 2017. No matter the pathway, Robertson would be a warm favourite. His A-game is amongst the top 5 I’ve ever seen.
Only one 50 break in 16 frames on day one of the World Mixed Doubles Championship.
Can you just start the post with details of which channels to watch on and the date/timings – rather than us having to scroll through acres of text.
Dates/Times for each match have been added. Click on “Times” within each round of each Qualifier bracket. As for options to watch, it will depend on your location. If you’re in Europe, discovery+ will be streaming the qualifiers from round 1. Judgement Day (round 4) will be on WST’s YouTube channel.
Really want Michael Holt to get through. Fabulous player if his head is right
is there a site where you can see who are refereeing these matches?