World Snooker Championship draw LIVE: Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump learn fates
In the next two days, Ronnie O'Sullivan will decide if he will compete at the World Snooker Championship.
He has sat out all competitive tournaments since January, but reportedly enjoyed a good week of practice in Saudi Arabia and is leaning towards playing.
"I haven’t made my mind up," the Rocket said last week. "I’ll probably make a decision on maybe the 17th or 18th of April.
"I’d love to be able to go there and play, I’d love to be able to have the confidence to be able to get my cue out and go and play snooker.
"I just need to give myself as much time as possible to see where I’m at with it, and see whether it’s something I’m going to be able to do."
A host of top players fell during qualifying, most notably Jack Lisowski who will not be featuring at the Crucible this year.
The Essex potter, often compared to Ronnie O'Sullivan, is yet to win a ranking title in his career and has been described as the most talented player never to do so.
Stephen Maguire, Stuart Bingham and Anthony McGill also failed to qualify.
Judgement Day saw plenty of promising snooker stars knocked out, including Jackson Page who already picked up a £147,000 cheque for two 147 breaks in the same match earlier this week.
Tuesday April 15
Gary Wilson 9-10 Daniel Wells
Zhou Yuelong 10-5 Yuan Sijun
Ricky Walden 3-10 Zak Surety
Ross Muir 4-10 Ben Woollaston
Elliot Slessor 8-10 Zhao Xintong
Ryan Day 10-5 Sunny Akani
Martin O’Donnell 2-10 Chris Wakelin
David Gilbert 10-9 Aaron Hill
Wednesday April 16
Fan Zhengyi 10-3 Michael Holt
Hossein Vafaei 10-4 Wang Yuchen
Ali Carter 10-5 He Guoqiang
Pang Junxu 10-6 Jamie Jones
Lei Peifan 10-9 Gao Yang
Joe O’Connor 10-7 Jackson Page
Wu Yize 10-9 Matthew Stevens
Matt Selt 10-9 Jimmy Robertson
Ronnie O'Sullivan is in the draw for the 2025 World Snooker Championship, he will be given his opponent today, assuming the Rocket does not pull out of the competition in the next hour.
The seven-time world champion has not competed professionally since January, however, when he snapped his cue at the Championship League.
He is set to make a late decision in the coming days over whether he will play in Sheffield.
Though Sky Sports claim that he is leaning towards competing after a promising week of practice in Saudi Arabia.
The draw for the World Snooker Championship is seeded, meaning the top 16 players cannot be drawn against each other in the first round.
We won't be getting Ronnie O'Sullivan against Judd Trump right away.
The top 16 will each be drawn against a player who came through qualifying, which was completed last night.
The top 16 players in the world are joined by another 16 players who came through qualifying to reach the Crucible.
Seeds
1) Kyren Wilson, 2) Judd Trump, 3) John Higgins, 4) Mark Selby
5) Ronnie O'Sullivan, 6) Mark Williams, 7) Luca Brecel, 8) Mark Allen
9) Neil Robertson, 10) Ding Junhui, 11) Barry Hawkins, 12) Zhang Anda
13) Si Jiahui 14) Xiao Guodong, 15) Shaun Murphy, 16) Jak Jones
Qualifiers
Chris Wakelin, Zak Surety, Zhao Xintong, Zhou Yuelong
Ryan Day, Ben Woollaston, David Gilbert, Daniel Wells
Fan Zhengyi, Hossein Vafaei, Ali Carter, Pang Junxu
Lei Peifan, Joe O’Connor, Matt Selt, Wu Yize
Hello and welcome to Express Sport's live coverage of the World Snooker Championship draw, which takes place this morning.
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