World Open Round 2, Day 1

Date
Mon 16th March 2026 (UTC)
Mon 16th March 2026 (Local)

Timestamp
2026-03-16T00:00:00

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00:00:00 UTC

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World Snooker

Season
2025-2026

Round
32

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The 2026 World Open is a professional snooker tournament that will take place from 16 to 22 March 2026 in Yushan, China. Qualifiers took place from 10 to 12 February at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. The 11th edition of the tournament since it was rebranded as the World Open in 2010, it will be the 16th ranking event of the 2025‍–‍26 snooker season, following the 2026 Welsh Open and preceding the 2026 Tour Championship. The winner will receive £175,000 from a total prize fund of £825,000.
John Higgins will be the defending champion, having defeated Joe O'Connor 10‍–‍6 in the 2025 final.

All matches are played as the best of nine frames up to and including the quarter-finals. The semi-finals will be the best of 11 frames and the final will be a best of 19-frame match played over two sessions.

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Monday 16th March

Qual Rounds 1&2 Held over to main arena
Mitchell Mann v Wildcard
John Higgins v Liam Highfield
R O'Sullivan v Ross Muir
Judd Trump v M Lloyd
Jackson Page v Wildcard
Zhang Anda v Wildcard
Xiao Guodong v Ben Mertens
Zhao Xintong v Wildcard

Round 2, Day 1
Lei Peifan v Ryan Day
Xu Si (w/o) v Stephen Maguire
Umut Dikme v Xu Yichen
Artemijs Zizins (w/o) v Chris Wakelin
Matthew Selt (w/o) v David Gilbert
Jak Jones v Luca Brecel
Zhou Yuelong v He Guoqiang
David Lilley v Shaun Murphy
Zhao Hanyang v Robbie Williams
Zak Surety v Allan Taylor
Jack Lisowski v Cheung Ka Wai
Matthew Stevens v Hossein Vafaei
Anthony McGill v Stuart Bingham
David Grace v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Elliot Slessor v Daniel Wells
Ricky Walden v Mitchell Mann / Wildcard

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