Halo World Championship Round 1

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Sat 18th April 2026 10:00am Local
Sat 18th April 2026 9:00am UTC

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League
World Snooker

Season
2025-2026

Round
35

Status
FT

Location
Crucible Theatre

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The 2026 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2026 Halo World Snooker Championship) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 18 April to 4 May 2026 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 50th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship will be staged at the venue. Organised by the World Snooker Tour, the tournament will be the 18th and final ranking event of the 2025–‍26 snooker season.
The top 16 players from the snooker world rankings—as they stand after the 2026 Tour Championship—will be seeded through to the main stage at the Crucible. They will be joined by the 16 successful players from the qualifying rounds, which are taking place from 6 to 15 April at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, featuring 128 professional and invited amateur competitors.
Zhao Xintong will be the defending champion, having defeated Mark Williams 18–12 in the 2025 final to win his maiden world title. Zhao will be the 21st player to face the so-called Crucible curse, referring to the fact that no first-time champion has retained the title since the tournament moved to the Crucible in 1977

Round 1 Games Played Sat 18th-Wed 22nd
Last 32 Best of 19 Losers receive £20,000

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Result Description

1 Zhao Xintong 10-7 Liam Highfield
2 Ding Junhui 10-5 David Gilbert
3 Xiao Guodong 10-6 Zhou Yuelong
4 Shaun Murphy 10-9 Fan Zhengyi
5 John Higgins 10-7 Ali Carter
6 Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-2 He Guoqiang
7 Chris Wakelin 10-6 Liam Pullen
8 Neil Robertson 10-6 Pang Junxu
9 Kyren Wilson 10-7 Stan Moody
10 Mark Allen 10-6 Zhang Anda
11 Barry Hawkins 10-4 Matthew Stevens
12 Mark J Williams 10-4 Antoni Kowalski
13 Mark Selby v 10-2 Jak Jones
14 Wu Yize 10-2 Lei Peifan
15 Hossein Vafaei 10-3 Si Jiahui
16 Judd Trump 10-5 Gary Wilson

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