The Snooker World Championship 2022 Qualifiers are set to kick-off on 4th April 2022 , we take a look at the schedule, draw, dates, time, TV coverage
The World Championship in 2022 is planned to begin in April, but the vital qualifying will take place first.
The World Championship will be contested in Sheffield, United Kingdom, for the 46th year in a row, and it will be the 16th and final ranking event of the 2021–22 snooker season.
Snooker World Championship 2022 Qualifiers Schedule, Date, Time, Draw, Tickets, Players, Rules And Live Stream TV
The Snooker World Championship begins on April 16, 2022, and concludes on May 2, 2022. However, the 2022 Snooker World Championship Qualifiers will take place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield from April 4 to 13.
Tickets for the fixtures can be bought here. The tickets are priced at 10 pounds per day.
Qualifiers Tournament Format And Rules
The English Institute of Sport will host a qualifying tournament for 128 players a week before the championship begins. Over the course of a week, that group will be pared down to only 16, with the winners joining the top 16 players in the snooker rankings in the first round draw.
In the first, second, and third preliminary rounds, qualifying matches will be best-of-11 frames, followed by best-of-19 matches in the fourth and final qualifying round. The players will enter the qualifiers at different rounds as per their rankings.
Snooker World Championship 2022 Qualifiers Schedule, Draw, Date, and Time
4th April First Round Schedule
09:30 GMT
Zhao Jianbo v Michael Judge
Xu Si v Michael Collumb
Zhang Jiankang v John J Astley
Zhang Anda v Anton Kazakov
14:30 GMT
Alfie Burden v Robbie McGuigan
Duane Jones v Nutcharut Wongharuthai
Fraser Patrick v Michael White
Aaron Hill v Liam Davies
19:30 GMT
Lukas Kleckers v Soheil Vahedi
Andrew Pagett v Jimmy White
Hammad Miah v Chen Zifan
Louis Heathcote v Ben Mertens
5th April First Round Schedule
09:30 GMT
Barry Pinches v Lee Stephens
Rory McLeod v Ng On Yee
Chang Bingyu v Daniel Wells
Yuan SiJun v Ross Muir
14:30 GMT
Ian Burns v Marco Fu
Peter Devlin v Yorrit Hoes
Jamie Wilson v Jake Crofts
Peter Lines v Sanderson Lam
19:30 GMT
Craig Steadman v David Lilley
Lee Walker v Reanne Evans
Ben Hancorn v Dean Young
Jamie O’Neill v James Cahill
Second Round
Allan Taylor v TBC
Scott Donaldson v TBC
Dominic Dale v TBC
Lyu Haotian v TBC
Sunny Akani v TBC
Andy Hicks v TBC
Martin O’Donnell v TBC
Fergal O’Brien v TBC
Nigel Bond v TBC
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v TBC
Michael Holt v TBC
Mark Joyce v TBC
Robbie Williams v TBC
Tian Pengfei v TBC
Joe O’Connor v TBC
Ashley Hugill v TBC
Ken Doherty v TBC
Elliot Slessor v TBC
Oliver Lines v TBC
Chris Wakelin v TBC
Andrew Higginson v TBC
Cao Yupeng v TBC
Mark Davis v TBC
Steven Hallworth v TBC
Gao Yang v TBC
Matthew Stevens v TBC
Ashley Carty v TBC
David Grace v TBC
Pang Junxu v TBC
Jamie Clarke v TBC
Stuart Carrington v TBC
Simon Lichtenberg v TBC
Third Round
Ricky Walden v TBC
Li Hang v TBC
Liang Wenbo v TBC
Lu Ning v TBC
Stephen Maguire v TBC
Zhou Yuelong v TBC
Mark King v TBC
Jordan Brown v TBC
Matthew Selt v TBC
Jak Jones v TBC
Tom Ford v TBC
Jamie Jones v TBC
Kurt Maflin v TBC
Ding Junhui v TBC
Ben Woollaston v TBC
Martin Gould v TBC
David Gilbert v TBC
Anthony Hamilton v TBC
Jimmy Robertson v TBC
Fan Zhengyi v TBC
Noppon Saengkham v TBC
Robert Milkins v TBC
Liam Highfield v TBC
Ryan Day v TBC
Ali Carter v TBC
Sam Craigie v TBC
Joe Perry v TBC
Xiao Guodong v TBC
Graeme Dott v TBC
Gary Wilson v TBC
Alexander Ursenbacher v TBC
Hossein Vafaei v TBC
When And Where To Watch: Live Stream And TV Coverage Telecast
The tournament will be broadcasted live in China on Liaoning TV, Superstar online, Kuaishou, Migu, Youku, and Huya.com. Eurosports will broadcast the match live in Europe. Meanwhile, Matchroom Sport will stream the event live in all other territories.
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