The Snooker World Championship 2022 Qualifiers kicked-off on 4th April 2022, we take a look at the latest qualifiers results, 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 Results, Schedule, Dates, 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 Results, Schedule, Draw, Date, and Time
Players seeded 17–48 will compete against the second-round winners in the third round of 2022 snooker world championship qualifiers. In the third round of qualifying, five amateur players will compete against the professionals. Dale was given a walkover after the World Snooker Tour announced that Liang, his third-round opponent, would not be able to compete owing to his suspension.
Amateur player Liam Davies’s miracle run ended in the third qualifying round as he lost 5-6 in a nail-biting match against Jordan Brown. Meanwhile, another amateur player Michael White thrashed world number 41 Mark King in the third round.
9th April Second Round Results
Pang Junxu 6-1 Farakh Ajaib
Jamie Clarke 6-5 Si Jiahui
Stuart Carrington 3-6 Lei Peifan
Simon Lichtenberg 6-4 Wu Yize
9th April Third Round Results
Ricky Walden 4-6 Allan Taylor
Li Hang 5-6 Scott Donaldson
Liang Wenbo v Dominic Dale(Walkover)
Lu Ning 3-6 Lyu Haotian
Stephen Maguire 6-3 Zhang Jiankang
Zhou Yuelong 6-5 Zhang Anda
Mark King 1-6 Michael White
Jordan Brown 6-5 Liam Davies
10th April Third Round Schedule
Matthew Selt v Lukas Kleckers
Jak Jones v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Tom Ford v Michael Holt
Jamie Jones v Mark Joyce
David Gilbert v TBC
Anthony Hamilton v Elliot Slessor
Jimmy Robertson v Oliver Lines
Fan Zhengyi v Chris Wakeline
Kurt Maflin v David Lilley
Ding Junhui v Tian Pengfei
Ben Woollaston v Joe O’Connor
Martin Gould v Ashley Hugill
11th April Third Round Schedule
Graeme Dott v TBC
Gary Wilson v TBC
Alexander Ursenbacher v TBC
Hossein Vafaei v TBC
Noppon Saengkham v Daniel Wells
Robert Milkins v Cao Yupeng
Liam Highfield v James Cahill
Ryan Day v Yuan SiJun
Ali Carter v Gao Yang
Sam Craigie v Matthew Stevens
Joe Perry v Jackson Page
Xiao Guodong v David Grace
When And Where To Watch: Live Stream And On TV Coverage Telecast
The tournament is 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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