Tour Championship 2026

5 tons bit of a borefest

Nice slice of luck for Theppy

Few shockers in the Hawk match

Waco fighting back

finding it hard to get into this event

bo19 from the start other than the worlds doesn't work imo

Could still be a long night for Higgins. Despite the big lead at 7-2 hasn't played at all well.

ref cam walofs

Just the 7 frames for Wakelin tonight so far - can Wu stop the rot

wtf is this camera angle

2 fat ladies 8-8

2-6 to 6-10 - 1.02 matched and gawn

6-2 to 6-10

fancy wu yize for next month but tonight is a worry

9-8 john boy

Awful frame this on so far

one*

just need higgins to cough up and then both he and wu will have blown 6-2 leads

More like it

Not seen Rob W - just his voice echoing out across the arena - maybe phoning in from home to save on fuel - or it's AI

Both tables start off with fouls

2 fouls each

bucket maxi alert

booooooo

christ

Judd mile away with that one

2-2 -- Big miss on the red from Shon in frame 3 - Stephen seething about it a the MSI

great chance again

should be end of maxi

4-4 all to play for

7-5 Smurph

Stephen -- "only one player looks like winning the match - Judd is all at sea" - Well, time for Judd to do a Waco and win the next 5

fat murphy has really messed this up

another ton yawn

fat murphy forces the winona

Lumpy appeared for a second there

christ almighty

Whoops

what a chance for fm

bit u/l

hallworth you do talk some utter bs

pmsl

Fist pump - but still going

maybe leave the fist pump for later

wtf

terrible standard of snooker tbh

Even at 7-5 ahead - it was always a big ask for Shon what with Stephen backing him at the MSI

if it aint a ton none of them can play a proper frame

Market had way too much with in Shaun there !

Better from Higgins, but still enough poor shots to give Selby, who hasn't played well, plenty of hope at 3-5. Given that he isn't winning anything, getting over the line could still be an issue for Higgins. Selby 8/15-11/8.

are 5 showing john boy or xintong match

John within 1, 8-7. 1.26 here 1.36 bet356

8-8.

topsy turvy match

9-8 John Boy.

Pot

10-8 John Boy. Market fell in love with Selby whilst John was the kitten that purred !

1.04    £200.00        £256.15
1.05    £400.00        £674.28
1.06    £600.00        £900.68
1.07            £1,548.52
1.08            £58.09
1.09            £735.00
1.1            £1,923.02
1.11            £1,463.15
1.12            £1,135.39
1.13            £1,335.01
1.14            £1,285.56
1.15            £2,371.45
1.16            £3,575.82
1.17            £1,861.00
1.18            £1,889.55
1.19    £400.00        £7,441.49
1.2            £2,836.40
1.21            £716.31
1.22    £200.00        £1,497.77
1.23            £1,361.06
1.24    £200.00        £1,740.82
1.25            £1,027.55

Higgins looked down and out, but in the end he proved stronger than Selby. That said very frustrating to watch though with all the faffing around, getting down and then up off virtually every shot. The complete opposite of fluent. You would think it will be a completely different kettle of fish against Xintong who doesn't appear to feel the pressure that seemingly affects everyone else. Much prefer these longer format games.

anyone confirm if the crucible seedings has or will will change at all now , thx

shot

The seeding positions for the 2026 World Snooker Championship are now fully confirmed.
Snooker's blue riband event at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield takes place between April 18 to May 4, with the winner set to pocket the top prize of £500,000.

A total of 32 players will line up in front of the television cameras for the main draw at the Crucible, with first round matches seeing the top 16 seeds facing the 16 successful players who emerge from the qualifying rounds at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield held between April 6-15.

The seed players for the World Snooker Championship are determined by the sport's world rankings, with the top 16 from those global standings after the penultimate event of the season - the 2026 Tour Championship - getting a pass straight through to the Crucible.

Going into the Tour Championship in Manchester, 15 of the 16 seeds were already known, and following Thepchaiya Un-Nooh's first round exit, 16th-placed Ding Junhui held on to his place in the elite bracket and his seed placement became guaranteed.

Whilst all 16 Crucible seeds were known, the order they would be in wasn't, although that was all resolved by the semi-finals stage at the Manchester Central.

The bracket for the World Snooker Championship main draw is fixed, with reigning champion Zhao Xintong the number one seed at the top of the draw, and world number one Judd Trump being the number two seed at the bottom.

Should all the seeds win their opening matches at the Crucible, the second round would see seeds 1 v 16, 2 v 15, 3 v 14 etc.

However, the 16 qualifiers from the EIOS will be randomly drawn against the seeds, with that live draw expected to take place on the morning of Thursday 16th April.

2026 World Snooker Championship draw bracket (before the qualifiers are known):
TOP HALF

Zhao Xintong (1) v Qualifier

Ding Junhui (16) v Qualifier

Xiao Guodong (9) v Qualifier

Shaun Murphy (8) v Qualifier

John Higgins (5) v Qualifier

Ronnie O'Sullivan (12) v Qualifier

Chris Wakelin (13) v Qualifier

Neil Robertson (4) v Qualifier

BOTTOM HALF

Kyren Wilson (3) v Qualifier

Mark Allen (14) v Qualifier

Barry Hawkins (11) v Qualifier

Mark Williams (6) v Qualifier

Mark Selby (7) v Qualifier

Wu Yize (10) v Qualifier

Si Jiahui (15) v Qualifier

Judd Trump (2) v Qualifier

superb, wonders, thanks ,  whaw could be a ronnie v higgins 2 round

the world champs and r ascot ny fav events of the year , plus the world cup this year

so my quarter final predictioon is   xintong  v murphy      higgins v  robbo      wilson v hawkins     trump v    selby,,,         but   dark horses from qualifiers to fear bingham,   jack,,,,   chang ,  brecel,    cant wait

let's see who the qualifiers are

I don't what others think but hallworth talks some absolute pony imo

just said xintong in prime position after making a positional error ffs
left him snookered on the blue he played for, forced him to play for pink & that led to him breaking down

bit of advice for you just think before you open your trap

seems to imitate JV at times as well...not good

4-0 xintong

5-0 and JB wants the ground to swallow him up right now

6-0 & a 170 outshot...unbelieeeeeevable

7-0

christ john

8-0 xintong completely different class

8 zip !

Bet Fred must love Trump - going 10/11 each of two.

nobody in their right mind has the (likely) final a coin flip

Bet Fred now 8/13 and 13/10. Bookmakers will actually be rooting for Trump.

You would imagine Trump will be looking at a quick start, get in the lead, and stay there. I doubt you would want to be chasing someone like Xintong. Might get something from being the underdog, but as I said, pressure so far hasn't phased Xintong.

Apparently Judd just had a lovely rub of the balls
OOh Matron!

should be 6-2

5-3 xintong is a good session for judd

judd been woeful

Sure has

9-3 Zhao

if we get to picture situation here, itll have to be an incredible one

Not often we see Trump spanked like that

Roll on the World.

Whirlwind playing well (so far) this morning 2-0 up

JW 4-1 up

5-1, Jimmy certainly getting the run of the ball today, while Yang cant seem to get the pace of the table.

Yang seems to have woken up. playing better.

5-3 JW resumes 7pm

apologies Jimmy leads 5-4

JW levels 7-7, after going 7-5 down.

heartbreak for Jimmy, and his backers, edged out of it in the decider

Brown rattled the jaw for the comeback, missed an easier one moments before too.

The Syrup is out

If you want to read a book of fiction read The Syrup's life story.
The chapter on his late brother was hilarious