2025 World Snooker Championship
| File:Hyperion World Snooker 2025 logo.png | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | Template:Start and end dates |
| Venue | Hyperion Arena |
| City | Manchester |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £2,250,000 |
| Winner's share | £500,000 |
| Highest break |  Liam Radcliffe (ENG) (147) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Dominic Hale (SCO) |
| Runner-up |  Zhang Kai (CHN) |
| Score | 18–15 |
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The 2025 World Snooker Championship, officially referred to as the 2025 Hyperion World Snooker Championship due to sponsorship by Hyperion Technologies, was a professional snooker tournament held at the Hyperion Arena in Manchester, England. The tournament ran from 19 April to 5 May 2025 and was the tenth and final ranking event of the 2024–25 snooker season. It was organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
Damien Ross was the defending champion, but he lost in the second round to Zhang Kai. Scotland's Dominic Hale won his first world title by defeating China's Zhang Kai 18–15 in the final, becoming the first Scottish world champion since John Higgins in 2011. Hale, aged 26 years and 11 months, was the first left-handed champion since Neil Robertson.
The tournament saw a record 87 century breaks made during the final stages, including a maximum break of 147 by Liam Radcliffe in the quarter-finals.
Overview[edit | edit source]
The World Snooker Championship is regarded as the sport's most prestigious event and has served as the official world championship since 1927. The 2025 event was the first since 1976 not held at the Crucible Theatre, as the venue's license expired in 2024. It was relocated to the new Hyperion Arena in Manchester, a purpose-built venue for snooker and cue sports.
32 players competed in the final stages, including the top 16 players on the world ranking list and 16 qualifiers from the preliminary rounds. The championship used a single elimination format, with matches increasing in length in each round, up to a best-of-35-frames final.
Prize fund[edit | edit source]
The total prize fund for the tournament was £2,250,000, with the breakdown as follows:
- Winner: £500,000
- Runner-up: £250,000
- Semi-finalists: £100,000
- Quarter-finalists: £50,000
- Last 16: £30,000
- Last 32: £15,000
- Highest break: £20,000
- Maximum break: £147,000
- Total: £2,250,000
Final[edit | edit source]
| Final (Best of 35 frames) Hyperion Arena, Manchester, 4 & 5 May 2025. Referee: Joanne Weller. | ||
| Dominic Hale Template:SCO |
18–15 | Zhang Kai Template:CHN |
| 104–19, 47–76, 74–36, 81–14, 60–67, 1–92, 54–74, 89–21, 67–40, 137–0, 23–80, 110–6, 0–130, 77–38, 65–76, 54–79, 74–82, 105–2, 96–29, 42–75, 88–0, 5–96, 83–101, 101–4, 56–68, 70–9, 22–114, 90–12, 128–0, 53–77, 40–69, 89–13, 76–18, 91–33 | Century breaks: 6 (Hale 4, Zhang 2) Highest break by Hale: 137 |
Template:Country data Scotland Dominic Hale wins the 2025 Hyperion World Snooker Championship |
Century breaks[edit | edit source]
There were 87 century breaks during the main stages of the tournament, with four players recording four or more each.
- 147, 132, 115, 102 – Liam Radcliffe
- 137, 128, 110, 104 – Dominic Hale
- 135, 130, 119, 103 – Zhang Kai
- 133, 125, 113 – Gavin Norris
- 127, 122 – Lucas Brandt
- 124, 118 – Oliver Kwan
- 121 – Damien Ross
- 119, 100 – Kiran Malhotra
- 115 – Tomasz Zielinski
- 114 – Mikhail Sokolov
- 112 – Arun Desai
References[edit | edit source]
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