World Snooker Championship 2022 Live Match Streaming

May 21, 2022

The 2022 World Snooker Championship is an ongoing professional snooker tournament. Taking place from 17 April to 3 May 2022 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It is the 45th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship has been held at the Crucible Theatre. And it is the 15th and final ranking event of the 2022–21 snooker seasons. The tournament is organized by the World Snooker Tour. A subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The event is sponsored by sports betting company Betfred. And broadcast by the BBC, Eurosport and Matchroom Sport.

Qualifying for the tournament took place between 5 and 14 April 2022 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. There were 128 participants in the qualifying rounds. With a mix of professional and invited amateur players. 16 of whom reached the main stage of the tournament. Where they will play the top 16 players from the snooker world rankings. Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending champion, having won his sixth world title at the previous year’s event. Defeating Kyren Wilson 18–8 in the final. However, O’Sullivan lost in the second round to Anthony McGill 12–13.

Snooker Background

The World Snooker Championship features 32 professional players competing in one-on-one snooker matches in a single-elimination format. Each match played over a number of frames. The 32 players for the event are selected through a mix of the snooker world rankings. And a pre-tournament qualification round. Since 1977, the event has been held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

The 2022 championship was won by England’s Ronnie O’Sullivan. Who defeated compatriot Kyren Wilson in the final 18–8 to win his sixth world title. The winner of the 2022 championship will receive £500,000, from a total prize fund of £2,395,000. The event is organised by World Snooker in partnership with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).

Snooker Match Format

The main draw of the tournament is played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The 2022 World Snooker Championship takes place between 17 April and 3 May 2022. At the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The event features a 32-player main draw that is contested at the Crucible Theatre. As well as a 128-player qualifying draw held at the English Institute of Sport.

Qualifying for the event was played between 5 and 14 April 2022. The top 16 players in the latest 2022–21 snooker world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players. Matches in the first round of the main draw are played as the best of 19 frames. Second-round matches and quarter-finals played as the best of 25 frames. And the semi-finals are played over a maximum of 33 frames. The final is played over two days as a best-of-35-frames match.

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Watch World Snooker Championship 2022 | Tournament Schedule & Results

Second round (best of 25 frames)

Monday, 26 April

13:00

Stuart Bingham v Jamie Jones

David Gilbert v Judd Trump

19:00

Mark Allen v Mark Selby

Shaun Murphy v Yan Bingtao