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Most recently, the 2023 champion Luca Brecel lost in the first round of the 2024 World Snooker Championship. Kyren Wilson, winner of the 2024 event, is yet to attempt to break the Crucible curse. Several world champions successfully defended their first title in the pre-Crucible era; the last to do so was John Pulman in 1964. [6]
The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
Shown below are the results for each round. Numbers in brackets denote player seedings; players in bold denote match winners. [70] [71] [72] The draw for the first round took place at Hallamshire Golf Club on 16 April 2015, one day after the end of the last qualifying round. [73] [74]
This was the 38th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible Theatre. [13] Of the 32 participants, 16 players qualified for the event from the snooker world rankings, and 16 from a four-round qualifying event held at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England.
Player Country Debut Last appearance Total appearances Best John Pulman England 1969: 1980: 11 Runner-up (×1 – 1970) John Spencer England 1969: 1986: 18 Winner (×3 – 1969, 1971, 1977)
The Players Series is a bonus competition for players who have earned the most money in a series of professional snooker tournaments. [1] The series involves three events: the World Grand Prix , Players Championship and Tour Championship .
The event's 32-player lineup is selected using the snooker world rankings and a pre-tournament qualification round. [3] [4] English player Ronnie O'Sullivan won the previous year's championship by defeating fellow countryman Ali Carter in the final 18–11. [5] The winner of the 2013 event earned prize money of £250,000, from a pool of £ ...
The Tour Championship is the third and final tournament in the Players Series, following the World Grand Prix and the Players Championship. The event features a prize fund of £380,000, with the winner receiving £150,000. The tournament is broadcast by ITV Sport in the United Kingdom and Eurosport across the rest of Europe.