FULL LIST OF PLAYERS FOR BETFRED WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Below is the full list of players set to compete in the 2022 Betfred World Championship. The qualifying rounds run from April 4 to 13 at the English Institute of Sport – Sheffield, followed by the main event from April 16 to May 2 at the Crucible Theatre.
The professional players listed below are in their current seeding order but note this order will change over the next two counting events, the BetVictor Gibraltar Open and Cazoo Tour Championship. Below the pro players, the WPBSA-invited amateurs and the Q School top-ups are listed.
1 MARK SELBY
2 RONNIE O’SULLIVAN
3 JUDD TRUMP
4 NEIL ROBERTSON
5 KYREN WILSON
6 JOHN HIGGINS
7 ZHAO XINTONG
8 MARK WILLIAMS
9 BARRY HAWKINS
10 SHAUN MURPHY
11 MARK ALLEN
12 ANTHONY MCGILL
13 STUART BINGHAM
14 JACK LISOWSKI
15 LUCA BRECEL
16 STEPHEN MAGUIRE
17 YAN BINGTAO
18 RICKY WALDEN
19 HOSSEIN VAFAEI
20 DAVID GILBERT
21 MARTIN GOULD
22 MATTHEW SELT
23 RYAN DAY
24 ALI CARTER
25 JOE PERRY
26 ZHOU YUELONG
27 JORDAN BROWN
28 TOM FORD
29 JIMMY ROBERTSON
30 DING JUNHUI
31 WENBO LIANG
32 GARY WILSON
33 LU NING
34 GRAEME DOTT
35 FAN ZHENGYI
36 KURT MAFLIN
37 XIAO GUODONG
38 JAMIE JONES
39 NOPPON SAENGKHAM
40 MARK KING
41 SAM CRAIGIE
42 LIAM HIGHFIELD
43 ROBERT MILKINS
44 JAK JONES
45 BEN WOOLLASTON
46 ANTHONY HAMILTON
47 LI HANG
48 ALEXANDER URSENBACHER
49 SCOTT DONALDSON
50 ELLIOT SLESSOR
51 THEPCHAIYA UN-NOOH
52 JOE O’CONNOR
53 MARK DAVIS
54 STUART CARRINGTON
55 DAVID GRACE
56 MARTIN O’DONNELL
57 MARK JOYCE
58 MATTHEW STEVENS
59 ANDREW HIGGINSON
60 SUNNY AKANI
61 PANG JUNXU
62 CHRIS WAKELIN
63 ROBBIE WILLIAMS
64 LYU HAOTIAN
65 DOMINIC DALE
66 JAMIE CLARKE
67 OLIVER LINES
68 TIAN PENGFEI
69 MICHAEL HOLT
70 CAO YUPENG
71 ASHLEY CARTY
72 FERGAL O’BRIEN
73 ANDY HICKS
74 YANG GAO
75 SIMON LICHTENBERG
76 ALLAN TAYLOR
77 STEVEN HALLWORTH
78 NIGEL BOND
79 ASHLEY HUGILL
80 KEN DOHERTY
81 JIANBO ZHAO
82 WU YIZE
83 LUKAS KLECKERS
84 RORY MCLEOD
85 MITCHELL MANN
86 BEN HANCORN
87 YUAN SIJUN
88 AARON HILL
89 HAMMAD MIAH
90 JACKSON PAGE
91 PETER LINES
92 ZHANG ANDA
93 LEE WALKER
94 PETER DEVLIN
95 ZAK SURETY
96 XU SI
97 CRAIG STEADMAN
98 DUANE JONES
99 FARAKH AJAIB
100 CHANG BINGYU
101 JAMIE WILSON
102 ZHANG JIANKANG
103 FRASER PATRICK
104 GERARD GREENE
105 IULIAN BOIKO
106 LOUIS HEATHCOTE
107 JAMIE O’NEILL
108 ANDREW PAGETT
109 BARRY PINCHES
110 IAN BURNS
111 LEI PEIFAN
112 ALFIE BURDEN
113 SEAN MADDOCKS
114 JIMMY WHITE
115 ON YEE NG
116 MICHAEL JUDGE
117 CHEN ZIFAN
118 DEAN YOUNG
119 REANNE EVANS
120 MARCO FU
WPBSA Amateurs
Si Jiahui
Lee Stephens
Daniel Wells
Michael White
Anton Kazakov
Jake Crofts
Liam Davies
Yorrit Hoes
Nutcharut Wongharuthai
Rebecca Kenna
Dylan Emery
Sean O’Sullivan
David Lilley
Robbie McGuigan
Ben Mertens
Michael Collumb
Q School Top-Ups
Sanderson Lam
Michael Georgiou
Soheil Vahedi
Ross Muir
John Astley
Bai Langning
James Cahill
Mark Lloyd
In total there will be 128 players in the field for the qualifying rounds, and only 16 will survive, going through to the Crucible to join the top 16 seeds.
Round one pits players ranked 81 to 112 against those seeded 113 to 144
In round two, those 32 winners will face players ranked 49-80.
In round three, those 32 winners will face players ranked 17-48.
In round four, those 32 winners play each other, with the 16 winners going through to the Crucible.
TICKETS FOR THE QUALIFIERS ARE ON SALE click here to book now. There are special offers currently running, including the chance to be at every day of the qualifying event for only £70, or three tickets for the price of two for the first seven days.
Session times will be 9.30am, 2.30pm and 7.30pm from April 4 to 11 and then 11am and 5pm for the final round on April 12-13.
