World Snooker Championship New Biss Key 22 July 2020
The 2020 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2020 Betfred World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that is scheduled to take place from 31 July to 16 August at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It will be the 44th consecutive year the World Snooker Championship has been held at the Crucible, and the final ranking event of the 2019–20 snooker season. It was originally scheduled to take place from 18 April to 4 May, but qualifying and the televised rounds were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2] Qualifying will be at the originally planned venue on different dates, from 21 to 28 July.[3]
Englishman Judd Trump is the defending champion, having won his maiden world title at the previous year’s event, defeating Scot John Higgins 18–9 in the final. Qualifying for the tournament was to take place from 8 to 15 April 2020 at the English Institute of Sport, also in Sheffield, but this was also postponed.[2]
The world championship sees 32 professional players compete in one-on-one snooker matches in a single elimination format, each played over several frames. The 32 players for the event are selected through a mix of the world snooker rankings and a pre-tournament qualification round.[4] The first world championship in 1927, held in Camkin’s Hall, Birmingham, England, was won by Joe Davis.[5][6] Since 1977, the event has been held in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.[7] The event’s most successful player in the modern era is Stephen Hendry, who has won the championship seven times.[8] The previous year’s championship was won by England’s Judd Trump, who won the event defeating Scotland’s John Higgins in the final 18–9. The champion of the 2020 event will win prize money of £500,000, from a total pool of £2,395,000.[9]
In May 2019, World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn announced the event’s qualifying format would be changed from the previous year, with seeding given to players with a higher ranking, and played over four rounds, rather than three.[10]
World Snooker Championship Qualifiers
EutelSat-7B 7C @7.0°E
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