Tour Championship snooker 2023 - How to watch, TV schedule, is Ronnie O'Sullivan playing the eight-player event?

22.03.2023 - 21:29 eurosport.com

We are nearly at the end of the season and, as such, it is time for the penultimate ranking event of the year, the 2023 Tour Championship.

Neil Robertson is the defending champion but, he is not participating as a number of big names miss out on the tournament. Ad The eight players for the Tour Championship are picked based on the one-year ranking list and a host of big names have missed the cut due to the up and down nature of the season.

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And where? The 2023 Tour Championship will take place between March 27 and April 2. It will be held at the Bonus Arena in Hull, England.

schedule player watch Neil Robertson Mark Williams Barry Hawkins Jack Lisowski Stuart Bingham Judd Trump John Higgins Luca Brecel

Ronnie O'Sullivan is the 4/1 favourite with bookmakers to land a record eighth world snooker title, but the defending champion does not pay attention to any of the pre-tournament hype swirling around Sheffield at this time of year. O'Sullivan has lifted the elite invitational Hong Kong Masters (6-4 against Marco Fu) and Champion of Champions (10-6 against Judd Trump) this season, but has toiled to make an impact in the ranking events with his best returns coming via quarter-final appearances at the UK Championship and Welsh Open.

World Championship: Who could challenge Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump and become a first-time Crucible winner?

Here is a fact to blow your mind: the last World Championship to feature two debut Crucible finalists was back in 1981. Steve Davis and Doug Mountjoy were each appearing in the world final for the first time. In every world title match in the 42 years since at least one of the finalists has been either a previous winner or runner-up.

World Snooker Championship 2023: Schedule, results, order of play, live scores from the Crucible

The qualifiers for the World Snooker Championship are entering the business end and that can only mean one thing: the World Championship is soon to start. Qualifying concludes on the evening of April 12. And the draw for the first round will happen on April 13 at 08:45 BST.

'Brutal match' – Barry Hawkins keeps World Championship snooker dream alive despite 'terrible standard' win

Barry Hawkins reached the final round of World Championship qualifying with a 10-4 win over David Lilley, but was scathing about his performance at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The world No. 20 has been forced to qualify for the sport's biggest event for the first time since 2012, a year before he reached the final against Ronnie O'Sullivan and performed admirably in an 18-13 defeat.

'Brutal match' – Barry Hawkins keeps World Championship snooker dream alive despite slamming 'terrible standard' win