2022 Tour Championship snooker draw: Ronnie O'Sullivan set to face Mark Williams, Judd Trump v Luca Brecel, prize money

Ronnie O'Sullivan is set to face old foe Mark Williams in the quarter-finals of the elite eight-man £380,000 Tour Championship at Venue Cymru in Llandudno (28 March-3 April) . The evergreen duo – with nine world titles and a staggering 62 ranking trophies between them – are provisionally in line to lock cues on Wednesday 30 March in the Welsh coastal town, a remarkable 30 years after they turned professional with O'Sullivan seeded third on the one-year list and Williams occupying sixth spot before the Gibraltar Open (24-26 March LIVE on Eurosport).

Ad/> The 'Class of '92' rivals first played each other in the early rounds of the 1994 Welsh Open. O'Sullivan ran out a 5-1 winner and is 32-8 ahead in their career meetings, but Williams did enjoy a famous 9-5 victory in the 2000 Grand Prix final.

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He's probably the only snooker player I'd pay to watch.» The provisional quarter-final draw for the fourth Tour Championship – involving the top eight on the sport's one-year list in the chase for the £150,000 first prize – is also likely to see defending champion Neil Robertson confront Mark Allen, who lost 10-6 to Stephen Maguire in the 2020 final. As it stands, Turkish Masters winner Judd Trump will encounter Scottish Open champion Luca Brecel in the top half of the draw with top seed Zhao Xintong meetingJohn Higgins in the tournament opener on Monday 28 March.