Tour Championship snooker 2022 LIVE - Top seed Zhao Xintong faces John Higgins in opening clash

Match schedule Quarter-finals Ad/> Monday, March 28 Tour ChampionshipTour Championship 2022 — Latest scores, results, schedule, order of play3 HOURS AGO Zhao Xintong [1] v John Higgins [8] Tuesday, March 29 Neil Robertson [2] v Mark Allen [7] Wednesday, March 30 Ronnie O'Sullivan [3] v Mark Williams [6] Thursday, March 31 Judd Trump [4] v Luca Brecel [5] Why unique pressures of snooker's longer formats make it ultimate challenge Let’s go back 30 years to May 4th, 1992. It’s a sunny bank holiday Monday afternoon in Sheffield and Jimmy White is leading Stephen Hendry 12-6 in the World Championship final. White is outplaying Hendry.

He looks around a packed Crucible theatre and starts to think of who he should thank – and who he should leave out – in his victory speech later that night. Darkness falls in more ways than one. Six hours later, Hendry has won 18-14.

White has lost the last 10 frames. To this day, he has never held snooker’s most prized trophy aloft. The Whirlwind would surely have been world champion had the final been played over one day, as some current players now advocate.

We’re told constantly people don’t want to watch a best of 35, that their attention spans can’t take it, that they have other things to do. Read full column from Dave Hendon here. — - Stream the 2022 World Championship and much more top snooker action live and on demand on discovery+ World ChampionshipWorld Championship 2022: How to watch as Selby looks to defend titleAN HOUR AGO World ChampionshipWhy unique pressures of snooker's longer formats make it ultimate challenge2 HOURS AGO