World Snooker Championship qualifiers - Latest results, scores, schedule and order of play ahead of Crucible

Qualification for the 2022 World Championship began on April 3 and runs through to April 14. There have already been some substantial shocks with Kurt Maflin, Ricky Walden, Mark King and Martin Gould already knocked out. Mark Selby is the defending world champion after he beat Shaun Murphy 18-15 in last year’s showpiece event..

Neil Robertson is the form player winning four titles and losing just eight of his 43 matches thus far. Elsewhere, Ronnie O’Sullivan is chasing a seventh world crown while Judd Trump can never be counted out. Ad/> HOW CAN I WATCH THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR? World Championship'Wow, amazing!' — O'Sullivan on 'incredible' Gazza, 'legend' Senna and snooker great5 HOURS AGO You can stream the World Championship and the qualifiers on discovery+ in the UK and across Europe.

You can also watch the World Championship on Eurosport. Reports and reaction from the best of the action will be available on the Eurosport website and the app, available on Android and Apple. Why unique pressures of snooker's longer formats make it ultimate challenge The joy that O'Sullivan still provides is needed now more than ever QUALIFYING FORMAT Some 128 players were vying to qualify at the English Institute of Sport the week before the tournament is due to start.

That group will be whittled down to just 16 across a week, where the victors will join the 16 top players in the snooker rankings in the draw for the first round. Qualifying matches are of a best-of-11 frames in the first, second and third preliminary rounds, before best-of-19 matches on 'Judgement Day' in the fourth and final qualifying round. Players join at different stages through the first three of the four rounds, as follows...