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2023 Cazoo World Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Dates15 April – 1 May 2023 (2023-04-15 – 2023-05-01)
VenueCrucible Theatre
CitySheffield
CountryEngland
OrganisationWorld Snooker Tour
FormatRanking event
Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
← 2022

The 2023 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2023 Cazoo World Snooker Championship)[1] is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will be held from 15 April to 1 May 2023 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England,[2] the 47th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship will be staged at the venue.[3] Organised by the World Snooker Tour, it will be the final ranking tournament of the 2022–23 snooker season. It will be sponsored for the first time by British car retailer Cazoo, which will be the title sponsor of all three Triple Crown tournaments during the season, in addition to five other events on the professional tour.[4] It will be broadcast in the UK by the BBC, which extended a deal to broadcast the three Triple Crown events until 2027.[5]

Ronnie O'Sullivan will be the defending champion, having won his seventh world title at the 2022 event, where he defeated Judd Trump 18–13 in the final.

Background

The Crucible Theatre from outside
The main draw of the tournament will be played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

The year 2023 will be the 47th consecutive year that the tournament is held at the Crucible, and the 55th successive year that the World Championship is contested through the modern knockout format.[6][7][8] Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan have been the most successful participants at the World Championship in the modern era, both players having won the title seven times each.[9][10] O'Sullivan will be the defending champion, having defeated 2019 champion Judd Trump 18–13 in the 2022 final.[11]

Format

The 2023 World Snooker Championship will take place from 15 April to 1 May 2023,[12] as the last ranking event in the 2022–23 season.[13] It will be preceded by a qualifying tournament held in April 2023. World Snooker Championship qualifying tournaments from 2020 to 2022 had featured three rounds played as the best of 11 frames and a final round played as the best of 19 frames. However, the World Snooker Tour announced that all qualifying rounds from 2023 onwards would revert to the best-of-19 format used prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but with the seeded draws remaining in place.[14]

References

  1. ^ "CAZOO TO BECOME TITLE SPONSOR OF WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP". World Snooker. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  2. ^ "2023 Cazoo World Snooker Championship". World Snooker. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. ^ "World Snooker Championship 2023 - Sheffield - Snooker Trips". Snooker Trips. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Cazoo To Become Title Sponsor Of World Snooker Championship". World Snooker. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. ^ "BBC extends World Snooker broadcast deal to 2027". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  6. ^ "History of the World Snooker Championship". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  7. ^ "Embassy World Championship". snookerscene.co.uk. Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  8. ^ "John Higgins eyes more crucible titles". The Daily Telegraph. London. 5 May 2009. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2020. the modern era, which began in 1969 when the World Championship became a knockout event.
  9. ^ "O'Sullivan Beats Trump For Magnificent Seventh". World Snooker. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  10. ^ "The Final: Frame By Frame". World Snooker. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  11. ^ "O'Sullivan wins record-equalling seventh world title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  12. ^ "2023 Cazoo World Snooker Championship". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Calendar 2022/2023". snooker.org. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Best Of 19 For World Qualifiers From 2023". World Snooker. 12 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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