World Snooker Championship qualifying Judgement Days draw, schedule and how to watch

The Judgement Days are upon us as the final round of World Snooker Championship qualifying has arrived.

Many do not switch on the tournament until the Crucible stage begins on Saturday, but players have been slugging it out for over a week already at the English Institute of Sport to join the world’s top 16 at the famous theatre.

Big names have already fallen before the final round of qualifying, with the likes of Stephen Maguire, Stuart Bingham, Jack Lisowski, Anthony McGill, Robert Milkins and Tom Ford all out of the competition before Judgement Day.

The immense standard throughout the tour has been illustrated by those players losing, but most clearly through the incredible achievement of Jackson Page.

The Welshman, who has never been ranked in the top 32 in the world, became the first player in history to make two 147s in the same match, doing so in his 10-2 victory over Allan Taylor.

The 23-year-old landed a mammoth £147,000 bonus for making two maximums over the Triple Crown and Saudi Arabia Masters this season, a feat which seemed achievable for some, but no one expected it to happen in one match.

16 players will come through their last qualifying game and join the world’s top 16 in the draw for the first round at the Crucible, which is made early on Thursday morning.

How to watch Judgement Days

The Judgement Day action on April 15 and 16 will be shown free on WST Play.

You need to subscribe to WST Play to watch, but that is free of charge and can be done here. How to watch outside the UK is available here.

Judgement Days draw and schedule

Tuesday April 15

All matches are best-of-19 over two sessions at 11am and 5pm

Gary Wilson vs Daniel Wells
Zhou Yuelong vs Yuan Sijun
Ricky Walden vs Zak Surety
Ross Muir vs Ben Woollaston
Elliot Slessor vs Zhao Xintong
Ryan Day vs Sunny Akani
Martin O’Donnell vs Chris Wakelin
David Gilbert vs Aaron Hill

Wednesday April 16

Wang Yuchen vs Hossein Vafaei
Michael Holt vs Fan Zhengyi
Joe O’Connor vs Jackson Page
Jamie Jones vs Pang Junxu
Matthew Stevens vs Wu Yize
Gao Yang vs Lei Peifan
Matt Selt vs Jimmy Robertson
He Guoqiang vs Ali Carter

World Snooker Championship prize money

Winner: £500,000
Runner-up: £200,000
Semi-finalists: £100,000
Quarter-finalists: £50,000
Last 16: £30,000
Last 32: £20,000
Last 48: £15,000 (Judgement Days)
Last 80: £10,000
Last 112: £5,000

World Championship qualifying results

Round One

Hammad Miah 10-0 Jonas Luz
Mateusz Baranowski 10-2 Amir Sarkhosh
Antoni Kowalski 10-4 Reanne Evans
Dylan Emery 10-4 Artemijs Zizins
Haris Tahir 10-6 Joshua Cooper
Huang Jiahao 10-4 Amaan Iqbal
Gong Chenzhi 10-7 Kaylan Patel
Mitchell Mann 10-7 Chris Totten
Zhao Xintong 10-3 Cheung Ka Wai
Liam Davies 10-2 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Farakh Ajaib 10-2 Baipat Siripaporn
Robbie McGuigan 10-6 Hatem Yassen
Sunny Akani 10-3 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Ben Mertens 10-5 Daniel Womersley
Alexander Ursenbacher 10-6 Paul Deaville
Iulian Boiko 10-2 Andrew Pagett
Steven Hallworth 10-2 Bulcsu Revesz
M Phetmalaikul 10-3 Leone Crowley
Liam Graham 10-9 Fergal Quinn
Allan Taylor 10-7 Josh Thomond
Julien Leclercq 10-7 Zhou Jinhao
Dean Young 10-8 Michal Szubarczyk
Oliver Lines 10-8 Mohammed Shehab

Jimmy White 10-9 Anton Kazakov
Ken Doherty vs Haydon Pinhey
Liam Highfield 10-3 Bai Yulu
Wang Yuchen 10-5 Brian Cini
Gao Yang 10-5 Liam Pullen
Ian Burns 10-4 Mink Nutcharut
Andrew Higginson 10-7 Ryan Thomerson
Simon Blackwell 10-7 Mostafa Dorgham
Duane Jones 10-9 Florian Nuessle

Round Two

Aaron Hill 10-0 Haris Tahir
Ishpreet Singh Chadha 10-2 Mateusz Baranowski
Mitchell Mann 10-2 Liu Hongyu
Joe Perry 10-6 Dylan Emery
Hammad Miah 10-9 Rory Thor
Marco Fu 10-4 Ben Mertens
Ross Muir 10-5 Liam Graham
Daniel Wells 10-6 Huang Jiahao
Zhao Xintong 10-8 Long Zehuang
Xing Zihao 10-6 Alex Ursenbacher
Mark Davis 10-7 Robbie McGuigan
Gong Chenzhi 10-8 Stuart Carrington
Jordan Brown 10-6 Farakh Ajaib
Sanderson Lam 10-9 Liam Davies
Sunny Akani 10-9 David Grace

Zak Surety 10-2 Antoni Kowalski
Stan Moody 10-3 Dean Young
Robbie Williams 10-4 M Phetmalaikul
Ashley Carty 10-5 Jimmy White
Allan Taylor 10-8 Jamie Clarke
Jamie Jones 10-7 Julien Leclercq
Iulian Boiko 10-9 Louis Heathcote
Michael Holt 10-8 Oliver Lines
Anthony Hamilton 10-8 Steven Hallworth

Duane Jones 10-1 Ma Hailong
David Lilley 10-2 Ken Doherty
Matthew Stevens 10-3 Simon Blackwell
He Guoqiang 10-3 Liam Highfield
Ian Burns 10-4 Alfie Burden
Jiang Jun 10-5 Andrew Higginson
Gao Yang 10-6 Tian Pengfei

Round three

Gary Wilson 10-1 Hammad Miah
Daniel Wells 10-4 Dominic Dale
Aaron Hill 10-5 Anthony McGill
Zak Surety 10-8 Jack Lisowski
David Gilbert 10-6 Gong Chenzhi
Zhou Yuelong 10-5 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Yuan Sijun 10-5 Joe Perry
Ricky Walden 10-9 Mitchell Mann
Zhao Xintong 10-4 Lyu Haotian
Ryan Day 10-5 Sanderson Lam
Elliot Slessor 10-6 Marco Fu
Chris Wakelin 10-5 Xing Zihao
Sunny Akani 10-7 Noppon Saengkham
Ross Muir 10-7 Tom Ford
Ben Woollaston 10-9 Mark Davis
Martin O’Donnell 10-8 Jordan Brown
Jackson Page 10-2 Allan Taylor
Pang Junxu 10-2 Ashley Carty
Joe O’Connor 10-4 Iulian Boiko
Michael Holt 10-6 Stuart Bingham
Fan Zhengyi 10-6 Robbie Williams
Jamie Jones 10-7 Xu Si
Matt Selt 10-3 Anthony Hamilton
Jimmy Robertson 10-9 Stan Moody
Gao Yang 10-3 Stephen Maguire
Wu Yize 10-4 Jiang Jun
Wang Yuchen 10-5 Robert Milkins
Ali Carter 10-8 Ian Burns
Matthew Stevens 10-8 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Hossein Vafaei 10-7 Duane Jones
Lei Peifan 10-6 David Lilley
He Guoqiang 10-9 Scott Donaldson

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