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2025 English Open (snooker)
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The 2025 English Open (officially the 2025 BetVictor English Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 11 to 21 September 2025 at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England. The 10th consecutive edition of the tournament since it was first staged in 2016, it will be the fourth ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Wuhan Open and preceding the 2025 British Open. It will be the first of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, preceding the 2025 Northern Ireland Open, the 2025 Scottish Open, and the 2026 Welsh Open.
Neil Robertson is the defending champion, having defeated Wu Yize 9–7 in the 2024 final.
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Overview
The 10th consecutive edition of the English Open since it was first staged in 2016, the tournament will take place from 11 to 21 September 2025 at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England.[1][2] It will be the fourth ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Wuhan Open and preceding the 2025 British Open.[3] Neil Robertson is the defending champion, having defeated Wu Yize 9–7 in the 2024 final.[4]
Format
The tournament will use a tiered format first implemented for the Home Nations Series in the 2024–25 snooker season. In round one, players seeded 65–96 face those seeded 97–128. In round two, the 32 winners from round one will face players seeded 33–64. In round three, the 32 winners from round two will face the top 32 seeds.[5] All matches will be played as best of seven frames until the quarter‑finals, which will be the best of nine. The semi‑finals will be the best of 11, and the final will be a best‑of‑17-frame match played over two sessions.
Prize fund
- Winner: £100,000
- Runner-up: £45,000
- Semi-final: £21,000
- Quarter-final: £13,200
- Last 16: £9,000
- Last 32: £5,400
- Last 64: £3,600
- Last 96: £1,000
- Highest break: £5,000
- Total: £550,400
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Final rounds
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The draw for the final rounds is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the players' seeding and players in bold denote match winners.
Top half
| Last 64 Best of 7 frames | Last 32 Best of 7 frames | Last 16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | ||||||||||||||
 Neil Robertson (AUS) (1)
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 Jackson Page (WAL) (32)
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 Shaun Murphy (ENG) (15)
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| David Gilbert (ENG) (22)
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 Wu Yize (CHN) (18)
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| Chris Wakelin (ENG) (11)
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| Lei Peifan (CHN) (29)
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| Mark Selby (ENG) (8)
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| Mark Williams (WAL) (5)
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| Zhou Yuelong (CHN) (30)
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| Barry Hawkins (ENG) (10)
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| Tom Ford (ENG) (17)
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 Hossein Vafaei (IRN) (23)
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| Si Jiahui (CHN) (13)
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| Pang Junxu (CHN) (27)
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| Kyren Wilson (ENG) (4)
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- Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walkover
Bottom half
| Last 64 Best of 7 frames | Last 32 Best of 7 frames | Last 16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | ||||||||||||||
| Judd Trump (ENG) (3)
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| Yuan Sijun (CHN) (28)
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| Gary Wilson (ENG) (14)
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| Elliot Slessor (ENG) (21)
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| Stuart Bingham (ENG) (19)
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 Mark Allen (NIR) (9)
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| Matthew Selt (ENG) (31)
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| Ding Junhui (CHN) (6)
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| Xiao Guodong (CHN) (7)
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| Joe O'Connor (ENG) (25)
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| Zhang Anda (CHN) (11)
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| Jak Jones (WAL) (20)
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 Stephen Maguire (SCO) (24)
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| Ali Carter (ENG) (16)
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| Jack Lisowski (ENG) (26)
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| Zhao Xintong (CHN) (2)
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- Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walkover
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Early rounds
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The results of the early rounds are shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the players' seeding, an "a" indicates amateur players who were not on the main World Snooker Tour, and players in bold denote match winners.
| Round 1 (Last 128) Best of 7 frames | Round 2 (Last 96) Best of 7 frames | |||||
 Sunny Akani (THA) (70) | David Lilley (ENG) (58) | |||||
| Oliver Brown (ENG) (102) | ||||||
| Zhao Hanyang (CHN) (95) | Noppon Saengkham (THA) (33) | |||||
| Connor Benzey (ENG) (112) | ||||||
 Haris Tahir (PAK) (79) | Zak Surety (ENG) (60) | |||||
 Michał Szubarczyk (POL) (100) | ||||||
 Julien Leclercq (BEL) (76) | Fan Zhengyi (CHN) (48) | |||||
| Aidan Murphy (ENG) (a) | ||||||
| Farakh Ajaib (PAK) (75) | He Guoqiang (CHN) (45) | |||||
 Kreishh Gurbaxani (IND) (104) | ||||||
| Chris Totten (SCO) (85) | Robert Milkins (ENG) (51) | |||||
| Ross Muir (SCO) (105) | ||||||
| Antoni Kowalski (POL) (67) | Ryan Day (WAL) (34) | |||||
| Liam Graham (SCO) (106) | ||||||
| Liam Highfield (ENG) (94) | Oliver Lines (ENG) (63) | |||||
 Ng On-yee (HKG) (108) | ||||||
| Amir Sarkhosh (IRN) (72) | Long Zehuang (CHN) (53) | |||||
 Sahil Nayyar (CAN) (114) | ||||||
| David Grace (ENG) (91) | Xu Si (CHN) (38) | |||||
 Jonas Luz (BRA) (98) | ||||||
| Louis Heathcote (ENG) (86) | Jordan Brown (NIR) (50) | |||||
 Mahmoud El Hareedy (EGY) (122) | ||||||
| Duane Jones (WAL) (66) | Martin O'Donnell (ENG) (41) | |||||
| Patrick Whelan (ENG) (a) | ||||||
| Cheung Ka Wai (HKG) (80) | Luca Brecel (BEL) (39) | |||||
| Jimmy White (ENG) (109) | ||||||
| Sam Craigie (ENG) (88) | Liu Hongyu (CHN) (54) | |||||
| Chatchapong Nasa (THA) (101) | ||||||
| Reanne Evans (ENG) (89) | Daniel Wells (WAL) (44) | |||||
| Jiang Jun (CHN) (118) | ||||||
| Huang Jiahao (CHN) (82) | Robbie Williams (ENG) (49) | |||||
| Oliver Sykes (ENG) (a) | ||||||
| Round 1 (Last 128) Best of 7 frames | Round 2 (Last 96) Best of 7 frames | |||||
| Robbie McGuigan (NIR) (81) | Michael Holt (ENG) (62) | |||||
| Mink Nutcharut (THA) (103) | ||||||
 Bulcsú Révész (HUN) (78) | Ben Woollaston (ENG) (36) | |||||
 Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI) (110) | ||||||
| Mitchell Mann (ENG) (87) | Sanderson Lam (ENG) (59) | |||||
| Ian Burns (ENG) (117) | ||||||
| Wang Yuchen (HKG) (68) | Jimmy Robertson (ENG) (35) | |||||
 Florian Nüßle (AUT) (119) | ||||||
| Dylan Emery (WAL) (90) | Matthew Stevens (WAL) (47) | |||||
| Fergal Quinn (NIR) (111) | ||||||
| Allan Taylor (ENG) (69) | Scott Donaldson (SCO) (52) | |||||
 Umut Dikme (GER) (a) | ||||||
| Liam Davies (WAL) (74) | Lyu Haotian (CHN) (37) | |||||
| Hatem Yassen (EGY) (99) | ||||||
| Lan Yuhao (CHN) (92) | Stan Moody (ENG) (55) | |||||
| Liam Pullen (ENG) (107) | ||||||
| Chang Bingyu (CHN) (73) | Gong Chenzhi (CHN) (64) | |||||
 Leone Crowley (IRL) (113) | ||||||
| Bai Yulu (CHN) (93) | Ricky Walden (ENG) (40) | |||||
| Liu Wenwei (CHN) (116) | ||||||
| Steven Hallworth (ENG) (83) | Anthony McGill (SCO) (56) | |||||
| Mateusz Baranowski (POL) (120) | ||||||
 Iulian Boiko (UKR) (84) | Jamie Jones (WAL) (46) | |||||
| Xu Yichen (CHN) (121) | ||||||
 Artemijs Žižins (LAT) (71) | Aaron Hill (IRL) (43) | |||||
| Yao Pengcheng (CHN) (115) | ||||||
| Marco Fu (HKG) (96) | Mark Davis (ENG) (57) | |||||
| Gao Yang (CHN) (97) | ||||||
| Haydon Pinhey (ENG) (77) | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA) (42) | |||||
| Ryan Davies (ENG) (a) | ||||||
| Ben Mertens (BEL) (65) | Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND) (61) | |||||
| Ashley Hugill (ENG) (a) | ||||||
- Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walkover
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