First-round matches at the World Championship are best-of-19 frames, which is the longest you’ll get for any match in other tournaments, then for the final it’s up to best-of-35, over two days.

Snooker fans in the US will need a subscription to WST Play in order to watch Snooker World Championship 2025. It costs £7 per month or £70 per year, which is roughly US$8.50 and US$85.

Wales' Mark Williams and China's Zhao Xintong pose with the trophy prior to the Final on day sixteen of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England, Sunday, May 4, 2025.

China's Zhao Xintong during his Final match with Wales' Mark Williams on day seventeen of the Halo World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England, Monday, May 5, 2025.

Female karate athlete Sara Bahmanyar and male snooker player Ali Qaragozlou have been named as Iran’s flag bearers in the opening ceremony of the upcoming World Games in China’s Chengdu.

Down and out for the count against Pakistan’s Ahsan Ramzan, second-seeded Aditya Mehta staged a Houdini act to keep his title ...

How to watch the World Snooker Championship with a VPN Sign up for a VPN if you don't already have one. Install it on the device you're using to watch the show. Turn it on and set it to a UK location.

Snooker fans in the UK can watch live coverage of key games from the 2025 World Championship on free-to-air broadcaster the BBC, with coverage spanning BBC One, BBC Four and the BBC Red Button ...

National Chinese hero Ding Junhui became the first Asian snooker player to be ranked No.1 in the world and lost the 2016 world final to Mark Selby, but Zhao has now finally ended the country’s ...