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The 2025 British Open is a World Snooker Tour (WST) ranking event, featured as the fifth ranking tournament of the 2025–26 snooker season, positioned chronologically after the 2025 BetVictor English Open and before the 2025 Xi’an Grand Prix. It’s organized by the WST, which is the main professional snooker tour, under the oversight of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) – the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards.

Where Will the 2025 British Open Be Held?

Qualifiers were held at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester, England, UK, while the venue for the main event will be The Centaur – a multiple-use complex with seating auditoria situated at Cheltenham Racecourse at Prestbury Park in Cheltenham, England, UK.      

A 128-player field will share the total prize fund of £502,000 in the following ways:

• Winner’s share: £100,000
• Runner-up: £45,000
• Semi-finalists: £20,000 each
• Quarter-finalists: £12,000 each
• Last-16 losers: £9,000 each
• Last-32 losers: £6,000 each
• Last-64 losers: £3,000 each
• Highest break: £5,000

Which Players Will Take Part in the 2025 British Open?

All of the world’s top-16 players entered except Ding Junhui. Notable participants include:

• Defending champion Mark Selby
• John Higgins (going for a fifth title)
• Mark Williams
• Jimmy White
• Other elite players: Judd Trump, Shaun Murphy, Zhao Xintong, Kyren Wilson, Neil Robertson, and Mark Allen.

The player line-up is comprised of 123 professional tour card holders and 5 amateur “top-up” players from the 2025 Q School list – a series of tournaments that offer professional tour cards to amateur players.

Features of the 2025 British Open

Not counting the qualifiers in Leicester, the main event in Cheltenham will have only one stage, the single elimination (knockout format): it starts with held-over round-one matches and proceeds through to the final.

Format of the matches:

• Rounds 1 to Last 16: Best-of-7 frames (first to 4)
• Quarter-finals: Best-of-9 (first to 5)
• Semi-finals: Best-of-11 (first to 6)
• Final: Best-of-19 (first to 10)

Who’ll Win the 2025 British Open?

Mark Selby, the defending champion, is the biggest favorite to win the 2025 British Open and raise the Clive Everton Trophy. The odds say that John Higgins has huge potential to claim the record fifth title. Judd Trump, Zhao Xintong, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, and Neil Robertson are strong contenders.

While we can’t recommend specific betting services, the venue’s website (Cheltenham Racecourse) suggests betting options via Tote and other bookies during the event. In general, betting is available through licensed UK sportsbooks compliant with UK regulations, of course, if they are on the list of betting sites for snooker.

Between 2004 and 2021, the tournament was absent from the calendar. The British Open maintains a unique FA Cup-style random draw each round, promoting unpredictability and excitement. The British Open, while a ranking event, generally doesn’t attract the same attention as the Triple Crown tournaments (World Championship, UK Championship, and Masters). ITV coverage for recent editions has occasionally drawn peak audiences exceeding 600,000—modest by comparison, yet respectable in context.

The 2025 edition is expected to be broadcast on ITV and ITVX in the UK, as per a broadcasting deal covering 2025 events. Coverage in other regions is likely through the usual snooker broadcast partners.

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