The World Snooker Championship is with out some very massive names this yr.
The World Snooker Championship will get underway later this week (Picture: Getty)
The complete 32-man line-up for the World Snooker Championship has been confirmed, with 11 massive names set to overlook the largest event in snooker. A subject of 128 gamers began the qualification course of in Sheffield, with simply 16 progressing to the primary draw.
Maybe the largest identify to overlook out on a spot on the World Championship is the 2023 champion, Luca Brecel. The Belgian Bullet had progressed to the ultimate spherical of qualification however suffered a crushing defeat in opposition to the 2024 runner-up, Jak Jones.
Brecel and Jones had been evenly matched by the primary eight frames of the match, however Jones put his foot on the accelerator thereafter and took six of the ultimate seven. It’s one other bitter blow for Brecel, who has plummeted down the rankings and can miss the World Championship for the primary time since 2021.
He isn’t the one former winner sitting the event out, with Stuart Bingham, who took the title in 2015, additionally lacking. Having overwhelmed Wang Xinbo in his opener, Bingham was unable to get the higher of Matthew Stevens within the remaining spherical.
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