World Snooker Championship 2023 scores: Latest Crucible results
Defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan will be in contention for an eighth world title during the 2023 World Snooker Championships – unprecedented in modern times.
This year’s edition of snooker’s most prestigious and lucrative event – with a total prize pool of nearly £2.4 million – is being described as one of the most open ever due to an unpredictable season that saw several top stars fail to win a ranking title.
Once described by commentator Clive Everton as a ‘marathon of the spirit’, the final stages of the tournament will initially feature 32 players – 16 seeded and 16 round one qualifiers.
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2023 World Snooker Championship Results
Each first round match (below) is the best of 19 frames, so the first player to win 10 frames wins the match.
In the first round, each player who has made it through the qualifying competition will be drawn against one of the top 16 seeded players, so no seeded players can be drawn against each other.
Seeded players are on the left with their seeding. Players on the right are randomly drawn qualifiers.
| game number | Fit | score |
| 1 | (1) Ronnie O’Sullivan against Pang Junxu | 10-7 |
| 2 | (16) Ding Junhui vs. Hossein Vafaei | 5-4* |
| 3 | (9) Luca Brecel vs. Ricky Walden | 6-3* |
| 4 | (8) Mark Williams vs. Jimmy Robertson | 4-5* |
| 5 | (5) Judd Trump vs. Anthony McGill | |
| 6 | (12) Jack Lisowski vs. Noppon Saengkham | |
| 7 | (13) Robert Milkins vs. Joe Perry | |
| 8th | (4) Shaun Murphy vs. Si Jiahui | |
| 9 | (3) Mark Allen vs. Fan Zhengyi | |
| 10 | (14) Stuart Bingham against David Gilbert | 10-4 |
| 11 | (11) Ali Carter vs. Jak Jones | 4-5* |
| 12 | (6) Neil Robertson against Wu Yize | 10-3 |
| 13 | (7) Kyren Wilson vs. Ryan Day | |
| 14 | (10) John Higgins vs David Grace | |
| 15 | (15) Gary Wilson vs. Elliot Slessor | |
| 16 | (2) Mark Selby vs. Matthew Selt |
*After session 1
What is the highest break in the 2023 World Snooker Championship?
The 2023 World Snooker Championship’s highest break so far is 146, compiled three times – Ryan Day has made one and Neil Robertson has made two.
Day built his during the final round of qualifying at the English Institute of Sport, while Robertson compiled the break twice in the final three frames of his first-round match against Wu Yize. Incredibly, this was only the fifth and sixth time in Crucible history that the rare breakthrough had been made there!
If no one equalizes or gets better in the final stages, Day gets a third of the £15,000 high-break prize, and Robertson gets two-thirds.
Where will the 2023 World Snooker Championships be held?
The Crucible Theater in Sheffield, England is one of the most famous arenas in world sport and the venue for the 2023 World Snooker Championships.
Used as a traditional theater most of the year, the Crucible is best known for and synonymous with professional snooker events.
A champion has been crowned in South Yorkshire every year since it was first held in 1977, including 2020 and 2021 when the event was held either behind closed doors or with limited capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic.
How to watch the 2023 World Snooker Championship
| region | TV channel | stream |
| United Kingdom | BBC One, Two and Four | BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button, BBC Sport website |
| Europe | Eurosport | Discovery+ |
| USA | – | DAZN |
| Brazil | – | DAZN |
| China | CCTV5 (including Macau China), | Superstar Online, Migu, Youku, Huya.com |
| Pakistan | FastsportsHD | FastsportsHD |
| Hong Kong, China | TV now | – |
| Malaysia and Brunei | Astro Super Sport | – |
| Thailand | True Visions | – |
| Philippines | PremierSportsNetwork | – |
| Singapore | Starhub TV | – |
| Taiwan and Indonesia | sports broadcast | – |
| rest of the world | Matchroom.Live |