Top snooker players in the world will head to Manchester next week for the Tour Championship. Find out what to expect from the weeklong snooker fest in northwest England this week in our Tour Championship 2025 snooker predictions and analysis.
The 2025 Tour Championship will be the penultimate ranking competition of the 2024–25 snooker season. Manchester Central hosts the top 12 ranked players of the year as they battle for championship honors from the 31st of March through the 6th of April. This will be the 17th edition of the £500,000 tournament.
| ℹ️ Tournament: | 2025 Tour Championship, World Snooker Tour 2024-25 (Ranking event) |
| 🎱 Venue: | Manchester Central, Manchester, England |
| 🗓️ Dates: | Monday, March 31 to Sunday, April 6, 2025 |
The Tour Championship is a true showdown of the elite. It pits the world’s top dozen against each other, with seeding determined by their year-long World Snooker Tour ranking points.
The tournament’s top quartet—Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson, John Higgins, and Neil Robertson—receive a bye to the quarter-finals. The rest of the field must participate in the first round.
The top four players from the first round will proceed to the quarter-finals to play against Trump, Wilson, Higgins, and Robertson. The winners will proceed to the semi-finals, and then the finalists will be determined.
Since the tournament began in 2019, five players have claimed the title, including reigning champion Mark Williams and seven-time Crucible king Ronnie O’Sullivan. Meanwhile, Australian star Neil Robertson stands alone as the event’s only double winner, securing back-to-back triumphs in 2021 and 2022.
The best snooker betting sites have released their 2025 Tour Championship snooker odds. Let’s see which players have the shortest odds to win the tournament:
As expected, Judd Trump tops the World Snooker Tour 2024-25 odds for Tour Championship standings. He comes to this tournament fresh off a Players Championship final defeat. But sportsbooks are still rating ‘The Ace in the Pack’ highly for his solid form over the last 12 months.
Bookies that accept Trustly and other payment methods are considering Kyren Wilson as the second favorite to hoist the trophy in Manchester. Wilson recently saw off Trump in an epic Players Championship final, so he’ll be brimming with confidence heading into this tournament.
Neil Robertson should heavily feature in Tour Championship 2025 snooker predictions, given his strong record in the competition. The Aussie remains the only player to have won the Tour Championship twice, and he’ll be aiming to add a third title to his collection.
Mark Selby will be another interesting option to bet on the Tour Championship snooker 2025. The Englishman has never won this tournament, but he has had a solid season. So, the Welsh Open champion could get his hands on his maiden Tour Championship title.
John Higgins might not be the most popular name across 2025 snooker Tour Championship predictions. Snooker bookies, however, are showing great faith in the 2025 World Open champion.
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Wilson experienced a mid-season slump after a solid start to the season. The 2024 World Champion won the Xi’an Grand Prix and Northern Ireland Open earlier in the season but failed to carry on the momentum later on.
He crashed out of the 2024 UK Championship quarter-finals and then fell short in the 2025 Masters final. But Wilson has experienced better luck in recent months. He won the 2025 German Masters, and last weekend, he took the Players Championship title home at Judd Trump’s expense. So, we are expecting another title charge from Wilson.
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Xiao Guodong and Wu Yize will meet in the first round of the competition. The Chinese stars have played each other twice before, and both of them were close encounters. We expect another close battle for the spoils in this one, so we will put our money on over 17.5 frames to be played.
Wilson should be able to carry on his resurgent form in Manchester. Also, Xiao Guodong and Wu Yize should treat fans to another hard-fought battle.
