DRAW: 2021 World Championship Qualifying Draw

The draw was conducted by World Snooker in the afternoon of Wednesday 24th March. The full article and draw are found by clicking here: https://wst.tv/hendry-to-face-white-at-betfred-world-championship/

Rounds 1-3 are BO11 matches and Round 4 is BO19.

Group 1

Round 1: Jimmy White vs. Stephen Hendry → Round 2: Xu Si → Round 3: Zhou Yuelong (1)

vs.

Round 1: Zak Surety vs. Fan Zhengyi → Round 2: Liam Highfield → Round 3: Elliot Slessor (32)

Group 2

Round 1: Ken Doherty vs. Lee Walker → Round 2: Nigel Bond → Round 3: Matt Selt (16)

vs.

Round 1: Oliver Lines vs. Dylan Emery (a) → Round 2: Dominic Dale → Round 3: Scott Donaldson (17)

Group 3

Round 1: Fraser Patrick vs. Leo Fernandez (a) → Round 2: Joe O’Connor → Round 3: Robert Milkins (24)

vs.

Round 1: Barry Pinches vs. Jamie Wilson → Round 2: Jak Jones → Round 3: Kurt Maflin (9)

Group 4

Round 1: Gao Yang vs. Paul Davison (a) → Round 2: Lyu Haotian → Round 3: Noppon Saengkham (25)

vs.

Round 1: Soheil Vahedi vs. Julien Leclercq (a) → Round 2: Chang Bingyu → Round 3: Tom Ford (8)

Group 5

Round 1: Andy Hicks vs. Reanne Evans (a) → Round 2: Eden Sharav → Round 3: Graeme Dott (5)

vs.

Round 1: Billy Castle vs. Connor Benzey (a) → Round 2: Tian Pengfei → Round 3: Sunny Akani (28)

Group 6

Round 1: David Lilley vs. Amine Amiri → Round 2: Jamie Jones → Round 3: Michael Holt (12)

vs.

Round 1: Brandon Sargeant vs. Rebecca Kenna (a) → Round 2: Andrew Higginson → Round 3: Li Hang (21)

Group 7

Round 1: Zhao Jianbo vs. Ross Muir (a) → Round 2: Jimmy Robertson → Round 3: Lu Ning (20)

vs.

Round 1: Rod Lawler vs. Alex Borg → Round 2: Yuan Sijun → Round 3: Liang Wenbo (13)

Group 8

Round 1: Fergal O’Brien vs. Fergal Quinn (a) → Round 2: Stuart Carrington → Round 3: Mark Davis (29)

vs.

Round 1: Jamie Clarke vs. Iulian Boiko → Round 2: Jamie O’Neill → Round 3: Joe Perry (4)

Group 9

Round 1: Igor Figueiredo vs. Farakh Ajaib → Round 2: Robbie Williams → Round 3: Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (3)

vs.

Round 1: Rory McLeod vs. Brain Ochoiski (a) → Round 2: Anthony Hamilton → Round 3: Mark Joyce (30)

Group 10

Round 1: Ashley Carty vs. Michael White (a) → Round 2: Louis Heathcote → Round 3: Ryan Day (14)

vs.

Round 1: Peter Lines vs. Mark Lloyd (a) → Round 2: Luo Honghao → Round 3: Ricky Walden (19)

Group 11

Round 1: Allan Taylor vs. Bai Langning → Round 2: Alan McManus → Round 3: Ben Woollaston (22)

vs.

Round 1: Duane Jones vs. Hayden Staniland (a) → Round 2: Daniel Wells → Round 3: Martin Gould (11)

Group 12

Round 1: Steven Hallworth vs. Dean Young (a) → Round 2: David Grace → Round 3: Jordan Brown (27)

vs.

Round 1: James Cahill vs. Sean Maddocks → Round 2: Gerard Greene → Round 3: Gary Wilson (6)

Group 13

Round 1: Si Jiahui vs. Hamim Hussain (a) → Round 2: Pang Junxu → Round 3: Ali Carter (7)

vs.

Round 1: Peter Devlin vs. Lukas Kleckers → Round 2: Alexander Ursenbacher → Round 3: Martin O’Donnell (26)

Group 14

Round 1: Kacper Filipiak vs. Riley Parsons → Round 2: Jackson Page → Round 3: Zhao Xintong (10)

vs.

Round 1: Aaron Hill vs. Ashley Hugill → Round 2: Sam Craigie → Round 3: Hossein Vafaei (23)

Group 15

Round 1: Lei Peifan vs. Ben Mertens (a) → Round 2: Chris Wakelin → Round 3: Matthew Stevens (18)

vs.

Round 1: Simon Lichtenberg vs. Ivan Kakovskii (a) → Round 2: Ian Burns → Round 3: Xiao Guodong (15)

Group 16

Round 1: Ben Hancorn vs. Florian Nuessle (a) → Round 2: Mark King → Round 3: Luca Brecel (31)

vs.

Round 1: Mitchell Mann vs. Robbie McGuigan (a) → Round 2: Chen Zifan → Round 3: Stuart Bingham (2)

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The 2021 World Championship Qualifiers will take place between 5th – 14th April at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, England.