The World Snooker Championship 2024. The draw for the first stage has taken place

On Thursday, April 18th, the draw for the first stage of the World Snooker Championship took place. The final stage of the championship will run from April 20th to May 6th, 2024, at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Regarding the draw, each pair consists of one player from the current TOP-16 rankings and one of the 16 players who qualified through the qualifying tournament. The seeding of players follows this principle: the current world champion is placed in the first pair, while the player occupying the first position in the current official rankings is placed in the last pair.

The remaining 14 seeded players and all qualifiers are arranged through a blind draw. The Dailysports team has prepared the full draw for the first stage of the World Snooker Championship for you:

• Luca Brecel vs. David Gilbert
• Robert Milkins vs. Pan Xianshuai
• Ali Carter vs. Stephen Maguire
• Shaun Murphy vs. Lu Haotian
• Mark Selby vs. Joe O'Connor
• Kyren Wilson vs. Dominic Dale
• John Higgins vs. Jamie Jones
• Мark Allen vs. Robbie Williams
• Judd Trump vs. Hossein Vafaei
• Tom Ford vs. Ricky Walden
• Zhang Anda vs. Jack Jones
• Mark Williams vs. Si Jiahui
• Ding Junhui vs. Jack Lisowski
• Gary Wilson vs. Stuart Bingham
• Barry Hawkins vs. Ryan Day
• Ronnie O'Sullivan vs. Jackson Page

It's worth mentioning that the current world champion is Luca Brecel.

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