World Seniors Snooker (WSS) is delighted to announce that JenningsBet will be the title sponsor for the 2025 World Seniors Snooker Championship.
Starting out in 1995 as ‘Jennings Racing’, they have grown from 10 Essex-based shops to become the UK’s largest independent bookmaker with over 200 shops nationwide.
The JenningsBet World Seniors Snooker Championship will be held 7-11 May at the iconic Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
Defending Champion Igor Figueiredo from Brazil will join four-time champion Jimmy White, 1997 World champion Ken Doherty and ‘The Tornado’ Tony Drago as well as former ranking event winners Dominic Dale and Joe Perry who make their debut in the tournament.
WSS Chairman Jason Francis said “Greg and his team at JenningsBet supported the launch of my World Seniors Darts Tour and, without them, those events which featured the return of Phil Taylor in 2022 may never have happened. It is great to team up again and showcase their brand from the home of snooker.”
Derek Somers, Sponsorship Manager at JenningsBet, said: “We at JenningsBet are proud to be sponsoring this prestigious event at an iconic sporting venue. Age is no barrier to sporting prowess and this tournament will crown a worthy champion.”
Line-Up Confirmed for 2025 JenningsBet World Seniors Snooker Championship
Brazil’s Figueiredo made history for South American snooker 12 months ago by winning the flagship title and he will begin the defence of his crown as the top seed on the opening Wednesday afternoon session.
Jimmy ‘The Whirlwind’ White will be aiming to win a record-extending fifth World Seniors Snooker Championship title at the sport’s most iconic venue and he gets underway on the afternoon of Thursday 8 May – as does the 1997 World champion Ken Doherty.
Former ranking event champions Joe Perry and Dominic Dale will make their World Seniors Snooker debuts at the event and they are joined as seeds by Malta’s Tony ‘The Tornado’ Drago, former world number two Tony Knowles and World Seniors Snooker’s world number one Aaron Canavan – who notably won the 2018 Championship.
Canavan is one of four players to have qualified via the ‘Race to the Crucible Series’ which saw players compete across nine events to earn their spots via the rankin
gs. The man from Jersey is joined by Andrew Norman, Gerard Greene and Crucible debutant Wayne Townsend in qualifying via this route.
Additionally, Craig Steadman, Hassan Kerde, Charl Jonck and Fabio Anderson Luersen will add to the international field having earned their right via the continental Seniors Championships in the Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Americas regions respectively.
One place remains up for grabs and this will go to the winner of the ‘Golden Ticket’ Play-Off which sees 16 players competing for the spot at The Crucible Club in Reading on 19-20 April.
Among the line-up is Alfie Burden, who reached the final of the 2023 World Seniors Snooker Championship and missed out on automatic qualification this year by just a single frame, and Rory McLeod – who famously defeated Judd Trump at the Crucible in 2017…
The draw for the last chance ‘Golden Ticket’ Play-Off for the JenningsBet World Seniors Snooker Championship is now confirmed following the conclusion of the ‘Race to the Crucible Series’ last weekend.
Sixteen players will compete at The Crucible Club in Reading on 19-20 April with the winner earning the last remaining place at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre in May.
Alfie Burden vs. Andy Lavin
Anthony Harris vs. Dean Galbally
Stuart Watson vs. Rory McLeod
Nigel Howe vs. Lee Stephens
Dharminder Lilly vs. Billy Ginn
Matt Ford vs. Gary Filtness
Neil Craycraft vs. Marc Shaw
Philip Williams vs. Tam Mustafa
The line-up is made up top eight ranked players who did not qualify automatically for the flagship event in each of the official two-year world ranking list and the one-year ‘Race to the Crucible Series’ ranking list.
The WPBSA World Seniors Tour 