World Snooker Championship 2021

The seeded players and their draw slots - (seed numbers in brackets)

Ronnie O’Sullivan (1) v qualifier

Anthony McGill (16) v qualifier

Ding Junhui (9) v qualifier

Stephen Maguire (8) v qualifier

John Higgins (5) v qualifier

Mark Williams (12) v qualifier

Mark Allen (13) v qualifier

Mark Selby (4) v qualifier

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Neil Robertson (3) v qualifier

Jack Lisowski (14) v qualifier

Barry Hawkins (11) v qualifier

Kyren Wilson (6) v qualifier

Shaun Murphy (7) v qualifier

Yan Bingtao (10) v qualifier

David Gilbert (15) v qualifier

Judd Trump (2) v qualifier

Stephen Hendry has defeated Jimmy White 6-3 to progress to the 2nd round of qualifiers.
Twelve time ladies World Champion Reanne Evans was beaten 6-2 by Andy Hicks.

How many time has Ronnie lost in the first round?

Jimmy'll be back. I noted nobody really pointed out that time Jimmy won 10-4 over him. You'd think he was trying for his first ever win.

Said he thought had over practised for the game prob the thought of beating hendry given there history spurred him in the wrong way

excellent interview with them both

https://twitter.com/Betfred/status/1379330660263981056

Ken Doherty is out of the qualifiers after a 6-4 defeat to Lee Walker.

Such a shame for Doherty he's a great player

The attendance structuring percentages have been revealed for the championship.

In round one The Crucible will operate at 33% capacity.

This increases to 50% capacity for round 2.

Then 75% capacity for the quarter finals and semi finals.

In the final a full capacity Crucible crowd is to be permitted this year.

Stephen Hendry is out after being beaten 6-1 by an impressive Xu Si of China in round 2 of qualifying.

The conqueror of Ken Doherty also perished.
Lee Walker was ousted 6-4 by Nigel Bond.

Spaceman Dominic Dale is through to round 3 after a 6-4 victory over Oliver Lines.

Stephen Hendry knows he'd probably best stick to commentating!!

I woncder hoew many many more chinese players are involved?