World Snooker Championship 2025 results, scores and schedule for Day 3

John Higgins gets his campaign underway on Monday (Picture: Getty Images)

The 2025 World Snooker Championship is underway and in some style after a dramatic start to the contests at the Crucible in Sheffield.

The opening day produced a stunning upset as defending champion Kyren Wilson was ousted by debutant Lei Peifan in a deciding frame victory for the Chinese youngster.

Further shocks have followed, with Neil Robertson downed by Chris Wakelin and Barry Hawkins beaten by Hossein Vafaei on Sunday.

Rarely a predictable tournament, the World Championship is throwing up surprise results as ever and the remaining seeds will be hoping to avoid the same fate in the coming days.

The first round runs all the way until Thursday, with an awful lot more snooker to come until the trophy is handed out on May 5.

One player who looks to be in contention to get his hands on that famous old trophy is Zhao Xintong, who has started in seriously impressive fashion in his first round meeting with Jak Jones.

The form player on the planet right now is John Higgins after his Tour Championship win earlier this month, he begins his campaign on Monday morning.

Zhao Xintong has been very impressive so far in Sheffield (Picture: Getty Images)

World Snooker Championship Day Three Schedule – Monday April 21

10.00
Jak Jones 2-7 Zhao Xintong
John Higgins vs Joe O’Connor

14.30
Mark Allen 5-4 Fan Zhengyi
Ding Junhui vs Zak Surety

19.00
John Higgins vs Joe O’Connor
Si Jiahui vs Dave Gilbert

The stars of the Crucible lined up on the Friday before the tournament began (Picture: Getty Images)

Tuesday April 22

10.00
Zhang Anda vs Pang Junxu
Shaun Murphy vs Daniel Wells

14.30
Ding Junhui vs Zak Surety
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Ali Carter

19.00
Si Jiahui vs Dave Gilbert
Judd Trump vs Zhou Yuelong

Wednesday April 23

10.00
Zhang Anda vs Pang Junxu
Shaun Murphy vs Daniel Wells

14.30
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Ali Carter
Luca Brecel vs Ryan Day

19.00
Judd Trump vs Zhou Yuelong
Mark Selby vs Ben Woollaston

Thursday April 24

13.00
Luca Brecel vs Ryan Day

19.00
Mark Selby vs Ben Woollaston

World Snooker Championship results

Round One

Lei Peifan 10-9 Kyren Wilson
Xiao Guodong 10-4 Matthew Selt
Mark Williams 10-8 Wu Yize
Hossein Vafaei 10-9 Barry Hawkins
Chris Wakelin 10-8 Neil Robertson