World Snooker Championship 2023 qualifying: Jimmy White faces potential Marco Fu clash, Stephen Henry v James Cahill

Jimmy White faces a potential showdown against Marco Fu in the second qualifying round of the World Snooker Championship.

The draw for the four qualifying rounds, which take place from April 3 to April 12 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, will see the field of 128 players whittled down to the final 32 for the Crucible showpiece event.

Former two-time semi-finalist Fu faces Martin O’Donnell in the first qualifying round with the winner going on to face six-time runner-up White, who has been given a bye.

The draw also pits fellow veteran and seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry against James Cahill, who famously beat Ronnie O’Sullivan on his Crucible debut in 2019.

The winner of that match will then take on the talented Chinese youngster Lei Peifan.

Ken Doherty, who beat Hendry in the 1997 final, will take on 12-time women’s world champion Reanne Evans, while 16-year-old Stan Moody faces Andres Petrov, who became Estonia’s first ever professional snooker player last year.

SCHEDULE

Round 1

• Ashley Hugill v George Pragnell
• Fergal O’Brien v Liam Davies
• Zak Surety v Farakh Ajaib
• Ken Doherty v Reanne Evans
• Ng On Yee v Michael Holt
• Ben Mertens v Victor Sarkis
• Ryan Thomerson v Ian Martin
• James Cahill v Stephen Hendry
• Andrew Pagett v Gao Yang
• Oliver Brown v Ross Muir
• Andy Lee v Andrew Higginson
• Sean O’Sullivan v Liam Graham
• Peng Yisong v Michael Georgiou
• Sanderson Lam v Liam Pullen
• Dechawat Poomjaeng v Mink Nutcharut
• Barry Pinches v Ross Bulman
• John Astley v Steven Hallworth
• Himanshu Dinesh Jain v Daniel Wells
• Marco Fu v Martin O’Donnell
• Andres Petrov v Stan Moody
• Jamie O’Neill v Bulcsu Revesz
• Dean Young v Haydon Pinhey
• Mohamed Ibrahim v Anton Kazakov
• Dylan Emery v Hai Long Ma
• Michael Judge v Florian Nuessle
• Asjad Iqbal v Jenson Kendrick
• Aaron Hill v Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan
• Allan Taylor v Filipp Kalnins
• Muhammad Asif v Iulian Boiko
• Alfie Burden v Rebecca Kenna
• Adam Duffy v Billy Joe Castle
• David Lilley v Rory McLeod

Round 2

• Lukas Kleckers v Hugill/Pragnell
• Scott Donaldson v O’Brien/Davies
• Xu Si v Surety/Ajaib
• Hammad Miah v Doherty/Evans
• Oliver Lines v Ng/Holt
• Julien Leclercq v Mertens/Sarkis
• Elliot Slessor v Thomerson/Martin
• Lei Peifan v Cahill/Hendry
• Duane Jones v Pagett/Yang
• Jackson Page v Brown/Muir
• Louis Heathcote v Lee/Higginson
• David Grace v O’Sullivan/Graham
• Mark Davis v Peng/Georgiou
• Mitchell Mann v Lam/Pullen
• Matthew Stevens v Poomjaeng/Mink
• Fraser Patrick v Pinches/Bulman
• Craig Steadman v Astley/Hallworth
• Ben Woollaston v Jain/Wells
• Jimmy White v Fu/O’Donnell
• Zhang Anda v Petrov/Moody
• Andy Hicks v O’Neill/Revesz
• Peter Lines v Young/Pinhey
• Mark Joyce v Ibrahim/Kazakov
• Ian Burns v Emery/Ma
• Si Jiahui v Judge/Nuessle
• Dominic Dale v Iqbal/Kendrick
• Michael White v Hill/Nuanthakhamjan
• Wu Yize v Taylor/Kalnins
• Stuart Carrington v Asif/Boiko
• Alexander Ursenbacher v Burden/Kenna
• Jak Jones v Duffy/Castle
• Gerard Greene v Lilley/McLeod

Round 3

• TBC v TBC
• Yuan Sijun v TBC
• Jamie Jones v TBC
• Pang Junxu v TBC
• Anthony Hamilton v TBC
• Jimmy Robertson v TBC
• Liam Highfield v TBC
• Zhou Yuelong v TBC
• Hossein Vafaei v TBC
• Martin Gould v TBC
• Joe O’Connor v TBC
• Sam Craigie v TBC
• Lyu Haotian v TBC
• Joe Perry v TBC
• Jamie Clarke v TBC
• David Gilbert v TBC
• Anthony McGill v TBC
• Cao Yupeng v TBC
• Noppon Saengkham v TBC
• Xiao Guodong v TBC
• Graeme Dott v TBC
• Matthew Selt v TBC
• Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v TBC
• Ricky Walden v TBC
• Tom Ford v TBC
• Jordan Brown v TBC
• Chris Wakelin v TBC
• Tian Pengfei v TBC
• Fan Zhengyi v TBC
• Stephen Maguire v TBC
• Robbie Williams v TBC
• Barry Hawkins v TBC

Round 4

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