The 2023 WST Classic was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 16 to 22 March 2023 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England. It was the 13th ranking event of the 2022–23 season and the inaugural staging of the WST Classic, which the World Snooker Tour added to the calendar midway through the season to replace the cancelled 2023 Turkish Masters. The last qualifying event before the 2023 Tour Championship, the tournament was streamed on Matchroom.live in all territories apart from China, Hong Kong, and Thailand, where it was carried by local broadcasters. The winner received £80,000 from a total prize fund of £427,000.

Mark Selby won the only edition of the tournament. Competing in his home city, he defeated Pang Junxu 6–2 to win his 22nd ranking title, this was the first ranking final of Pang's career.

There were 88 century breaks made during the event. Judd Trump made his 900th century break in professional competition during his first-round match against David Lilley, becoming the third player—after Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins—to reach that milestone. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made the highest break of the tournament, a maximum break in the fifth frame of his last-64 match against Xu Si. This was Un-Nooh's fourth competitive maximum break.

Format The tournament featured 128 players. The top 64 players in the snooker world rankings after the Players Championship were seeded in the draw, with the remaining 64 players drawn at random against them. Matches were played as the best of seven up to and including the quarter-finals. The semi-finals were played over the best of nine frames. The final was played over the best of 11 frames. The last three rounds were all played on the final day.

Prize fund The event featured a prize fund of £427,000, with the winner receiving £80,000. The breakdown of prize money for this event is shown below:

Winner: £80,000 Runner-up: £35,000 Semi-final: £17,500 Quarter-final: £11,000 Last 16: £7,500 Last 32: £4,500 Last 64: £3,000 Highest break: £5,000 Total: £427,000

Tournament draw Top half Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final Final: Best of 11 frames. Referee: Rob Spencer Morningside Arena, Leicester, England, 22 March 2023 Pang Junxu (44) 2–6 Mark Selby (2) Frame scores: 0–104 (104), 0–138 (138), 79–18, 27–87, 0–120 (120), 64–16, 33–81, 0–83 75 Highest break 138 0 Century breaks 3

Century breaks A total of 88 century breaks were made during the event.

147, 115 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 143, 140 Shaun Murphy 141, 123 Daniel Wells 140 Mark Joyce 139 Pang Junxu 138, 138, 120, 105, 104 Mark Selby 138, 130, 104 Xu Si 137, 104 Ronnie O'Sullivan 137 Stephen Maguire 136, 135, 126, 126, 121, 102 John Higgins 136 Andrew Higginson 135, 135, 121, 107, 103 Gary Wilson 135, 104, 103 Hossein Vafaei 135 Anthony McGill 133 Ding Junhui 132 Jimmy White 131, 113 Judd Trump 131 Jamie Jones 131 Andrew Pagett 130 Graeme Dott 129, 112 Barry Hawkins 129, 106, 101 Ali Carter 129, 101 Jack Lisowski 128, 102, 102 Zhou Yuelong 128 John J. Astley 127 Tom Ford 126 Noppon Saengkham 123 Si Jiahui 122 Xiao Guodong 120, 118, 117 Lyu Haotian 120 David Grace 115, 113 Haydon Pinhey 115, 103 Chris Wakelin 113, 100 David Gilbert 110 Jackson Page 109, 100 Stuart Bingham 109 Lukas Kleckers 109 Matthew Selt 107 Anton Kazakov 107 Ben Mertens 105, 101 Kyren Wilson 105 Jenson Kendrick 104, 103 Jamie Clarke 104 Anthony Hamilton 103, 100 Neil Robertson 102 Mark Davis 101 James Cahill 101 Dechawat Poomjaeng 100 Fan Zhengyi 100 Liam Highfield 100 Yuan Sijun

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