The 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 8 to 16 August 2025 at Green Halls, Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The second and last edition of the tournament, which had first been staged in Riyadh in 2024, it was the second ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Championship League and preceding the 2025 Wuhan Open. It featured 144 participants, including 16 regional wildcard players. The tournament was broadcast by local channels in Saudi Arabia and by other broadcasters globally. The winner received £500,000 from a total prize fund of £2,302,000.
Judd Trump was the defending champion, having defeated Mark Williams 10–9 in the 2024 final, but he lost 3–5 to Oliver Lines in the fifth round (the last 32). Neil Robertson led Ronnie O'Sullivan 7–2 in the best-of-19-frame final. O'Sullivan took seven of the next eight frames to lead 9–8, but Robertson won the last two frames for a 10–9 victory, securing the 26th ranking title of his professional career. As in 2024, the final of the event went to a .
The tournament produced 91 century breaks, including three maximum breaks. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made the fifth maximum of his career in his third-round match against Jordan Brown, and O'Sullivan made the 16th and 17th maximums of his career in his semi-final match against Chris Wakelin. O'Sullivan became the second player to make two maximums in the same match, following Jackson Page at the 2025 World Championship qualifiers, and the first to make two maximums in the same session or on the same day. He won a £147,000 bonus for making two maximums across the season's four eligible tournaments and earned two-thirds of the event's £50,000 maximum break prize, with the other third going to Un-Nooh. The maximums were O'Sullivan's first in almost seven years—following his 15th official 147 at the 2018 English Open—and made him the oldest player to record an official maximum break, at the age of 49 years and 253 days. The maximums made at the event were respectively the third, fourth, and fifth of the season and the 220th, 221st, and 222nd official maximums in professional snooker history. O'Sullivan also made the 1,300th century break of his career at the tournament, while Mark Selby made his 900th career century.
Overview Organised by the World Snooker Tour and the Saudi Arabian Billiard & Snooker Federation (SABSF), the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters was held under the supervision of the Ministry of Sport for Saudi Arabia. First staged in September 2024 in Riyadh, it was the first ranking tournament held in Saudi Arabia and was promoted as snooker's "fourth major" alongside the three Triple Crown events—the World Championship, the UK Championship and the Masters. When the tournament was launched in 2024, its prize fund of over £2 million was the second-largest after the World Championship, while its winner's prize of £500,000 was equivalent to that at the World Championship. Judd Trump won the inaugural event, where he came from 62 points behind in the of the final to defeat Mark Williams on the last . In May 2025, it was announced that the tournament would move to Jeddah, where the 2025 edition took place from 8 to 16 August 2025 at Green Halls, Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City. It was the second ranking event of the 2025–26 snooker season, following the 2025 Championship League and preceding the 2025 Wuhan Open. In April 2026, the World Snooker Tour announced that the tournament had been cancelled by mutual agreement between the Saudi Arabian Billiard & Snooker Federation and Matchroom Sport, making the 2025 edition the last to be staged.
Participants A total of 144 players entered the tournament, including 16 regional wildcard players. The wildcards included eleven players from Saudi Arabia (Omar Alajlani, Ayman Alamri, Saud Albaker, Fahad Alghamdi, Musaad Almisfir, Abdullah Alotayyani, Ziyad Alqabbani, Abdullah Alshammari, Ahmed Aseeri, Abdulraouf Saigh, and Musab Sayegh), two from Pakistan (Adeel Aqdus and Asif Mukhtar), and one each from Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates (Habib Subah Humood, Hesham Shawky, and Mohammed Al Joker respectively).
Due to a fixture clash with the 2025 World Games, which took place from 7 to 17 August in Chengdu, China, the world number 13 Xiao Guodong and the reigning World Women's Champion Bai Yulu did not enter. Both players went on to win gold medals in snooker at the 2025 World Games, in the men's event and women's event respectively. On giving up the opportunity to compete in the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, Xiao said: "For me, national honour comes above everything else. Any time I get the chance to represent my country, I will give it my all—my only goal is the gold medal." Luca Brecel, the 2023 World Champion, withdrew from the tournament for medical reasons and his third-round opponent, Sanderson Lam, received a walkover.
Format The tournament used a tiered format similar to the World Championship and UK Championship, with the top 16 players in the snooker world rankings, as they stood after the 2025 Championship League, being seeded through to the last 32, the fifth round of the tournament. The first four rounds featured all lower-ranked players as well as the invited regional wildcards and Q School top-ups. Players seeded 49 to 80 received byes into the second round, and players seeded 17 to 48 received byes into the third round.
The first three rounds were played as the best of 7 while the fourth and fifth rounds were the best of 9 frames. The last 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals were the best of 11 frames and the final was the best of 19 frames, played over two .
Broadcasters The tournament was broadcast by Saudi Sports Company (SSC) and Shahid domestically in Saudi Arabia. It was broadcast by TNT Sports and Discovery+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland; by Eurosport in mainland Europe; by Discovery+ in Germany, Italy, and Austria; and by HBO Max in other European territories. It was broadcast by , Huya, the CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat channel, and the CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin channel in mainland China; by Now TV in Hong Kong; by TrueSports in Thailand; by Sportcast in Taiwan; and by TAP Sports in the Philippines. In all other territories, it was broadcast by WST Play.
Prize fund The prize fund for the tournament is detailed below. In addition, during the 2025–26 snooker season, a player who made two maximum breaks across the four qualifying events—the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, the 2025 UK Championship (including qualifiers), the 2026 Masters, and the 2026 World Championship (including qualifiers)—would win a bonus of £147,000. The bonus could be won up to three times, including multiple times by the same player.
Winner: £500,000 Runner-up: £200,000 Semi-final: £100,000 Quarter-final: £50,000 Last 16: £30,000 Last 32: £20,000 Last 48: £11,000 Last 80: £7,000 Last 112: £4,000 Last 144: £2,000 147 break: £50,000
Total: £2,302,000
Summary
First round (last 144)
The first round was scheduled to be played on 8 August as the best of seven . It featured the 16 regional wildcard players, amateur top-up players from the Q School Order of Merit, and players seeded 81 and below. Due to technical issues, seven first-round matches were postponed until the morning of 9 August, when they were played in an untelevised session. Veteran players Ken Doherty, aged 55, and Jimmy White, aged 63, met in professional competition for the first time since the 2010 World Championship qualifying rounds. Doherty won the match 4–1, making three breaks of 96, 59, and 64. Reanne Evans, a 12-time World Women's Champion, defeated Kreishh Gurbaxani 4–2. It was her third consecutive professional victory of the season in knock-out tournaments, following her wins in the qualifying rounds of the 2025 Wuhan Open (held in June) and the 2025 British Open. Evans was the only female player to reach the second round, as Mink Nutcharut lost 1–4 to amateur player Umut Dikme and Ng On-yee lost 3–4 to Hatem Yassen.
Sahil Nayyar, who had earned a two-year tour card by winning the 2024 Pan-American Open Championship, secured his first professional victory with a 4–1 win over wildcard player Habib Subah Humood. Michał Szubarczyk, aged 14, who had recently become the youngest ever professional snooker player, also recorded his first win on the tour by defeating Ryan Davies 4–2. Dylan Emery led Florian Nüßle 3–0. Nüßle recovered to tie the scores, but Emery won the on the . Steven Hallworth recorded a whitewash victory over wildcard player Omar Alajlani, Saudi Arabia's top-ranked amateur. Hesham Shawky was the only wildcard player to reach the second round, after a 4–2 win over Jiang Jun. Chang Bingyu, who had served a two-year ban for match-fixing offences, and then earned a new professional tour card by winning the 2025 Asia-Pacific Snooker Championship, defeated Marco Fu in a deciding frame. Iulian Boiko advanced with a 4–2 win over Liu Wenwei.
Second round (last 112) The second round was played on 9 August as the best of seven frames. It featured the winners of the first round against players seeded 49 to 80. Szubarczyk made a 93 break in the fourth frame against Bulcsú Révész and went on to win the match in a deciding frame, commenting afterwards that "I need to improve my ". Evans lost two of the first three frames against Liam Davies but then won three consecutive frames for a 4–2 victory. Stan Moody trailed Liam Highfield 2–3 but produced back-to-back centuries of 130 and 109 to win the match 4–3. The deciding frame between Hallworth and Michael Holt came down to a safety battle on the last . After a safety error from Holt, Hallworth potted the pink in a to secure a 4–3 win.
Ben Mertens made an 87 break in the deciding frame to defeat Ross Muir. Sam Craigie, who had not competed the previous season due to injury, but had been awarded a new two-year tour card on medical grounds, made centuries of 122 and 104 as he whitewashed Mark Davis. "In practice I feel better than ever, and today was the first time I have shown that in a match," he said afterwards. Boiko made five half-centuries as he defeated Zak Surety 4–1. Doherty lost a deciding frame to Artemijs Žižins after he missed a on the last and went . Julien Leclercq advanced with a 4–1 win over Dikme. Chatchapong Nasa, playing his first season on the professional tour, arrived late for his match against David Lilley, a former World Seniors Champion. Nasa was docked the first frame, but he won the match after taking the deciding frame on the colours.
Third round (last 80)
The third round was played on 10 August as the best of seven frames. It featured the winners of the second round against players seeded 17 to 48. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made the fifth maximum break of his career in his whitewash victory over Jordan Brown, becoming the 15th player in professional snooker history to reach the milestone of five maximums. It was the third maximum break of the season and the 220th official maximum in professional snooker history.
Jack Lisowski made breaks of 81 and 88 as he whitewashed Evans. Hallworth trailed Jimmy Robertson 0–2 and 1–3 but tied the scores at 3–3 and then won the deciding frame with a on the colours. The match between Oliver Lines and Matthew Selt also went to a deciding frame, which culminated in a safety battle on the last pink. Lines secured victory by potting pink and black after Selt went in-off the pink. Stuart Bingham defeated Szubarczyk 4–1, and Moody made a 142 break as he defeated Ryan Day 4–2. Aaron Hill made a 120 break against Robert Milkins and won the match in a deciding frame. Gary Wilson also advanced after winning a decider against Gao Yang.