2025 World Open (snooker)

The 2025 World Open (officially the 2025 Weide Cup World Open) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 23 February to 1 March 2025 at the Yushan Sport Centre in Yushan, China. Qualifiers took place from 20 to 22 December 2024 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. The 14th ranking event of the 2024‍–‍25 season, it followed the 2025 Welsh Open and preceded the 2025 World Grand Prix. The winner received £175,000 from a total prize fund of £825,000. Judd Trump was the defending champion, having defeated Ding Junhui 10‍–‍4 in the final of the 2024 event, but he lost 2‍–‍5 to Joe O'Connor in the last 32. John Higgins won the tournament, defeating O'Connor 10‍–‍6 in the final to claim the 32nd ranking title of his career and his first since the 2021 Players Championship four years earlier. Aged 49 years and 287 days, he became the second-oldest ranking event winner, after Ray Reardon, who was aged 50 years and 14 days when he won the 1982 Professional Players Tournament. Higgins also set a new record for the longest interval between a player's first and most recent ranking title, his victory coming 30 years and 129 days after his maiden ranking title at the 1994 Grand Prix. The event produced 136 century breaks, with 97 made during the main stage and 39 in the qualifying matches. The highest was a maximum break by Shaun Murphy in his last-64 match against Zhou Jinhao. It was the 10th maximum break of Murphy's professional career.