JenningsBet British Seniors Snooker Open 2025 | Tournament Preview

The 2025 JenningsBet British Seniors Snooker Open takes place at Vaillant Live in Derby on 26-28 December with a star-studded line-up competing for glory.

The event will be shown live on Channel 5 in the UK with former world champions Ken Doherty and Stuart Bingham joined by four-time World Seniors champion Jimmy White, newly-crowned Shoot Out winner Alfie Burden and former UK and Masters victor Matthew Stevens.

Ranking event winners Joe Perry, Dominic Dale and Anthony Hamilton complete the eight-player line-up in Derby.

The Draw

• Quarter-Finals (Friday 26 December)
  • Alfie Burden (1) vs. Dominic Dale
  • Ken Doherty (4) vs. Jimmy White
  • Matthew Stevens (3) vs. Anthony Hamilton
  • Stuart Bingham (2) vs. Joe Perry
• Semi-Finals (Saturday 27 December)
  • Burden/Dale vs. Doherty/White
  • Stevens/Hamilton vs. Bingham/Perry
• Final (Sunday 28 December)
  • Winner of SF1 vs. Winner of SF2

The afternoon session begins at 13:00 on Boxing Day with 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham making his debut on the World Seniors Snooker Tour.

The 49-year-old, who also won the Masters in 2020, is the JenningsBet tournament favourite and will begin his campaign against ‘The Gentleman’ Joe Perry on Friday afternoon.

Jimmy White and Ken Doherty will conclude the afternoon session as two of the sport’s most popular stars go head-to-head at the Vaillant Live.

The quarter-final match is a repeat of the 2020 World Seniors Snooker Championship final, where ‘The Whirlwind’ came back from a 4-0 deficit to win 5-4 in an epic Crucible contest.

Anthony Hamilton and Matthew Stevens get the evening session underway in Derby as ‘The Sheriff of Pottingham’, a former German Masters champion, takes on the two-time World Championship runner-up on his World Seniors Snooker Tour debut.

The concluding match of the opening round features reigning World Seniors champion Alfie Burden, who won the first ranking event title of his career last month as a late entry at the Shoot Out. He will face ‘The Spaceman’ Dominic Dale – a former winner of the Grand Prix and Shanghai Masters.

Format

The format for the event is as follows:

• Quarter-Finals: Best of 7 Frames
• Semi-Finals: Best of 9 Frames
• Final: Best of 13 Frames

In an exciting and unique twist, should any match in the event go the distance then the deciding frame will be replaced by a respotted black.

Limited tickets remain available for the 2025 JenningsBet British Seniors Open which gets underway on 26 December with sessions at 13:00 and 19:00. Get your tickets here.