Snooker’s biggest names are heading to China for the 2025 Shanghai Masters for a week-long tournament that’s set to deliver world-class competition. Read on for our 2025 snooker Shanghai Masters predictions and betting tips.
The Luwan Gymnasium in Shanghai, China, will host the 24-player tournament. The top-16 rated players in the world make up most of the field. The four highest-ranked local players outside the global top-16 and four Chinese wildcard entries make up the rest of the field. The champion receives a ÂŁ210,000 paycheck from a total prize pool of ÂŁ825,000.
| ℹ️ Tournament: | 2025-26 Snooker Season, 2025 Shanghai Masters (Non-ranking event) |
| 🎱 Venue: | Luwan Gymnasium, Shanghai, China |
| 🗓️ Dates: | Monday, July 28 to Sunday, August 3, 2025 |
The 2025 Shanghai Masters is not one of the ranking events on the WST, but it brings the biggest prize fund of the new season so far. Now, it’s one of the most prestigious invitational tournaments on the calendar.
First introduced in 2007 as a ranking event, the Shanghai Masters welcomed the entire tour until its format changed in 2017. The tournament became a non-ranking one in 2018, and the field was narrowed down to 24 players. Since that shift, the format has stayed the same.
Last year, Judd Trump became the first player other than Ronnie O’Sullivan to win the competition since 2017. Trump saw off fellow Englishman Shaun Murphy to lift the trophy. O’Sullivan is the most successful player in the tournament’s history, having won it a record five times.
The 2025 Shanghai Masters snooker odds are now live. Before revealing our picks, let’s have a look at the favorite candidates for the title across top bookies:
Best snooker apps for betting are expecting Trump to successfully defend his title in Shanghai. Trump is also the current Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters and the UK Championship champion.
Zhao Xintong will make his first competitive appearance since becoming the new world champion, so he will be a popular pick for Shanghai Masters 2025 snooker predictions.
The Rocket was denied a fifth successive title last year when he lost to eventual champion Trump. O’Sullivan has been a bit out of form in recent times, but World Snooker Tour 2025-26 odds suggest the sportsbooks are not ready to rule out the record Shanghai Masters winner.
Kyren Wilson is another excellent option to bet on the Shanghai Masters snooker 2025. The Warrior beat Trump in three finals last year. For this reason, online betting with Trustly and other platforms are strongly backing him to win this tournament.
The Wales Open champion made a runner-up run here in 2016. Almost a decade later, Mark Selby will look to finally add the Shanghai Masters to his list of accolades.
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Xintong could be the man to beat in Shanghai. Since returning from a ban, he has been in electric form and comes to this competition as the newly crowned world champion. He won 47 of his 49 matches last season and cruised to the world title in Sheffield without ever looking troubled. Xintong will look to replicate that dominance in front of his local crowd.
His semi-final win over O’Sullivan came with a session to spare, and he looked set for a rout in the final too, racing 17-8 clear of Mark Williams before easing over the line 18-12. If he hits the kind of form we saw at the Crucible, the Cyclone should breeze through to the last four, and few would bet against him going all the way.
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Pang Junxu made it to the semi-finals of the Northern Ireland Open and the quarter-finals of the World Open last season, and he begins the new campaign sitting 26th in the rankings. The Chinese player has quietly built a reputation for grit and consistency. These qualities might give him the edge over Neil Robertson.
Although he claimed two ranking titles last term, the Thunder from Down Under suffered a shock early exit at the Crucible to Chris Wakelin and turned down the chance to feature in the Championship League curtain-raiser.
We’ll trust local stars Xintong and Pang Junxu for our final 2025 snooker Shanghai Masters predictions.
