2025 Xi’an Grand Prix snooker odds and betting predictions

The World Snooker Tour returns to China this week for the 2025 Xi'an Grand Prix which takes place between October 7-13.

This is the second edition of the £850,000 world ranking event; Kyren Wilson is the reigning and defending champion having ousted Judd Trump in last year's final.

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Honours on this season's professional circuit have been spread about. From the six completed events so far, there have been six different winners and 12 different finalists - the strength and depth of the sport’s top-flight roster has arguably never been better. 

We've also seen an incredible 11 maximum breaks made this term. The record for the most 147s in a single season is 15 – with this current campaign set to carry on until May, that benchmark could be smashed.

Out-of-sorts Judd Trump favourite for the Xi’an title 

A very impressive line-up is scheduled to cue up in the Far East over the coming days, with only a few star players absent.

The usual suspects are at the top of the outright betting; world number one Trump (4/1 Coral) is the favourite, with reigning world champion Zhao Xintong (6/1 William Hill) generally second in the ratings.

However, there are currently question marks around both players with neither having made a final this season, and at several events they have exited the stage relatively early on. I’d expect Trump to end that drought soon, though.

Rocket to start firing again?

The Xi’an Grand Prix sees the return of a certain Ronnie O’Sullivan (13/2 Betway), who will be making his first competitive appearance since reaching the final of the Saudi Arabia Masters in mid-August.

During that event, ‘The Rocket’ memorably made two 147s within the same match, so it appears he is settling in well with his new cue, but whether his seven-week absence has halted his momentum or if there is a hangover from his narrow loss in the Jeddah final waits to be seen.

This tournament features a 128-player flat draw (bar one preliminary round match beforehand) meaning several of the big names – who have had their round one fixtures held over to the main venue – would need to win seven matches in seven days to claim the title and £177,000 top prize.

For someone like 49-year-old O’Sullivan who has not won a competition with this sort of format since 2017, that could be prohibitive, although you can never write off the GOAT, plus he did make the last four here last year.

The value plays 

With an out-of-sorts Trump and Zhao both in the same bottom half of the draw, I’m looking elsewhere for opportunities. Despite also having not featured in a final this term, 

Mark Selby (7/1 Ladbrokes) is bubbling away nicely – he's just made back-to-back semi-finals in consecutive weeks, and he could reach the quarter-finals here without playing someone ranked inside the world’s top 32.

I still don’t feel Selby is anywhere near the peak form he was at a decade or so ago when he spent long spells as the world number one, but he is going deep at events and scoring very well. 

He is joint-second on this season’s century breaks list and has won seven ranking event titles in China before.

The other top 16 ranked exponents in the bottom half of the draw with Selby – as well as Trump and Zhao – are Mark Williams, Barry Hawkins and Si Jiahui.

As the number one seed, title holder Kyren Wilson is positioned at the top of the draw, but he is in a very competitive opening quarter that also includes recent British Open champion Shaun Murphy, recent English Open champion Mark Allen, Ding Junhui, Wu Yize and Elliot Slessor. Only one of these can make it through to the semi-finals.

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World number two Wilson (9/1 Betway) began the new term brilliantly with success at the Shanghai Masters, but he has gone quiet since. Murphy (12/1 William Hill) is in seriously red-hot form after his triumph in Cheltenham just several days ago, but it is so difficult to secure consecutive titles on the Tour. 

O’Sullivan is in the second quarter of the draw and doesn’t have the worst route early on, but it’s Neil Robertson (15/2 Coral) I’d want to explore elsewhere in that section.

The world number three has already been in China playing at a high-profile exhibition where he made a 147, so hopefully he’ll be acclimatised well. 

The Australian ace could meet either Gary Wilson or Chris Wakein in the last 16, and potentially O’Sullivan in the quarter-finals. Robertson has a strong recent record against the seven-time world champion that includes denying him in that recent, epic Saudi final.

Robertson has won a plethora of trophies throughout his career in Asia – two have come in 2025 – and I think he can add to his total here.

FIRST’s top tip

Pick: Mark Selby to win the 2025 Xi’an Grand Prix (7/1 Ladbrokes)

Extra tips

Pick: Neil Robertson to win the 2025 Xi’an Grand Prix (15/2 Coral)

Jackson to be a Page-turner in China?

It’s difficult to make a strong case for an outsider in Xi’an with such a stacked field reasonably spread out across the drawsheet. 

We have seen a couple of unlikely finalists in recent weeks on the circuit (Zhou Yuelong and Anthony McGill), but with a slightly longer format here, the odds of that happening again reduce a bit.

If you are looking for a long shot to perhaps have fun with, though, Jackson Page (80/1 Coral) may fit the bill.

The 24-year-old Welshman – who is a friend and practice partner of Mark Williams – is inconsistent. But he is very entertaining to watch with a brand of attacking, free-flowing snooker. He is one of the hottest young properties in the sport right now.

The last 18 months or so have seen Page go up several levels. Before that spell, he hadn’t been to a single quarter-final – now he has five to his name, including a semi-final, and final.

Page made the last eight of last month’s English Open (losing to Selby in a deciding frame) and he has been to the latter stages of two tournaments in China before (2024 World Open semi-finals, 2024 International Championship quarter-finals).

He is in that aforementioned tricky top quarter of the draw, but Page doesn’t seem to shirk away from a big encounter.

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