The top 16 seeds will be drawn at random against the 16 players who come through the qualifying tournament across Tuesday 16th – Wednesday 17th April.
The seeded players included world number one Ronnie O’Sullivan and defending champion Luca Brecel, who gets his title defence underway at 10:00 BST on Saturday 20 April.
Crucible seeds
1. Luca Brecel, 2. Ronnie O’Sullivan, 3. Judd Trump, 4. Mark Allen, 5. Mark Selby, 6. Mark Williams, 7. Ding Junhui, 8. Shaun Murphy
9. Ali Carter, 10. Gary Wilson, 11. Zhang Anda, 12. Kyren Wilson, 13. John Higgins, 14. Tom Ford, 15. Barry Hawkins, 16. Robert Milkins
Unseeded
17. Jack Lisowski, 18. Ryan Day, 19. Hossein Vafaei, 20. Si Jiahui, 21. Lyu Haotian, 22. Pang Junxu, 23. Stephen Maguire, 24. Stuart Bingham, 25. Joe O’Connor, 26. David Gilbert, 27. Ricky Walden, 28. Dominic Dale, 29. Jamie Jones, 30. Jackson Page, 31. Jak Jones, 32. Robbie Williams
Ronnie O’Sullivan of England plays a shot
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