2007 World Snooker Champion John Higgins will be competing against Matthew Stevens on the first round of the 2008 World Championship scheduled to begin on April 19, 2008 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Last year’s runner up Mark Selby is put up against Mark King and other interesting duos include Ronnie O’sullivan vs.  Liu Chuang, Steven Hendry faces Mark Allen and veteran Steve Davis will play against Stuart Bingham. The World Snooker Championship draw was broadcast live, for the first time at the sponsors’  website 888. 

"Matthew is one of the toughest I could have got" Higgins responded to the draw that placed him against two-times World Championship runner up whose World Snooker Championship record includes zero first round losses. Ronnie O’sullivan, who won the UK Championship title when he was only 17, gets a chance to revive his teen spirit in his first round match against 17 years old Liu Chuang. The latter was thrilled to find out he was drawn to play against his role model. Mark King who has drawn Jimmy White out of the competition will be challenging Mark Selby, who at the 2007 World Snooker Championship waived the title after losing 13-18 to the Wizard of Wishaw.

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