Maguire Wins 2025 Championship League

Stephen Maguire has won nan first ranking arena of nan season, beating Joe O'Connor 3-1 successful nan last of nan 2025 Championship League successful Leicester.

It is nan 44-year-old Scot's seventh profession ranking title from 15 finals and his first since winning nan 2020 Tour Championship.

The tournament, which takes spot complete 3 stages and began astatine Leicester Arena connected 30 June, reached its finale connected Wednesday, pinch conscionable 8 of nan 128-strong section remaining.

Maguire booked his spot successful nan last aft topping Group 2 successful a best-of-four framework round-robin. The 15th seed hit Matthew Selt (3-0) and Ben Mertens (3-0) earlier losing to China's Pang Junxu (3-1).

Leicester-born O'Connor, seeded 16th, only dropped 2 frames to decorativeness first successful Group 1, beating Ricky Walden (3-1), Xu Si (3-1), and Tom Ford (3-0).

In nan best-of-five framework final, Maguire took a 2-0 lead earlier O'Connor pulled 1 framework backmost pinch a 99-point break. However, Maguire produced a match-winning 89 to unafraid nan title pinch a framework to spare.