With an enormous prize fund on the Saudi Arabia Masters in Riyadh, there have been naturally loads of adjustments within the snooker rankings.
The inaugural staging of the massive event wasn’t with out controversy however finally concluded in thrilling trend, with Judd Trump edging Mark Williams 10-9 on the ultimate black.
It was the third rating occasion of the 2024/25 snooker season following Championship League Snooker and the Xi’an Grand Prix.
Let’s check out how the mega occasion on the Inexperienced Halls impacted the snooker rankings.
World primary
Judd Trump was already the world primary heading into the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, having reclaimed prime spot throughout his current run to the ultimate in Xi’an.
With an extra £500,000 in earnings, the Englishman has pulled nicely away from the chasing pack and now boasts an infinite lead on the summit of the standings.
Trump doesn’t have an enormous sum of money to defend between now and the tip of the marketing campaign, that means it’s extremely unlikely that he’ll give up prime spot any time quickly.
World champion Kyren Wilson may solely attain the final 16 in Riyadh, however with Mark Allen shedding his opening fixture and taking away zero rating factors, the Kettering cueist has usurped the Northern Irishman into second place.
Allen, who started the summer time because the world primary, has plenty of factors to defend from two seasons in the past and can wrestle to remain on the prime finish of the official rolling snooker rankings.
High 16
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Selby keep in fourth and fifth respectively forward of Mark Williams, who rises three locations to sixth after bagging £200,000.
After shedding early once more, Luca Brecel has slipped all the way down to seventh and there are growing issues over the Belgian Bullet’s tour survival.
That may appear unusual to say, however with half 1,000,000 kilos coming off his tally subsequent April, Brecel has a provisional end-of-season rating of 62 – simply contained in the essential prime 64 cut-off level.
Shaun Murphy, Ding Junhui, and Gary Wilson full the highest ten forward of Ali Carter, who has struggled a bit since successful Championship League Snooker.
Zhang Anda stays in twelfth in entrance of fellow Chinese language competitor Si Jiahui – snooker’s latest member of the elite prime 16.
Si has risen 9 locations to interrupt into the highest 16 for the primary time in his profession following a powerful run to the final 4 in Saudi Arabia.
Tom Ford and Jak Jones are subsequent within the standings forward of John Higgins, the Scot nearly holding onto his standing among the many prime 16.
Who had been the opposite movers?
Xiao Guodong has begun the season in first rate kind, and his quarter-final look on the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters has helped him transfer up six locations within the rankings and again into the highest 32 at quantity 29.
Elliot Slessor and Scott Donaldson each rose seven locations to quantity 35 and quantity 43 respectively.
The largest mover, although, was Jimmy Robertson with the Englishman bettering his place by 14 spots to quantity 38.
| Official 2-12 months World Rankings | Sept 9, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,474,000 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £978,500 |
| 3 | Mark Allen | £974,000 |
| 4 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £739,500 |
| 5 | Mark Selby | £660,500 |
| 6 | Mark Williams | £658,000 |
| 7 | Luca Brecel | £654,500 |
| 8 | Shaun Murphy | £598,500 |
| 9 | Ding Junhui | £466,500 |
| 10 | Gary Wilson | £456,400 |
| 11 | Ali Carter | £439,500 |
| 12 | Zhang Anda | £437,350 |
| 13 | Si Jiahui | £349,400 |
| 14 | Tom Ford | £343,850 |
| 15 | Jak Jones | £332,500 |
| 16 | John Higgins | £309,850 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Ryan Day | £301,400 |
| 18 | Barry Hawkins | £297,850 |
| 19 | Jack Lisowski | £295,900 |
| 20 | Robert Milkins | £286,000 |
| 21 | David Gilbert | £284,850 |
| 22 | Hossein Vafaei | £266,500 |
| 23 | Stuart Bingham | £251,900 |
| 24 | Chris Wakelin | £245,400 |
| 25 | Zhou Yuelong | £238,850 |
1-year snooker rankings
Like in earlier years, the single-season rankings will decide qualification spots for a number of profitable rating occasions.
Final season, the highest 32 from this checklist certified for the World Grand Prix, the highest 16 for the Gamers Championship, and the highest 12 for the Tour Championship.
Judd Trump is once more method out in entrance following his huge takings from Saudi Arabia.
Certainly, all of the gamers who reached the latter phases in Riyadh have set themselves up properly to compete in all three of these huge tournaments later within the marketing campaign.
Amongst these struggling to make a lot headway are Mark Allen and Mark Selby, who’re at the moment ranked exterior the essential prime 32.
Luca Brecel and Ding Junhui are different notable names who want to enhance having banked zero rating factors this time period thus far.
| 1-12 months Snooker Rankings | Sept 9, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £576,000 |
| 2 | Mark Williams | £223,000 |
| 3 | Kyren Wilson | £209,000 |
| 4 | Shaun Murphy | £114,400 |
| 5 | Si Jiahui | £113,400 |
| 6 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £85,500 |
| 7 | Jimmy Robertson | £64,000 |
| 8 | Xiao Guodong | £59,400 |
| 9 | Neil Robertson | £59,350 |
| 10 | David Gilbert | £53,350 |
| 11 | Scott Donaldson | £46,350 |
| 12 | Stuart Bingham | £45,400 |
| =12 | Gary Wilson | £45,400 |
| 14 | Jack Lisowski | £44,400 |
| 15 | Pang Junxu | £41,400 |
| 16 | Elliot Slessor | £37,350 |
| 17 | Daniel Wells | £36,500 |
| 18 | Zhang Anda | £35,350 |
| 19 | Matthew Selt | £35,350 |
| 20 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £34,400 |
| 21 | Ali Carter | £33,000 |
| 22 | Yuan Sijun | £31,400 |
| 23 | Hossein Vafaei | £31,000 |
| 24 | Ben Woollaston | £26,000 |
| =24 | Wu Yize | £26,000 |
| 26 | Gong Chenzhi | £26,000 |
| 27 | Ryan Day | £25,400 |
| 28 | Chris Wakelin | £24,400 |
| 29 | Xu Si | £23,350 |
| 30 | Jackson Web page | £23,000 |
| 31 | Barry Hawkins | £22,350 |
| 32 | Graeme Dott | £21,400 |
| — | — | — |
| =47 | Mark Selby | £14,000 |
| =47 | Mark Allen | £14,000 |
| N/R | Ding Junhui | £0 |
| N/R | Luca Brecel | £0 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
The subsequent occasion on the World Snooker Tour calendar is the English Open on the Brentwood Leisure Centre, the place Judd Trump is the defending champion.
There shall be a preliminary part for the event from Thursday to Saturday, the place lower-ranked gamers will try to hitch the highest 32 within the final 64.
The principle phases start subsequent week on Monday, with the champion to be topped on September twenty second.
Extra particulars for the English Open, together with the draw and watch, shall be printed on this web site later this week.
2024/25 WST calendar
Word: Dates are provisional and topic to alter
COMPLETED
Championship League Snooker
Champion: Ali Carter
Shanghai Masters
Champion: Judd Trump
Xi’an Grand Prix
Champion: Kyren Wilson
Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters
Champion: Judd Trump
SEPTEMBER
twelfth to twenty second
English Open (together with qualifiers)
(Brentwood Centre, Brentwood)
twenty third to twenty ninth
British Open
(The Centaur, Cheltenham)
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Northern Eire Open qualifiers
(Ponds Forge, Sheffield)
OCTOBER
1st to third
Worldwide Championship qualifiers
(Ponds Forge, Sheffield)
sixth to twelfth
Wuhan Open
(Wuhan, China)
twentieth to twenty seventh
Northern Eire Open
(Waterfront Corridor, Belfast)
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Scottish Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Enviornment, Sheffield)
NOVEMBER
third to tenth
Worldwide Championship
(Tianjin, China)
eleventh to seventeenth
Champion of Champions
(Toughsheet Neighborhood Stadium, Bolton)
sixteenth to twenty first
UK Championship qualifiers
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
twenty third to December 1st
UK Championship
(York Barbican, York)
DECEMBER
4th to seventh
Shoot Out
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)
ninth to fifteenth
Scottish Open
(Meadowbank Sports activities Centre, Edinburgh)
sixteenth to twenty second
– German Masters qualifiers
– World Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Enviornment, Sheffield)
JANUARY
twelfth to nineteenth
The Masters
(Alexandra Palace, London)
twenty seventh to February 2nd
German Masters
(Tempodrom, Berlin)
FEBRUARY
tenth to sixteenth
Welsh Open
(Venue Cymru, Llandudno)
MARCH
TBC
World Grand Prix
(TBC)
third to ninth
World Open
(Yushan, China)
seventeenth to twenty third
Gamers Championship
(Telford, England)
thirty first to April sixth
Tour Championship
(Manchester Central, Manchester)
APRIL
seventh to sixteenth
World Championship qualifiers
(EIS, Sheffield)
nineteenth to Could fifth
World Snooker Championship
(Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
Featured photograph credit score: WST
