The newest snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2024 Worldwide Championship, the season’s eighth rating match.
Ding Junhui beat Chris Wakelin 10-7 on Sunday in Nanjing to say his fifteenth profession rating title and the £175,000 champion’s cheque.
Victory for the Chinese language star on dwelling turf introduced him a primary piece of silverware that carries rating standing because the 2019 UK Championship.
Let’s check out how the ends in China impacted the varied snooker rankings lists.
High 16 and Race to the UK Championship
Ding Junhui moved up one spot on the official two-year standings, returning to the highest eight on the earth.
World primary Judd Trump, in the meantime, maintained his wholesome buffer over the chasing pack regardless of exiting proceedings earlier than the quarter-final stage for the primary time in 2024.
Kyren Wilson, Mark Allen, Mark Selby, and Ronnie O’Sullivan proceed to occupy the opposite spots within the high 5.
One other early defeat for Luca Brecel implies that the struggling Belgian drops down one spot and beneath Mark Williams.
Shaun Murphy and Gary Wilson are in ninth and tenth respectively, with the latter solely a small margin in entrance of Zhang Anda, Ali Carter, and Si Jiahui.
There was late drama with the remaining positions as gamers hunted down a top-16 rating and automated qualification for the UK Championship with it.
John Higgins was already assured of his spot in York because the world quantity 14, however Jak Jones and Neil Robertson had been each wanting over the shoulders heading into the week’s motion.
Sturdy performances for runner-up Chris Wakelin and semi-finalist Xiao Guodong duly upset the order, with that pair rising to fifteenth and sixteenth respectively.
That forces World Championship finalist Jones and three-time UK champion Robertson into subsequent week’s qualifiers for the UK Championship.
Who had been the opposite movers?
The largest rankings story from the Worldwide Championship undoubtedly surrounded Wakelin and Xiao’s continued progress on the earth of snooker.
They each secured membership among the many elite high 16 for the primary time of their careers, and they’ll have their targets set on maiden Masters appearances now as properly.
Elsewhere, although, Xu Si’s spectacular run to the final 4 – which included a 147 break and a standout victory over Judd Trump – sees the 26 year-old rise seven locations to a profession excessive of quantity 42.
| Official 2-12 months World Rankings | Nov 12, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,577,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,119,000 |
| 3 | Mark Allen | £901,100 |
| 4 | Mark Selby | £764,700 |
| 5 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £745,500 |
| 6 | Mark Williams | £671,200 |
| 7 | Luca Brecel | £666,800 |
| 8 | Ding Junhui | £645,500 |
| 9 | Shaun Murphy | £641,000 |
| 10 | Gary Wilson | £477,900 |
| 11 | Zhang Anda | £470,750 |
| 12 | Ali Carter | £465,900 |
| 13 | Si Jiahui | £430,400 |
| 14 | John Higgins | £395,750 |
| 15 | Chris Wakelin | £371,800 |
| 16 | Xiao Guodong | £363,000 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Jak Jones | £352,900 |
| 18 | Neil Robertson | £350,550 |
| 19 | Tom Ford | £341,750 |
| 20 | Barry Hawkins | £336,550 |
| 21 | Jack Lisowski | £317,900 |
| 22 | David Gilbert | £293,250 |
| 23 | Robert Milkins | £288,400 |
| 24 | Hossein Vafaei | £287,400 |
| 25 | Stuart Bingham | £265,900 |
1-year snooker rankings
Earlier than the Worldwide Championship, Ding Junhui was languishing down at quantity 93 on the one-year snooker rankings checklist.
With the £175,000 cheque in his again pocket, nevertheless, the 37 year-old has leapfrogged his approach as much as seventh within the standings which might be based mostly on outcomes from this season’s rating occasions.
The highest 32 from this checklist qualify for the World Grand Prix, which is able to happen in Hong Kong for the primary time within the new yr.
Past that, the highest 16 will characteristic on the Gamers Championship and the highest 12 on the Tour Championship, with Ding now in a robust spot to characteristic in all three profitable occasions.
Chris Wakelin is as much as ninth after bagging £75,000 in prize month, the most important payday of the Englishman’s profession to date.
By reaching the final 4, Xu Si has boosted his probabilities of that includes within the World Grand Prix and now boasts a one-year rating of 19.
Matthew Selt at present occupies the thirty second and remaining ticket to Hong Kong, with the likes of Jak Jones and Luca Brecel in peril of lacking out as issues stand.
| 1-12 months Snooker Rankings | Nov 12, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £690,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £357,000 |
| 3 | Mark Williams | £250,200 |
| 4 | Xiao Guodong | £239,000 |
| 5 | Si Jiahui | £197,400 |
| 6 | Neil Robertson | £192,050 |
| 7 | Ding Junhui | £187,000 |
| 8 | Shaun Murphy | £161,000 |
| 9 | Chris Wakelin | £150,800 |
| 10 | Mark Selby | £141,200 |
| 11 | John Higgins | £99,750 |
| 12 | Wu Yize | £95,000 |
| 13 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £94,500 |
| 14 | Pang Junxu | £93,400 |
| 15 | Elliot Slessor | £83,350 |
| 16 | Jimmy Robertson | £82,500 |
| 17 | David Gilbert | £75,750 |
| 18 | Jack Lisowski | £74,400 |
| 19 | Xu Si | £73,250 |
| 20 | Gary Wilson | £71,900 |
| 21 | Zhang Anda | £71,750 |
| 22 | Barry Hawkins | £70,550 |
| 23 | Mark Allen | £66,100 |
| 24 | Stuart Bingham | £65,400 |
| 25 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £59,600 |
| 26 | Ali Carter | £59,400 |
| 27 | Yuan Sijun | £58,000 |
| 28 | Jackson Web page | £56,600 |
| 29 | Hossein Vafaei | £56,400 |
| 30 | Ben Woollaston | £55,000 |
| 31 | Lengthy Zehuang | £51,000 |
| 32 | Matthew Selt | £50,650 |
| — | — | — |
| 33 | Scott Donaldson | £49,950 |
| 35 | Jak Jones | £45,400 |
| 75 | Luca Brecel | £19,800 |
| 104 | Tom Ford | £10,750 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
The 2024 Champion of Champions started on Monday and runs till Sunday in Bolton, however as an invitational occasion it can haven’t any bearing on the snooker rankings.
The subsequent rating occasion is the celebrated UK Championship on the Barbican Centre in York, marking the season’s opener to the Triple Crown sequence.
The venue levels are scheduled for November twenty third till December 1st, however a preliminary competitors from November sixteenth to twenty first will decide the 16 qualifiers.
Extra particulars on upcoming occasions can be printed right here on SnookerHQ.com within the coming weeks.
2024/25 WST calendar
Notice: Dates are provisional and topic to alter
(NR = Non-ranking occasion)
COMPLETED
Championship League Snooker
Champion: Ali Carter
Shanghai Masters (NR)
Champion: Judd Trump
Xi’an Grand Prix
Champion: Kyren Wilson
Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters
Champion: Judd Trump
English Open
Champion: Neil Robertson
British Open
Champion: Mark Selby
Wuhan Open
Champion: Xiao Guodong
Northern Eire Open
Champion: Kyren Wilson
Worldwide Championship
Champion: Ding Junhui
NOVEMBER
eleventh to seventeenth
Champion of Champions (NR)
(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)
18th to twentieth
Riyadh Season Snooker Championship (NR)
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
JANUARY
twelfth to nineteenth
The Masters (NR)
(Alexandra Palace, London)
twenty seventh to February 2nd
German Masters
(Tempodrom, Berlin)
FEBRUARY
tenth to sixteenth
Welsh Open
(Venue Cymru, Llandudno)
twenty fourth to March 2nd
World Open
(TBC, China)
MARCH
4th to ninth
World Grand Prix
(Hong Kong)
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 Might fifth
World Snooker Championship
(Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
Featured photograph credit score: WST
