The newest snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2025 German Masters, the season’s twelfth rating event.
Kyren Wilson emerged from a dramatic title-deciding battle with a 10-9 victory over Barry Hawkins on the Tempodrom in Berlin on Sunday.
A topsy-turvy encounter ebbed a method after which the opposite, with hardly ever greater than a body’s distinction between the pair of Englishmen.
Wilson took the opening two frames of the competition however ended the primary session 5-4 behind – each gamers buying and selling century breaks to conclude the afternoon bout of play.
The world champion then received the primary two frames of the night session to regain his lead at 6-5, just for Hawkins to revive parity once more by profitable a good twelfth body on the black.
They as soon as once more exchanged tons because it turned increasingly more evident that the showdown was set to go all the way down to the wire.
There have been fewer sizable contributions because the clock ticked down in direction of midnight, however the giant German crowd remained enthralled all through.
When the scoreline reached 9-9 it was anybody’s title, however Wilson received in and made an important break of 59 to assist him clinch a ninth profession rating crown.
It was the right solution to put behind him the frustration of lacking out on Masters glory to Shaun Murphy a few weeks in the past in London.
Let’s check out a few of the actions within the snooker rankings following the 2025 German Masters.
Prime 16
By way of his success within the first rating occasion of the brand new calendar yr, Wilson collected the Brandon Parker Trophy and £100,000 in prize cash.
That sum sees the world quantity two slender the hole to Judd Trump on the official listing, however the latter stays out of sight and greater than half 1,000,000 kilos in entrance because the world primary.
Ronnie O’Sullivan continues to occupy the third spot regardless of having withdrawn from one other rating event on the schedule.
Together with his factors for profitable the 2022 World Grand Prix being deducted from his rolling two-year tally, Mark Allen drops 4 locations within the standings.
The Northern Irishman started this marketing campaign because the world primary, however he has already dropped all the way down to eighth within the pecking order.
Mark Selby, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, and Luca Brecel all transfer above the Pistol inside the high eight.
Chinese language duo Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda full the highest ten forward of Hawkins, whose £45,000 runner-up cheque helps him rise to eleventh.
Si Jiahui, John Higgins, Gary Wilson, Ali Carter, and Jak Jones are the opposite gamers who boast high 16 standing as issues stand.
Who have been the opposite movers?
Chris Wakelin’s transient stint as a member of the highest 16 is over for now after the Englishman dropped three locations to 18th – his factors for profitable the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out subtracted from his whole.
After reaching the quarter-finals, Wu Yize has risen to a career-high rating of quantity 22, and he’s knocking on the door of a spot within the high 16 on the provisional end-of-season standings.
Wu’s fellow Chinese language competitor Yuan Sijun made it to the final 4 in Berlin and has risen six locations to quantity 33 because of this.
Eire’s Aaron Hill is as much as a career-high of quantity 55 on the planet on the again of reaching the quarter-finals of a rating occasion for the second time in his profession.
Veteran Joe Perry, in the meantime, has formally dropped outdoors the highest 64, and with a provisional end-of-season rating of 73, his lengthy profession as an expert is in jeopardy.
Marco Fu and Anthony Hamilton are additionally struggling for tour survival, with an more and more restricted variety of rating occasions left out there for them to play this time period.
| Official 2-Yr World Rankings | Feb 3, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,759,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,225,400 |
| 3 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £704,000 |
| 4 | Mark Selby | £687,500 |
| 5 | Mark Williams | £639,200 |
| 6 | Shaun Murphy | £621,900 |
| 7 | Luca Brecel | £620,400 |
| 8 | Mark Allen | £603,000 |
| 9 | Ding Junhui | £550,000 |
| 10 | Zhang Anda | £494,150 |
| 11 | Barry Hawkins | £470,550 |
| 12 | Si Jiahui | £432,700 |
| 13 | John Higgins | £406,550 |
| 14 | Gary Wilson | £386,400 |
| 15 | Ali Carter | £386,300 |
| 16 | Jak Jones | £370,300 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Xiao Guodong | £364,000 |
| 18 | Chris Wakelin | £339,000 |
| 19 | Neil Robertson | £332,650 |
| 20 | Tom Ford | £319,950 |
| 21 | David Gilbert | £291,250 |
| 22 | Wu Yize | £284,200 |
| 23 | Stuart Bingham | £269,900 |
| 24 | Robert Milkins | £266,300 |
| 25 | Hossein Vafaei | £261,900 |
1-year snooker rankings
The highest 32 from the one-year listing qualify for the World Grand Prix, which is able to happen in Hong Kong for the primary time in March.
Past that, the highest 16 will characteristic on the Gamers Championship and the highest 12 on the Tour Championship.
With a hat-trick of rating trophies in his cupboard from this season alone, Kyren Wilson is assured to be concerned in all three of these profitable tournaments.
The 32 year-old has accrued greater than £500,000 in ranking-event earnings this season – second solely to Judd Trump.
UK Championship finalist Barry Hawkins has additionally loved a robust marketing campaign and is as much as fifth on the one-year listing.
There are solely two occasions left earlier than the cut-off level for the World Grand Prix is finalised.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh presently occupies the thirty second and final ticket to Hong Kong, whereas Luca Brecel stays the highest-profile participant who’s at risk of not qualifying.
The Belgian Bullet might want to discover a deep run at both the upcoming Welsh Open or the next World Open if he’s to pressure his approach into rivalry.
| 1-Yr Snooker Rankings | Feb 3, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £949,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £512,400 |
| 3 | Xiao Guodong | £281,500 |
| 4 | Mark Williams | £250,200 |
| 5 | Barry Hawkins | £224,550 |
| 6 | Neil Robertson | £221,650 |
| 7 | Ding Junhui | £211,000 |
| 8 | Si Jiahui | £209,200 |
| 9 | Shaun Murphy | £200,900 |
| 10 | Chris Wakelin | £179,000 |
| 11 | Wu Yize | £176,200 |
| 12 | Mark Selby | £160,000 |
| 13 | Mark Allen | £143,000 |
| 14 | Lei Peifan | £141,000 |
| 15 | John Higgins | £125,550 |
| 16 | Zhang Anda | £112,150 |
| 17 | Jack Lisowski | £108,400 |
| 18 | Elliot Slessor | £101,850 |
| 19 | Jimmy Robertson | £99,000 |
| 20 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £94,500 |
| 21 | Pang Junxu | £93,400 |
| 22 | David Gilbert | £91,750 |
| 23 | Ali Carter | £89,800 |
| 24 | Stuart Bingham | £89,400 |
| 25 | Xu Si | £88,450 |
| 26 | Tom Ford | £82,950 |
| 27 | Yuan Sijun | £82,600 |
| 28 | Jackson Web page | £76,100 |
| 29 | Jak Jones | £75,300 |
| 30 | Gary Wilson | £72,400 |
| 31 | Ben Woollaston | £67,900 |
| 32 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £65,500 |
| — | — | — |
| 34 | Hossein Vafaei | £64,400 |
| 36 | Ryan Day | £57,800 |
| 41 | Stephen Maguire | £50,750 |
| 58 | Luca Brecel | £38,400 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
The Welsh Open is the subsequent rating occasion on the 2024/25 snooker season calendar, the fourth and last House Nations occasion returning to Llandudno.
The qualifying rounds happen this week in Barnsley earlier than the primary occasion runs from February tenth to sixteenth on the Venue Cymru.
The invitational version of Championship League Snooker additionally concludes this week with the Winners’ Group on Tuesday and Wednesday in Leicester.
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