The most recent snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2024 UK Championship, the season’s ninth rating match.
Judd Trump beat Barry Hawkins 10-8 in what proved to be an entertaining finale to the marketing campaign’s opening Triple Crown match on the Barbican Centre.
It marked the primary UK glory for Trump since 2011, a victory that concurrently took his profession tally of rating titles to a formidable 30.
Let’s check out how the outcomes on the UK Championship impacted the assorted snooker rankings lists.
High 16 and the Race to the Masters
In recent times, the UK Championship has change into the cut-off level on the calendar for securing an invite to the distinguished Masters invitational.
One of many subplots, due to this fact, inevitably surrounds which gamers can transfer into the highest 16 and assure their involvement on the Alexandra Palace in January.
Barry Hawkins started the week in York exterior the elite bracket, however by reaching the ultimate he comfortably regained his standing among the many high 16.
The Hawk, who grew to become the primary participant to look in all three Triple Crown finals with out having ever landed a bit of silverware from the collection, rises to thirteenth within the standings forward of Si Jiahui, John Higgins, and Chris Wakelin.
Among the many high-profile gamers who aren’t within the Masters draw are former champion Neil Robertson and World Championship runner-up Jak Jones.
Xiao Guodong, who had been in sixteenth spot earlier than play bought underneath method on the Barbican Centre, was punished for exiting within the first spherical and dropped to nineteenth.
Judd Trump, in fact, prolonged his lead because the world primary and isn’t that far off reaching an unimaginable £2 million two-year milestone.
Kyren Wilson stays in second forward of Mark Selby and Ronnie O’Sullivan, with 2022 UK champion Mark Allen dropping to fifth.
Mark Williams and Luca Brecel proceed to occupy the sixth and seventh spots respectively with Shaun Murphy and Ding Junhui swapping locations in eighth and ninth.
Zhang Anda completes the highest ten who will every be invited to the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship in Saudi Arabia later this month, whereas world numbers 11 and 12 Gary Wilson and Ali Carter simply miss out on qualification for that profitable invitational.
Who had been the opposite movers?
Three gamers certified for the UK Championship from the very first preliminary spherical, boosting their positions within the snooker rankings.
Michael Holt, competing within the first yr of his two-year card, was the most important beneficiary – advancing 17 locations to quantity 81 – whereas He Guoqiang moved up six spots to quantity 54.
Sam Craigie, who reached the UK Championship quarter-finals in 2022, hasn’t performed in any respect this season and has now slipped exterior the world’s high 64.
| Official 2-12 months World Rankings | Dec 3, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,812,000 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,154,000 |
| 3 | Mark Selby | £764,700 |
| 4 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £720,500 |
| 5 | Mark Allen | £701,100 |
| 6 | Mark Williams | £671,200 |
| 7 | Luca Brecel | £651,800 |
| 8 | Shaun Murphy | £641,000 |
| 9 | Ding Junhui | £560,500 |
| 10 | Zhang Anda | £490,750 |
| 11 | Gary Wilson | £477,900 |
| 12 | Ali Carter | £473,400 |
| 13 | Barry Hawkins | £436,550 |
| 14 | Si Jiahui | £425,400 |
| 15 | John Higgins | £410,750 |
| 16 | Chris Wakelin | £386,800 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Neil Robertson | £360,550 |
| 18 | Jak Jones | £360,400 |
| 19 | Xiao Guodong | £353,000 |
| 20 | David Gilbert | £298,250 |
| 21 | Jack Lisowski | £292,900 |
| 22 | Tom Ford | £291,750 |
| 23 | Robert Milkins | £290,900 |
| 24 | Hossein Vafaei | £279,900 |
| 25 | Stuart Bingham | £265,900 |
1-year snooker rankings
The highest 32 from the one-year checklist qualify for the World Grand Prix, which can 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 an astonishing haul of £940,200 in earnings from this time period already, Judd Trump will clearly characteristic in all three of these profitable occasions.
Barry Hawkins can also be well-positioned to go all the best way to the Tour Championship, with the £100,000 runner-up cheque from York serving to him rise to ninth in these standings.
A poor run of type for Ronnie O’Sullivan has seen him drop to seventeenth, placing his participation on the Gamers and Tour Championships in jeopardy.
Yuan Sijun at present holds onto the thirty second and last ticket to the World Grand Prix.
The one present member of the highest 16 who is ready to overlook out on all three occasions because it stands is Luca Brecel.
The Belgian Bullet misplaced within the first spherical of one other rating occasion and languishes method down in eighty fifth place on the one-year snooker rankings checklist.
| 1-12 months Snooker Rankings | Dec 3, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £940,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £407,000 |
| 3 | Mark Williams | £250,200 |
| 4 | Xiao Guodong | £239,000 |
| 5 | Neil Robertson | £202,050 |
| 6 | Ding Junhui | £202,000 |
| 7 | Si Jiahui | £197,400 |
| 8 | Shaun Murphy | £186,000 |
| 9 | Barry Hawkins | £170,550 |
| 10 | Chris Wakelin | £165,800 |
| 11 | Mark Selby | £141,200 |
| 12 | Mark Allen | £116,100 |
| 13 | John Higgins | £114,750 |
| 14 | Wu Yize | £110,000 |
| 15 | Jack Lisowski | £99,400 |
| 16 | Zhang Anda | £96,750 |
| 17 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £94,500 |
| 18 | Pang Junxu | £93,400 |
| 19 | Elliot Slessor | £90,850 |
| 20 | David Gilbert | £90,750 |
| 21 | Jimmy Robertson | £90,000 |
| 22 | Xu Si | £80,750 |
| 23 | Stuart Bingham | £80,400 |
| 24 | Ali Carter | £74,400 |
| 25 | Gary Wilson | £71,900 |
| 26 | Jackson Web page | £66,600 |
| 27 | Hossein Vafaei | £63,900 |
| 28 | Ben Woollaston | £66,600 |
| 29 | Matthew Selt | £60,650 |
| 30 | Jak Jones | £60,400 |
| 31 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £59,600 |
| 32 | Yuan Sijun | £58,000 |
| — | — | — |
| 33 | Lengthy Zehuang | £56,000 |
| 40 | Michael Holt | £42,600 |
| 42 | Stephen Maguire | £41,750 |
| 85 | Luca Brecel | £19,800 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
The 2024 Snooker Shoot Out would be the subsequent match on the calendar that can have an effect on the rankings.
The controversial lightning-paced competitors begins on Wednesday and runs till Saturday, December seventh in Leicester.
Extra particulars on the Snooker Shoot Out will probably be revealed right here on SnookerHQ.com within the coming days.
N2024/25 WST calendar
Word: Dates are provisional and topic to vary
(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
Champion of Champions (NR)
Champion: Mark Williams
UK Championship
Champion: Judd Trump
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 Could fifth
World Snooker Championship
(Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
Featured photograph credit score: WST
