The most recent rankings replace comes after the conclusion of the 2024 World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
Kyren Wilson emerged with a maiden Crucible crown after orchestrating an 18-14 success over Jak Jones in Sunday and Monday’s last.
The 32 year-old pockets a whopping cheque value £500,000 for capturing his sixth profession rating title.
Because the final occasion of the 2023/24 snooker season, there was a major impression felt up and down the official two-year rankings record.
There have been modifications on the world primary spot, inside the highest 16, and implications additional down within the race for tour survival.
Let’s check out a few of the key actions.
Mark Allen turns into world primary
As already reported final week, Mark Allen has change into the twelfth world primary in snooker because the world rankings started within the mid-Nineteen Seventies.
The Northern Irishman solely reached the second spherical in Sheffield this yr, however his general consistency throughout the final two phrases has appear him declare prime spot for the primary time in his profession.
Allen has gained 5 rating titles throughout that spell, together with final season’s UK Championship and this marketing campaign’s Gamers Championship.
The Pistol was additionally a winner in November’s Champion of Champions, though as an invitational that didn’t depend in the direction of the rankings.
“Certainly one of my lifetime objectives achieved,” Mark Allen wrote on social media platform X final week.
“Not fairly the best way I’d hoped to get there, however I’ll take it. Six wins, a runner-up, and numerous semis within the final two seasons and that is my reward.”
“(I) must proceed the consistency to try to keep there now.”
High 16 movers
Kyren Wilson had endured a disappointing 2023/24 snooker season previous to Sheffield, a run of detached type that noticed his place within the rankings plummet to quantity 12.
Nevertheless, the Kettering cueist has launched himself right into a career-high slot of quantity three on the earth following his triumph on the Crucible Theatre.
Judd Trump stays in second place having missed the chance to return to the summit with an surprising quarter-final reverse.
Final yr’s world champion Luca Brecel is in fourth, whereas Ronnie O’Sullivan drops to fifth.
The Rocket had loved a two-year stranglehold in first place however was unable to defend the rating factors from his success on the 2022 World Snooker Championship.
Mark Selby, Shaun Murphy, Ding Junhui, Mark Williams, and Ali Carter full the highest ten.
Comfort for Jak Jones after his defeat on the earth last is his newly acquired membership contained in the world’s prime 16.
The Welshman, who was that includes in his first rating occasion last, jumps 30 locations to quantity 14 behind Gary Wilson, Zhang Anda, and Tom Ford.
Barry Hawkins and John Higgins spherical off the highest 16 – the latter nearly extending his unbroken three-decade stretch among the many world’s elite bracket.
| Official 2-12 months World Rankings | Might 7, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Allen | £965,000 |
| 2 | Judd Trump | £911,000 |
| 3 | Kyren Wilson | £851,500 |
| 4 | Luca Brecel | £690,500 |
| 5 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £659,000 |
| 6 | Mark Selby | £648,500 |
| 7 | Shaun Murphy | £498,000 |
| 8 | Ding Junhui | £466,500 |
| 9 | Mark Williams | £457,500 |
| 10 | Ali Carter | £428,000 |
| 11 | Gary Wilson | £421,500 |
| 12 | Zhang Anda | £406,000 |
| 13 | Tom Ford | £340,500 |
| 14 | Jak Jones | £317,500 |
| 15 | Barry Hawkins | £312,500 |
| 16 | John Higgins | £303,500 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Robert Milkins | £298,500 |
| 18 | Ryan Day | £285,500 |
| 19 | Jack Lisowski | £257,000 |
| 20 | Si Jiahui | £249,000 |
| 21 | Hossein Vafaei | £244,500 |
| 22 | David Gilbert | £235,500 |
| 23 | Zhou Yuelong | £232,000 |
| 24 | Chris Wakelin | £230,500 |
| 25 | Stuart Bingham | £220,000 |
Who obtained relegated?
Whereas they might not have certified for the 2024 World Snooker Championship, essential victories for a number of gamers within the preliminary competitors helped to make sure their tour survival.
Mark Davis reached Judgement Day on the English Institute of Sport, outcomes that proved to be important in seeing the previous English Open runner-up returning to the highest 64.
Triumphs on the earth qualifiers for Michael White, Aaron Hill, Sanderson Lam, and David Lilley have been additionally pivotal in seeing them extending their skilled statuses on the primary tour.
Though they ended the season exterior the essential prime 64 cut-off line, Zak Surety, Julien Leclercq, Oliver Strains, and Ben Mertens all secured contemporary two-year playing cards.
That’s as a result of they have been the 4 highest earners from this season who didn’t in any other case safeguard their tour survival, thus gaining a reprieve.
A number of different opponents – together with He Guoqiang, Daniel Wells, Marco Fu, and Louis Heathcote – have solely accomplished one yr of their two-year playing cards so shall be again once more for the upcoming 2024/25 marketing campaign.
The likes of Ashley Hugill, Andy Hicks, Mark Joyce, James Cahill, Liam Highfield, and Lukas Kleckers have all been relegated, in the meantime, and can seemingly be seen at Q College.
Irish veteran Fergal O’Brien additionally completed far down the rankings however is not going to be returning after saying his retirement from skilled snooker.
Martin Gould, in the meantime, ended the time period in 83rd place however will obtain a one-year extension via medical grounds.
Stephen Hendry and Ken Doherty’s newest two-year invitational tour playing cards have concluded, and it hasn’t been introduced but whether or not they are going to be returning for the following marketing campaign.
Elsewhere, Mink Nutcharut’s stint is moreover over, however the Thai is about to bounce again instantly via her standing because the world primary within the girls’s snooker rankings.
Relegated gamers
(last rating in brackets)
Ashley Hugill (67)
Andy Hicks (72)
Mark Joyce (73)
James Cahill (74)
Dylan Emery (75)
Lukas Kleckers (76)
John Astley (77)
Ken Doherty (79)
Liam Highfield (82)
Oliver Brown (84)
Allan Taylor (87)
Rod Lawler (89)
Jenson Kendrick (90)
Adam Duffy (94)
Peng Yison (97)
Sean O’Sullivan (98)
Andy Lee (105)
Andres Petrov (106)
Muhammad Asif (107)
Mark King (109)
Fergal O’Brien (111)
Mohamed Ibrahim (113)
Asjad Iqbal (114)
Ryan Thomerson (116)
Anton Kazakov (117)
Mink Nutcharut (121)
Himanshu Jain (122)
Victor Sarkis (125)
Rebecca Kenna (126)
Stephen Hendry (129)
When is the following snooker occasion?
A lot of the relegated gamers above will seemingly head to Q College in a bid to regain their spots on the World Snooker Tour.
There shall be 4 Q College tournaments in 2024 – two in Leicester and a pair in Bangkok – with the motion happening between Might 20 and June 2.
The 2024/25 snooker season is then scheduled to launch with the rating version of Championship League Snooker on June 10.
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