The newest snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2024 Snooker Shoot Out, the season’s tenth rating event.
Tom Ford emerged with a maiden rating title after successful the 2024 Snooker Shoot Out in dramatic trend on Saturday in his hometown of Leicester.
The 41 year-old, who wanted a blue-ball shoot out to beat Wu Yize within the semi-finals, delighted the Mattioli Enviornment crowd with one other tense overcome Liam Graham within the ultimate.
After a frantic first jiffy of the 10-minute ultimate, younger Scot Graham appeared to seize the ascendancy when he established a 20-point lead.
However the 20 year-old missed a vital purple with about 90 seconds remaining, and Ford duly amassed 23 factors earlier than the buzzer sounded for a 31-28 success.
It gives Ford along with his first rating title after greater than 20 years as knowledgeable on the principle tour, and having misplaced within the three earlier finals that he contested.
Previous to this week’s play it had been a dreadful 2024/25 snooker season for the Englishman, who admitted to having fun with a “bottomless brunch” in the course of the tawdry event.
However the £50,000 champion’s cheque has arrested his slide down the snooker rankings and places him in a promising place to complete the marketing campaign strongly.
Let’s check out a number of the actions within the snooker rankings following the 2024 Snooker Shoot Out.
High 16
Solely 4 gamers from the highest ten on the official world rankings entered the Shoot Out.
Mark Selby loved the very best run by reaching the semi-finals, however the three-time world champion took dwelling solely £8,000 which didn’t make a lot of a dent on his rolling two-year tally.
Certainly, all the prime ten locations keep the identical with Selby in third behind runaway world primary Judd Trump and world champion Kyren Wilson.
Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Allen, Mark Williams, and Luca Brecel full the highest eight forward of Chinese language duo Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda.
There was some motion under that as Gary Wilson’s earnings for successful the 2022 Scottish Open got here off his whole.
The Englishman, who can have an opportunity to win the Residence Nations collection occasion for the third season in a row subsequent week, drops 4 locations to fifteenth.
That bumps Ali Carter, Barry Hawkins, Si Jiahui, and John Higgins up one place respectively within the standings.
Chris Wakelin continues to occupy the sixteenth place.
Who had been the opposite movers?
The Snooker Shoot Out doesn’t boast the best prize fund, so it isn’t essentially a shock that there haven’t been too many actions elsewhere both.
Tom Ford, although, has steadied the ship after seeing his season’s beginning place of quantity 13 drop sharply in current months.
The previous Worldwide Championship runner-up rises two locations and again as much as quantity 20 on the planet, simply behind the likes of Jak Jones, Xiao Guodong, and Neil Robertson.
Liam Graham, in the meantime, received £20,000 for reaching this far in knowledgeable event for the primary time in his fledgling profession.
The previous European under-21 champion jumps 15 spots to quantity 85 on the planet.
Though it stays unlikely that he’ll break into the highest 64 by the tip of the season, he has given himself a greater probability to save lots of his tour card by way of the one-year snooker rankings checklist.
| Official 2-Yr World Rankings | Dec 8, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,801,000 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,143,000 |
| 3 | Mark Selby | £761,700 |
| 4 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £716,000 |
| 5 | Mark Allen | £697,100 |
| 6 | Mark Williams | £663,700 |
| 7 | Luca Brecel | £651,800 |
| 8 | Shaun Murphy | £638,500 |
| 9 | Ding Junhui | £556,000 |
| 10 | Zhang Anda | £487,250 |
| 11 | Ali Carter | £469,900 |
| 12 | Barry Hawkins | £432,050 |
| 13 | Si Jiahui | £426,400 |
| 14 | John Higgins | £406,250 |
| 15 | Gary Wilson | £398,400 |
| 16 | Chris Wakelin | £386,800 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Jak Jones | £360,900 |
| 18 | Xiao Guodong | £346,000 |
| 19 | Neil Robertson | £344,050 |
| 20 | Tom Ford | £341,750 |
| 21 | David Gilbert | £299,250 |
| 22 | Robert Milkins | £288,400 |
| 23 | Jack Lisowski | £285,400 |
| 24 | Hossein Vafaei | £272,900 |
| 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 12 months.
Past that, the highest 16 will function on the Gamers Championship and the highest 12 on the Tour Championship.
With simply two match wins this season earlier than heading to Leicester, Tom Ford was languishing outdoors the highest 100 on this checklist.
However he has launched himself up 80 rungs on the ladder and into the highest 32 in thirtieth place.
Liam Graham strikes up 48 spots to quantity 60, but he’s nonetheless round £30,000 shy of breaking into the highest 32 and securing a ticket to Hong Kong.
Nevertheless, these worthwhile factors within the rankings might show very important by way of his World Snooker Tour survival efforts.
4 gamers from the one-year checklist who haven’t already safeguarded their standing on the professional tour will obtain recent two-year playing cards on the finish of the marketing campaign.
Graham at present lies in fifth place on these standings, lower than £2,000 behind Louis Heathcote in fourth.
| 1-Yr Snooker Rankings | Dec 8, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £940,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £407,000 |
| 3 | Mark Williams | £250,200 |
| 4 | Xiao Guodong | £239,500 |
| 5 | Neil Robertson | £203,050 |
| 6 | Ding Junhui | £202,000 |
| 7 | Si Jiahui | £198,400 |
| 8 | Shaun Murphy | £186,500 |
| 9 | Barry Hawkins | £170,550 |
| 10 | Chris Wakelin | £165,800 |
| 11 | Mark Selby | £149,200 |
| 12 | Wu Yize | £118,000 |
| 13 | Mark Allen | £116,600 |
| 14 | John Higgins | £114,750 |
| 15 | Jack Lisowski | £99,400 |
| 16 | Zhang Anda | £97,750 |
| 17 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £94,500 |
| 18 | Pang Junxu | £93,400 |
| 19 | Elliot Slessor | £92,850 |
| 20 | David Gilbert | £91,750 |
| 21 | Jimmy Robertson | £90,000 |
| 22 | Xu Si | £81,250 |
| 23 | Stuart Bingham | £80,400 |
| 24 | Ali Carter | £75,400 |
| 25 | Gary Wilson | £72,400 |
| 26 | Jackson Web page | £67,100 |
| 27 | Hossein Vafaei | £64,400 |
| 28 | Ben Woollaston | £66,600 |
| 29 | Jak Jones | £61,150 |
| 30 | Tom Ford | £60,750 |
| 31 | Matthew Selt | £60,650 |
| 32 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £60,100 |
| — | — | — |
| 33 | Yuan Sijun | £58,000 |
| 44 | Stephen Maguire | £41,750 |
| 60 | Liam Graham | £31,500 |
| 87 | Luca Brecel | £19,800 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
The 2024 Scottish Open would be the subsequent event on the calendar that can have an effect on the rankings.
Certainly, will probably be the ultimate alternative for gamers to say a rating piece of silverware throughout this calendar 12 months.
This time period’s third Residence Nations collection competitors runs from December ninth to fifteenth on the Meadowbank Sports activities Centre in Edinburgh.
2024/25 WST calendar
Word: 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
Champion of Champions (NR)
Champion: Mark Williams
UK Championship
Champion: Judd Trump
Snooker Shoot Out
Champion: Tom Ford
DECEMBER
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
