The newest snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2024 Wuhan Open, the season’s sixth rating match.
Xiao Guodong beat Si Jiahui 10-7 on the Optics Valley Conference and Exhibition Centre on Saturday to say a maiden rating title after 17 years as knowledgeable.
The 35 year-old produced a string of high-quality performances all through the week, counting world champion Kyren Wilson and Triple Crown winner Shaun Murphy amongst his earlier conquests.
Let’s check out how the ends in Wuhan impacted the snooker rankings.
Prime 16
There wasn’t a lot change on this part of the official two-year checklist, with Judd Trump remaining the runaway world primary.
The Englishman is greater than half 1,000,000 kilos out in entrance with Wilson his nearest challenger and Mark Allen, who withdrew from final week’s occasion, in third.
Mark Selby and Ronnie O’Sullivan had been additionally absent from Wuhan however stay as they had been in fourth and fifth respectively.
Luca Brecel, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, and Ding Junhui are subsequent within the order forward of Zhang Anda, who rises one spot to tenth.
Ali Carter strikes forward of Gary Wilson into eleventh place whereas Si Jiahui consolidated his place at quantity 13 together with his glorious run to the ultimate.
John Higgins, Jak Jones, and Neil Robertson full the highest 16 forward of Tom Ford, whose disastrous opening to the 2024/25 snooker season has seen him drop out of the elite bracket.
Who had been the opposite movers?
The obvious winner within the snooker rankings was after all Xiao Guodong, who pocketed a mammoth prime prize value £140,000 for his great triumph.
That takes the Chinese language competitor to 18th on the official two-year checklist, representing the very best rating of his profession up to now.
With the UK Championship arising quickly and the Masters not lengthy after, Xiao shall be hoping to problem for prime 16 standing and the advantages that include it.
There weren’t too many different dramatic shifts within the rankings within the prime 64, though semi-finalist Lengthy Zehuang rises to quantity 66 after reaching the semi-finals of a rating occasion for the primary time.
| Official 2-Yr World Rankings | Oct 13, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,521,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,001,500 |
| 3 | Mark Allen | £966,700 |
| 4 | Mark Selby | £761,700 |
| 5 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £739,500 |
| 6 | Luca Brecel | £668,500 |
| 7 | Mark Williams | £655,000 |
| 8 | Shaun Murphy | £623,300 |
| 9 | Ding Junhui | £473,500 |
| 10 | Zhang Anda | £461,750 |
| 11 | Ali Carter | £456,900 |
| 12 | Gary Wilson | £455,900 |
| 13 | Si Jiahui | £424,400 |
| 14 | John Higgins | £372,850 |
| 15 | Jak Jones | £347,500 |
| 16 | Neil Robertson | £345,850 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Tom Ford | £343,850 |
| 18 | Xiao Guodong | £337,500 |
| 19 | Barry Hawkins | £318,050 |
| 20 | Jack Lisowski | £303,900 |
| 21 | David Gilbert | £299,250 |
| 22 | Chris Wakelin | £291,400 |
| 23 | Robert Milkins | £290,500 |
| 24 | Hossein Vafaei | £282,900 |
| 25 | Stuart Bingham | £254,900 |
1-year snooker rankings
Like in earlier years, the single-season snooker rankings will decide qualification spots for a number of profitable rating occasions.
Final season, the highest 32 from this checklist certified for the World Grand Prix, the highest 16 for the Gamers Championship, and the highest 12 for the Tour Championship.
Xiao Guodong was already having a good season earlier than Wuhan however strikes eight spots increased on the one-year checklist after his breakthrough week.
That takes him into fourth place behind Judd Trump, Kyren Wilson, and Mark Williams, and simply in entrance of the participant he beat in Saturday’s ultimate, Si Jiahui.
Lengthy Zehuang’s run to the final 4, the place he squandered a 4-1 lead in an eventual 6-4 defeat to Xiao, has seen him leapfrog his approach into the highest 32 of those standings.
Among the many high-profile gamers struggling on this checklist up to now this season are Luca Brecel and Ding Junhui, who’re approach down in 79th and 88th respectively.
| 1-Yr Snooker Rankings | Oct 13, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £631,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £235,000 |
| 3 | Mark Williams | £223,000 |
| 4 | Xiao Guodong | £206,000 |
| 5 | Si Jiahui | £188,400 |
| 6 | Neil Robertson | £169,850 |
| 7 | Shaun Murphy | £138,800 |
| 8 | Mark Selby | £127,200 |
| 9 | Wu Yize | £86,000 |
| 10 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £85,500 |
| 11 | John Higgins | £72,350 |
| 12 | Jimmy Robertson | £72,100 |
| 13 | David Gilbert | £70,750 |
| 14 | Chris Wakelin | £70,400 |
| 15 | Zhang Anda | £62,750 |
| 16 | Jack Lisowski | £60,400 |
| 17 | Pang Junxu | £58,400 |
| 18 | Elliot Slessor | £57,350 |
| 19 | Mark Allen | £51,700 |
| 20 | Stuart Bingham | £51,400 |
| 21 | Ali Carter | £50,400 |
| 22 | Ben Woollaston | £50,000 |
| 23 | Gary Wilson | £49,900 |
| 24 | Barry Hawkins | £47550 |
| 25 | Hossein Vafaei | £47,400 |
| 26 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £47,000 |
| 27 | Scott Donaldson | £46,350 |
| 28 | Lengthy Zehuang | £45,600 |
| 29 | Yuan Sijun | £45,400 |
| 30 | Matthew Selt | £45,250 |
| 31 | Xu Si | £40,250 |
| 32 | Jak Jones | £40,000 |
| — | — | — |
| 64 | Zhou Yuelong | £19,350 |
| 79 | Luca Brecel | £14,400 |
| 88 | Ding Junhui | £12,000 |
| 113 | Tom Ford | £5,350 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
The subsequent rating occasion on the World Snooker Tour calendar is the Northern Eire Open.
The second Residence Nations collection match of the season takes locations on the Waterfront Corridor in Belfast from October 20-27.
Extra particulars on that occasion shall be revealed right here on SnookerHQ.com later this week forward of its begin date.
2024/25 WST calendar
Observe: Dates are provisional and topic to vary
COMPLETED
Championship League Snooker
Champion: Ali Carter
Shanghai Masters
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
OCTOBER
twentieth to twenty seventh
Northern Eire Open
(Waterfront Corridor, Belfast)
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Scottish Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Area, Sheffield)
NOVEMBER
third to tenth
Worldwide Championship
(Nanjing, China)
eleventh to seventeenth
Champion of Champions
(Toughsheet Neighborhood Stadium, Bolton)
sixteenth to twenty first
UK Championship qualifiers
(Mattioli Area, Leicester)
twenty third to December 1st
UK Championship
(York Barbican, York)
DECEMBER
4th to seventh
Shoot Out
(Mattioli Area, Leicester)
ninth to fifteenth
Scottish Open
(Meadowbank Sports activities Centre, Edinburgh)
sixteenth to twenty second
– German Masters qualifiers
– World Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Area, Sheffield)
JANUARY
twelfth to nineteenth
The Masters
(Alexandra Palace, London)
twenty seventh to February 2nd
German Masters
(Tempodrom, Berlin)
FEBRUARY
tenth to sixteenth
Welsh Open
(Venue Cymru, Llandudno)
MARCH
TBC
World Grand Prix
(TBC)
third to ninth
World Open
(Yushan, China)
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 picture credit score: WST