Snooker rankings: replace after the 2024 Northern Eire Open


The most recent snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2024 Northern Eire Open, the season’s seventh rating match.

Kyren Wilson beat Judd Trump 9-3 on the Waterfront Corridor in Belfast on Sunday to assert an eighth profession rating crown.

The 32 year-old gained the primary seven frames of the title-deciding affair and by no means seemed again, in the end coasting to a first-ever Dwelling Nations title.

Let’s check out how the ends in Northern Eire impacted the assorted snooker rankings lists.

High 16 and Race to the UK Championship

It’s as you had been on the high of the official two-year world rankings, with not a lot motion to talk of following the motion in Belfast.

After amassing the £100,000 champion’s cheque, Wilson narrows the hole to Trump on the high of the standings however stays a good distance off the world primary place.

Two-time former winner Mark Allen upset on residence soil on this event – bowing out within the final 32 – however the Antrim man safely retains maintain of his spot in third.

Mark Selby, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Luca Brecel, Mark Williams, and Shaun Murphy full the highest eight with Chinese language duo Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda in ninth and tenth respectively.

Ali Carter, Gary Wilson, Si Jiahui, John Higgins, and Jak Jones occupy the next 5 spots.

The one change among the many high 16 sees Tom Ford return to the elite bracket forward of Neil Robertson, who drops again out and into seventeenth.

The upcoming Worldwide Championship is the final counting occasion earlier than the 16 seeds are decided for the celebrated UK Championship in York.

Robertson is again in entrance of Ford, who hasn’t certified for the Worldwide Championship, on the provisional standings, however the likes of Xiao Guodong, Barry Hawkins, and Jack Lisowski are inside placing distance of the Australian.

Who had been the opposite movers?

Elliot Slessor and Pang Junxu had been a few shock semi-finalists, and in consequence they’ve each boosted their positions on the rolling rankings.

Slessor rises three spots to hitch the highest 32 for the primary time, whereas Pang strikes up one place to equal his career-high rating of quantity 26.

Martin O’Donnell’s run to the final 16 sees the Londoner advance 5 locations to quantity 48 whereas good weeks for Louis Heathcote and Stan Moody see them soar to 71st and 72nd respectively.

Whereas the latter two are ranked outdoors the world’s high 64, they’re each provisionally in line to achieve contemporary two-year playing cards via the one-year snooker rankings record.


Official 2-Yr World Rankings Oct 28, 2024
1 Judd Trump £1,563,200
2 Kyren Wilson £1,097,000
3 Mark Allen £892,100
4 Mark Selby £750,700
5 Ronnie O’Sullivan £736,500
6 Luca Brecel £666,800
7 Mark Williams £657,200
8 Shaun Murphy £632,000
9 Ding Junhui £470,500
10 Zhang Anda £461,750
11 Ali Carter £456,900
12 Gary Wilson £455,900
13 Si Jiahui £421,400
14 John Higgins £373,750
15 Jak Jones £352,900
16 Tom Ford £341,750
17 Neil Robertson £341,550
18 Xiao Guodong £330,000
19 Barry Hawkins £322,550
20 Jack Lisowski £303,900
21 Chris Wakelin £296,800
22 Robert Milkins £288,400
23 David Gilbert £288,250
24 Hossein Vafaei £278,400
25 Stuart Bingham £260,900
Click on right here for the total up to date two-year list (snooker.org)

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Judd Trump stays in charge of the 2-year and 1-year snooker rankings lists. Photograph credit score: WST

1-year snooker rankings

Like in earlier years, the single-season snooker rankings will decide qualification spots for a number of profitable rating occasions.

The highest 32 from this record 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.

Kyren Wilson is in second place on these standings and in line to qualify for all three of those profitable occasions on the Gamers Sequence.

There have been no modifications to the highest ten following the motion in Northern Eire, however Pang Junxu and Elliot Slessor’s semi-final appearances assist them transfer as much as eleventh and twelfth respectively.

Xu Si is the participant at present hanging onto the thirty second and closing qualifying spot for the World Grand Prix, the Chinese language competitor marginally in entrance of Martin O’Donnell and Oliver Strains.

Luca Brecel, Ding Junhui, and Tom Ford are high-profile gamers who’re experiencing troublesome campaigns and who’re beneath the cut-off level at current.


1-Yr Snooker Rankings Oct 28, 2024
1 Judd Trump £676,200
2 Kyren Wilson £335,000
3 Mark Williams £236,200
4 Xiao Guodong £206,000
5 Si Jiahui £188,400
6 Neil Robertson £183,050
7 Shaun Murphy £152,000
8 Mark Selby £127,200
9 Wu Yize £86,000
10 Ronnie O’Sullivan £85,500
11 Pang Junxu £79,400
12 Elliot Slessor £78,350
13 John Higgins £77,750
14 Jimmy Robertson £77,500
15 Chris Wakelin £75,800
16 David Gilbert £70,750
17 Zhang Anda £62,750
18 Stuart Bingham £60,400
19 Jack Lisowski £60,400
20 Mark Allen £57,100
21 Barry Hawkins £56,550
22 Lengthy Zehuang £51,000
23 Matthew Selt £50,650
24 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh £50,600
25 Ali Carter £50,400
26 Ben Woollaston £50,000
27 Scott Donaldson £49,950
28 Gary Wilson £49,900
29 Yuan Sijun £49,000
30 Hossein Vafaei £47,400
31 Jak Jones £45,400
32 Xu Si £40,250
33 Martin O’Donnell £39,000
70 Luca Brecel £19,800
93 Ding Junhui £12,000
100 Tom Ford £10,750
Click on right here for the total record (WST.television)

The Dwelling Nations sequence bonus

The BetVictor bonus value £150,000 is again this season however with solely the Dwelling Nations occasions counting in the direction of the rankings this time.

The participant who has the perfect outcomes general from the 4 tournaments within the sequence will obtain the good-looking jackpot bonus.

Neil Robertson’s run to the quarter-finals in Northern Eire retains him in pole place for this prize having captured the English Open title in Brentwood earlier this time period.

The Australian has £113,200 in prize cash from the Dwelling Nations sequence up to now, with Kyren Wilson not far behind on £109,000.

The following counting occasion is the Scottish Open in December.

What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?

The following rating occasion on the World Snooker Tour calendar is the Worldwide Championship in Nanjing.

The season’s third rating occasion in China takes locations from November third to tenth, with £175,000 up for grabs for the winner.

It’ll be the final alternative for gamers not already certified to achieve an invitation to the celebrated Champion of Champions invitational in Bolton, whereas computerized seeding for the UK Championship is moreover on the road.

Extra particulars on that occasion might be printed right here on SnookerHQ.com later this week forward of its begin date.

Previous to that, there’s a batch of qualifiers for the Scottish Open scheduled for October twenty eighth to thirtieth at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.


2024/25 WST calendar

Notice: 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

OCTOBER
twenty eighth to thirtieth
Scottish Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Enviornment, Sheffield)

NOVEMBER
third to tenth
Worldwide Championship
(Nanjing, China)

eleventh to seventeenth
Champion of Champions (NR)
(Toughsheet Group Stadium, Bolton)

sixteenth to twenty first
UK Championship qualifiers
(Mattioli Enviornment, Leicester)

twenty third to December 1st
UK Championship
(York Barbican, York)

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

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