The latest snooker rankings update follows the conclusion of the 2025 German Masters, the season’s 12th ranking tournament.
Kyren Wilson emerged from a dramatic title-deciding battle with a 10-9 victory over Barry Hawkins at the Tempodrom in Berlin on Sunday.
A topsy-turvy encounter ebbed one way and then the other, with rarely more than a frame’s difference between the pair of Englishmen.
Wilson took the opening two frames of the contest but ended the first session 5-4 behind – both players trading century breaks to conclude the afternoon bout of play.
The world champion then won the first two frames of the evening session to regain his lead at 6-5, only for Hawkins to restore parity again by winning a tight 12th frame on the black.
They once again exchanged tons as it became more and more evident that the showdown was set to go down to the wire.
There were fewer sizable contributions as the clock ticked down towards midnight, but the large German crowd remained enthralled throughout.
When the scoreline reached 9-9 it was anyone’s title, but Wilson got in and made a crucial break of 59 to help him clinch a ninth career ranking crown.
It was the perfect way to put behind him the disappointment of missing out on Masters glory to Shaun Murphy a couple of weeks ago in London.
Let’s take a look at some of the movements in the snooker rankings following the 2025 German Masters.
Top 16
Through his success in the first ranking event of the new calendar year, Wilson collected the Brandon Parker Trophy and £100,000 in prize money.
That sum sees the world number two narrow the gap to Judd Trump on the official list, but the latter remains out of sight and more than half a million pounds in front as the world number one.
Ronnie O’Sullivan continues to occupy the third spot despite having withdrawn from another ranking tournament on the schedule.
With his points for winning the 2022 World Grand Prix being deducted from his rolling two-year tally, Mark Allen drops four places in the standings.
The Northern Irishman began this campaign as the world number one, but he has already dropped down to eighth in the pecking order.
Mark Selby, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, and Luca Brecel all move above the Pistol within the top eight.
Chinese duo Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda complete the top ten ahead of Hawkins, whose £45,000 runner-up cheque helps him rise to 11th.
Si Jiahui, John Higgins, Gary Wilson, Ali Carter, and Jak Jones are the other players who boast top 16 status as things stand.
Who were the other movers?
Chris Wakelin’s brief stint as a member of the top 16 is over for now after the Englishman dropped three places to 18th – his points for winning the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out subtracted from his total.
After reaching the quarter-finals, Wu Yize has risen to a career-high ranking of number 22, and he is knocking on the door of a spot in the top 16 on the provisional end-of-season standings.
Wu’s fellow Chinese competitor Yuan Sijun made it to the last four in Berlin and has risen six places to number 33 as a result.
Ireland’s Aaron Hill is up to a career-high of number 55 in the world on the back of reaching the quarter-finals of a ranking event for the second time in his career.
Veteran Joe Perry, meanwhile, has officially dropped outside the top 64, and with a provisional end-of-season ranking of 73, his long career as a professional is in jeopardy.
Marco Fu and Anthony Hamilton are also struggling for tour survival, with an increasingly limited number of ranking events left available for them to play this term.
| Official 2-Year World Rankings | Feb 3, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,759,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,225,400 |
| 3 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £704,000 |
| 4 | Mark Selby | £687,500 |
| 5 | Mark Williams | £639,200 |
| 6 | Shaun Murphy | £621,900 |
| 7 | Luca Brecel | £620,400 |
| 8 | Mark Allen | £603,000 |
| 9 | Ding Junhui | £550,000 |
| 10 | Zhang Anda | £494,150 |
| 11 | Barry Hawkins | £470,550 |
| 12 | Si Jiahui | £432,700 |
| 13 | John Higgins | £406,550 |
| 14 | Gary Wilson | £386,400 |
| 15 | Ali Carter | £386,300 |
| 16 | Jak Jones | £370,300 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Xiao Guodong | £364,000 |
| 18 | Chris Wakelin | £339,000 |
| 19 | Neil Robertson | £332,650 |
| 20 | Tom Ford | £319,950 |
| 21 | David Gilbert | £291,250 |
| 22 | Wu Yize | £284,200 |
| 23 | Stuart Bingham | £269,900 |
| 24 | Robert Milkins | £266,300 |
| 25 | Hossein Vafaei | £261,900 |
1-year snooker rankings
The top 32 from the one-year list qualify for the World Grand Prix, which will take place in Hong Kong for the first time in March.
Beyond that, the top 16 will feature at the Players Championship and the top 12 at the Tour Championship.
With a hat-trick of ranking trophies in his cabinet from this season alone, Kyren Wilson is guaranteed to be involved in all three of those lucrative tournaments.
The 32 year-old has accumulated more than £500,000 in ranking-event earnings this season – second only to Judd Trump.
UK Championship finalist Barry Hawkins has also enjoyed a strong campaign and is up to fifth on the one-year list.
There are only two events left before the cut-off point for the World Grand Prix is finalised.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh currently occupies the 32nd and last ticket to Hong Kong, while Luca Brecel remains the highest-profile player who is in danger of not qualifying.
The Belgian Bullet will need to find a deep run at either the upcoming Welsh Open or the following World Open if he’s to force his way into contention.
| 1-Year Snooker Rankings | Feb 3, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £949,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £512,400 |
| 3 | Xiao Guodong | £281,500 |
| 4 | Mark Williams | £250,200 |
| 5 | Barry Hawkins | £224,550 |
| 6 | Neil Robertson | £221,650 |
| 7 | Ding Junhui | £211,000 |
| 8 | Si Jiahui | £209,200 |
| 9 | Shaun Murphy | £200,900 |
| 10 | Chris Wakelin | £179,000 |
| 11 | Wu Yize | £176,200 |
| 12 | Mark Selby | £160,000 |
| 13 | Mark Allen | £143,000 |
| 14 | Lei Peifan | £141,000 |
| 15 | John Higgins | £125,550 |
| 16 | Zhang Anda | £112,150 |
| 17 | Jack Lisowski | £108,400 |
| 18 | Elliot Slessor | £101,850 |
| 19 | Jimmy Robertson | £99,000 |
| 20 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £94,500 |
| 21 | Pang Junxu | £93,400 |
| 22 | David Gilbert | £91,750 |
| 23 | Ali Carter | £89,800 |
| 24 | Stuart Bingham | £89,400 |
| 25 | Xu Si | £88,450 |
| 26 | Tom Ford | £82,950 |
| 27 | Yuan Sijun | £82,600 |
| 28 | Jackson Page | £76,100 |
| 29 | Jak Jones | £75,300 |
| 30 | Gary Wilson | £72,400 |
| 31 | Ben Woollaston | £67,900 |
| 32 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £65,500 |
| — | — | — |
| 34 | Hossein Vafaei | £64,400 |
| 36 | Ryan Day | £57,800 |
| 41 | Stephen Maguire | £50,750 |
| 58 | Luca Brecel | £38,400 |
What is the next snooker event?
The Welsh Open is the next ranking event on the 2024/25 snooker season calendar, the fourth and final Home Nations event returning to Llandudno.
The qualifying rounds take place this week in Barnsley before the main event runs from February 10th to 16th at the Venue Cymru.
The invitational edition of Championship League Snooker also concludes this week with the Winners’ Group on Tuesday and Wednesday in Leicester.
Featured photo credit: WST
