The latest snooker rankings update follows the conclusion of the 2024 Northern Ireland Open, the season’s seventh ranking tournament.
Kyren Wilson beat Judd Trump 9-3 at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on Sunday to claim an eighth career ranking crown.
The 32 year-old won the first seven frames of the title-deciding affair and never looked back, ultimately coasting to a first-ever Home Nations title.
Let’s take a look at how the results in Northern Ireland impacted the various snooker rankings lists.
Top 16 and Race to the UK Championship
It’s as you were at the top of the official two-year world rankings, with not much movement to speak of following the action in Belfast.
After collecting the £100,000 champion’s cheque, Wilson narrows the gap to Trump at the top of the standings but remains a long way off the world number one position.
Two-time former winner Mark Allen disappointed on home soil on this occasion – bowing out in the last 32 – but the Antrim man safely keeps hold of his spot in third.
Mark Selby, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Luca Brecel, Mark Williams, and Shaun Murphy complete the top eight with Chinese duo Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda in ninth and tenth respectively.
Ali Carter, Gary Wilson, Si Jiahui, John Higgins, and Jak Jones occupy the following five spots.
The only change among the top 16 sees Tom Ford return to the elite bracket ahead of Neil Robertson, who drops back out and into 17th.
The upcoming International Championship is the last counting event before the 16 seeds are determined for the prestigious UK Championship in York.
Robertson is back in front of Ford, who hasn’t qualified for the International Championship, on the provisional standings, but the likes of Xiao Guodong, Barry Hawkins, and Jack Lisowski are within striking distance of the Australian.
Who were the other movers?
Elliot Slessor and Pang Junxu were a couple of surprise semi-finalists, and as a result they have both boosted their positions on the rolling rankings.
Slessor rises three spots to join the top 32 for the first time, while Pang moves up one position to equal his career-high ranking of number 26.
Martin O’Donnell’s run to the last 16 sees the Londoner advance five places to number 48 while good weeks for Louis Heathcote and Stan Moody see them jump to 71st and 72nd respectively.
While the latter two are ranked outside the world’s top 64, they are both provisionally in line to gain fresh two-year cards through the one-year snooker rankings list.
| Official 2-Year 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 |
1-year snooker rankings
Like in previous years, the single-season snooker rankings will determine qualification spots for several lucrative ranking events.
The top 32 from this list qualify for the World Grand Prix, which will take place in Hong Kong for the first time in the new year.
Beyond that, the top 16 will feature at the Players Championship and the top 12 at the Tour Championship.
Kyren Wilson is in second place on these standings and in line to qualify for all three of these lucrative events on the Players Series.
There were no changes to the top ten following the action in Northern Ireland, but Pang Junxu and Elliot Slessor’s semi-final appearances help them move up to 11th and 12th respectively.
Xu Si is the player currently hanging onto the 32nd and final qualifying spot for the World Grand Prix, the Chinese competitor marginally in front of Martin O’Donnell and Oliver Lines.
Luca Brecel, Ding Junhui, and Tom Ford are high-profile players who are experiencing difficult campaigns and who are below the cut-off point at present.
| 1-Year 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 | Long 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 |
The Home Nations series bonus
The BetVictor bonus worth £150,000 is back this season but with only the Home Nations events counting towards the rankings this time.
The player who has the best results overall from the four tournaments in the series will receive the handsome jackpot bonus.
Neil Robertson’s run to the quarter-finals in Northern Ireland keeps him in pole position for this prize having captured the English Open title in Brentwood earlier this term.
The Australian has £113,200 in prize money from the Home Nations series so far, with Kyren Wilson not far behind on £109,000.
The next counting event is the Scottish Open in December.
What is the next snooker event?
The next ranking event on the World Snooker Tour calendar is the International Championship in Nanjing.
The season’s third ranking event in China takes places from November 3rd to 10th, with £175,000 up for grabs for the winner.
It’ll be the last opportunity for players not already qualified to gain an invite to the prestigious Champion of Champions invitational in Bolton, while automatic seeding for the UK Championship is additionally on the line.
More details on that event will be published here on SnookerHQ.com later this week ahead of its start date.
Prior to that, there is a batch of qualifiers for the Scottish Open scheduled for October 28th to 30th at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.
2024/25 WST calendar
Note: Dates are provisional and subject to change
(NR = Non-ranking event)
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 Ireland Open
Champion: Kyren Wilson
OCTOBER
28th to 30th
Scottish Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Arena, Sheffield)
NOVEMBER
3rd to 10th
International Championship
(Nanjing, China)
11th to 17th
Champion of Champions (NR)
(Toughsheet Community Stadium, Bolton)
16th to 21st
UK Championship qualifiers
(Mattioli Arena, Leicester)
23rd to December 1st
UK Championship
(York Barbican, York)
DECEMBER
4th to 7th
Shoot Out
(Mattioli Arena, Leicester)
9th to 15th
Scottish Open
(Meadowbank Sports Centre, Edinburgh)
16th to 22nd
– German Masters qualifiers
– World Open qualifiers
(Canon Medical Arena, Sheffield)
18th to 20th
Riyadh Season Snooker Championship (NR)
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
JANUARY
12th to 19th
The Masters (NR)
(Alexandra Palace, London)
27th to February 2nd
German Masters
(Tempodrom, Berlin)
FEBRUARY
10th to 16th
Welsh Open
(Venue Cymru, Llandudno)
24th to March 2nd
World Open
(TBC, China)
MARCH
4th to 9th
World Grand Prix
(Hong Kong)
17th to 23rd
Players Championship
(Telford, England)
31st to April 6th
Tour Championship
(Manchester Central, Manchester)
APRIL
7th to 16th
World Championship qualifiers
(EIS, Sheffield)
19th to May 5th
World Snooker Championship
(Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
Featured photo credit: WST
