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Snooker rankings: update after the 2024 Northern Ireland Open

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

Judd Trump
Judd Trump remains in control of the 2-year and 1-year snooker rankings lists. Photo credit: WST

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

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

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