Snooker players with more than 20 ranking event titles

Neil Robertson moved to equal-sixth on the all-time ranking event winners’ list with his success at the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters on Saturday.

Robertson beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-9 in a dramatic battle that ebbed one way and then the other in Jeddah before the Australian emerged with the silverware.

Both Robertson and O’Sullivan are in an exclusive club of eight snooker players who have accumulated more than 20 ranking event titles.

Indeed, the same eight competitors would probably rank regularly among the eight best players of all-time for both fans and pundits.

There is no questioning the fact there are more tournaments on the calendar these days compared to 20 years ago and further back, making it a tad easier for the current batch of stars to add to their tallies.

But all eight of these players have not only established themselves as prolific winners but also champions with incredible longevity, with most having achieved their success over the span of several decades.

Here are the top eight snooker players with the most ranking event titles (correct as of August 19th, 2025).

Ronnie O’Sullivan (41)

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s maiden ranking success transpired more than three decades ago at the 1993 UK Championship when he was just 17 years old.

Apart from a couple of self-imposed hiatuses from the sport and some very brief periods of poor form, O’Sullivan has generally remained at the highest echelons ever since.

Among his 41 ranking titles, seven have come at the World Championship and eight at the UK Championship – underlining his ability to get the job done on the game’s biggest stages.

O’Sullivan’s most recent victory was in early 2024 when he beat Judd Trump to lift the World Grand Prix crown, and he’s still challenging for major honours just shy of his 50th birthday as proven in the Kingdom.

Stephen Hendry (36)

Stephen Hendry’s career of ranking triumphs on the main tour spans 18 years, with his first materialising in 1987 and his last in 2005.

But the bulk of that success happened during the 1990s when he dominated the sport and became arguably the sport’s most ruthless winner.

Others may have possessed a touch more natural talent, but few if any can match Hendry’s utmost desire to outlast his opponent and experience that winning feeling.

The Scot counted seven World Championships and five UK Championships among his biggest ranking titles – with all but one of those won during the 1990s.

John Higgins (33)

Like O’Sullivan, John Higgins has been a regular winner on the World Snooker Tour for more than three decades and represents one of the game’s greatest all-round protagonists.

The Wizard of Wishaw, four times a world champion, won the 1994 Grand Prix for his first ranking title and never really looked back.

Such is the merits of his consistency, Higgins spent 29 years as a member of the top 16 before dropping out of the elite bracket of the rankings in September last year.

His response? Reaching the final of the 2024 British Open before winning both the World Open and the prestigious Tour Championship in 2025.

Just shy of his 50th birthday, the latter glory made Higgins the oldest winner of a ranking title since Ray Reardon in 1982.

Judd Trump (30)

If there is one player who looks set to usurp Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record at some point in the future, it’s Judd Trump.

The Englishman has become a relentless winner on the main tour over the last decade or so, and his sheer number of titles prove it.

Not in his favour is a lacking haul in the calendar’s most prestigious events such as the World (1) and UK Championships (2).

But Trump, who few could seriously make arguments against generally being the best player in the world since late-2018, still has time on his side.

Just 36 and with potentially a decade or more at the top yet to come, a target of 50 snooker ranking titles doesn’t seem that far-fetched.

Trump is the 4/1 favourite in the outright betting market for next week’s Wuhan Open with this online casino Canada option providing a sportsbook with plenty of other odds to choose from.

Steve Davis (28)

Steve Davis was the player who initially set the benchmark with his ten-year era of dominance in the 1980s preceding that of Hendry’s in the 1990s.

The Nugget’s supremacy came at a time when the sport was just beginning to properly develop the ranking system with far fewer ranking events to participate in.

That he was still able to stockpile 28 ranking crowns is a testament to just how dominant he was during the period.

Davis won his first ranking title at the 1981 World Snooker Championship – a tournament he would win six times during the ’80s – with his last success transpiring at the 1995 Welsh Open.

Mark Williams (26)

It’s funny to look back to 2017 when many had the best days of Mark Williams well and truly behind him amid a six-year ranking event drought.

Victory in that year’s Northern Ireland Open led to a memorable third World Championship crowning at the Crucible less than a year later.

Despite frequently dismissing his own worth as an all-time great of the sport, Williams has continued to be a frequent presence at the business end of the biggest competitions since.

The Welshman took his total to 26 with victory at the 2024 Tour Championship, a win that came 28 years after his first at the 1996 Welsh Open.

Williams boasts odds of about 16/1 to add to his tally at the upcoming Wuhan Open.

Neil Robertson (26)

As has been said already, this time last year Neil Robertson was seemingly on a permanent slide down the rankings amid a worryingly long drop in form.

The Thunder from Down Under headed to the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters chasing a return to the top 16 having recently failed to qualify for the World Championship.

A year on and Robertson is back to the world number three position and £500,000 richer thanks to what he calls the best win of his career.

The 43 year-old Australian, whose maiden ranking title was in 2006, is also the reigning English Open and the World Grand Prix champion.

Like Trump, Robertson’s underachieving World Championship record ranks him lower on the all-time greats list, but that some don’t even rate him as an all-time great and one of the best there’s ever been is complete lunacy.

Mark Selby (24)

At one point during the 2010s, Mark Selby was the most prolific winner on the main tour and boasted a 17-1 win-loss record in ranking event finals from 2014 to 2020.

Since then, the Englishman has managed a respectable rate of one ranking title per calendar year to keep his tally ticking over.

In the mini race between Trump, Robertson, and Selby, the latter had once been in front but now languishes behind two of his closest rivals from the modern era.

Countering that, though, is a far superior World Championship record that has seen him triumph in Sheffield on four occasions.

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