Judd Trump consolidated his spot as the world number one in the official snooker rankings after his German Masters triumph on Sunday.
The 36 year-old thumped Shaun Murphy 10-4 in the final at the Tempodrom in Berlin to end a 14-month title drought on the main tour.
Let’s take a look at how the opening ranking tournament of the 2026 calendar year impacted the two main lists.
Judd Trump extends his lead as the world number one
Banking £100,000 in prize money has helped Trump pull further clear at the top of the rolling two-year snooker rankings.
By winning the German Masters for the fourth time since 2020, the Englishman is now more than £450,000 ahead of Kyren Wilson in second place.
Murphy stays in seventh spot but has a larger lead over world champion Zhao Xintong, who rises one position to eighth.
The latter, however, has zero points to defend across the rest of this season and almost all of the next, so his consistent rise up the pecking order is likely to continue.
In between, Neil Robertson, Mark Williams John Higgins, and Mark Selby continue to occupy the rungs on the ladder from third to sixth.
Further down, Ronnie O’Sullivan has dropped three places to 11th – mostly as a result of the points accrued from his last ranking title in early-2024 being deducted from his tally.
Mark Allen and Xiao Guodong each move up one to complete the top ten, while Chinese duo Ding Junhui and Wu Yize remain in 12th and 13th respectively.
Barry Hawkins, Chris Wakelin, and Si Jiahui are in the remaining top 16 positions.
Race to the Crucible
With only five ranking events left before the top 16 seeds for the World Championship are determined, the race to qualify automatically for the Crucible is heating up.
While all the players in the provisional World Championship seeding spots remain the same as the current official top 16, the order is slightly different.
Notably, Allen and Ding drop to 15th and 16th respectively and will need some good results in the coming months to avoid the dreaded qualifiers in Sheffield.
Hot on their heels is Stuart Bingham, who has been consistent if unspectacular of late but could launch a late bid for a top 16 berth if he can find a deep run between now and the World Championship.
| Official 2-Year World Rankings | Feb 2, 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,832,550 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,379,700 |
| 3 | Neil Robertson | £1,141,850 |
| 4 | Mark Williams | £972,900 |
| 5 | John Higgins | £840,850 |
| 6 | Mark Selby | £816,350 |
| 7 | Shaun Murphy | £726,800 |
| 8 | Zhao Xintong | £623,550 |
| 9 | Mark Allen | £619,250 |
| 10 | Xiao Guodong | £585,500 |
| 11 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £570,250 |
| 12 | Ding Junhui | £540,850 |
| 13 | Wu Yize | £538,900 |
| 14 | Barry Hawkins | £529,350 |
| 15 | Chris Wakelin | £524,200 |
| 16 | Si Jiahui | £493,900 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Stuart Bingham | £395,500 |
| 18 | Gary Wilson | £384,300 |
| 19 | Jak Jones | £381,800 |
| 20 | Ali Carter | £365,050 |
| 21 | Elliot Slessor | £360,050 |
| 22 | Jack Lisowski | £335,500 |
| 23 | Zhang Anda | £303,950 |
| 24 | David Gilbert | £300,800 |
| 25 | Stephen Maguire | £285,550 |
| 26 | Joe O’Connor | £274,800 |
| 27 | Pang Junxu | £271,000 |
| 28 | Tom Ford | £267,050 |
| 29 | Lei Peifan | £256,800 |
| 30 | Zhou Yuelong | £247,550 |
| 31 | Yuan Sijun | £242,400 |
| 32 | Hossein Vafaei | £229,200 |
Race to the Players Championship reaches its final hurdle
The German Masters was the penultimate event in the race to secure spots at the 2026 Players Championship in Telford.
Only the top 16 from the one-year rankings list will be invited to take part, and there are several high-profile names who are set to miss out as things stand.
This week’s World Grand Prix – commencing on Tuesday in Hong Kong – will be the final opportunity to acquire enough ranking points to break into the top 16 in these standings.
Shaun Murphy and Judd Trump are already among the marquee names who are guaranteed a spot in the tournament.
But the likes of world champion Zhao Xintong and reigning Players Championship winner Kyren Wilson are a couple of notable competitors who are provisionally below the cut-off line.
A run to the semi-finals in Hong Kong for either might prove to be enough depending on how results go elsewhere, but it’s fair to say that the pressure is on.
Ding Junhui and Si Jiahui are two other members of the official top 16 from the two-year list who are struggling to make the cut, while German Masters semi-finalist Ali Carter is in 21st.
| 1-Year Snooker Rankings | Feb 2, 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neil Robertson | £610,300 |
| 2 | Mark Selby | £384,350 |
| 3 | Shaun Murphy | £354,900 |
| 4 | Mark Williams | £299,800 |
| 5 | Judd Trump | £294,350 |
| 6 | Wu Yize | £251,300 |
| 7 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £236,750 |
| 8 | Chris Wakelin | £219,800 |
| 9 | Mark Allen | £192,350 |
| 10 | Xiao Guodong | £178,000 |
| 11 | Elliot Slessor | £175,300 |
| 12 | Jack Lisowski | £155,400 |
| 13 | Barry Hawkins | £153,800 |
| 14 | John Higgins | £153,600 |
| 15 | Gary Wilson | £146,900 |
| 16 | Zhou Yuelong | £135,000 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Stephen Maguire | £122,800 |
| 18 | Kyren Wilson | £115,900 |
| 19 | Si Jiahui | £115,200 |
| 20 | Zhao Xintong | £113,550 |
| 21 | Ali Carter | £111,250 |
| 22 | Stuart Bingham | £111,100 |
| 23 | Chang Bingyu | £107,700 |
| 24 | Ding Junhui | £104,850 |
| 25 | Yuan Sijun | £89,300 |
| 26 | Anthony McGill | £88,000 |
| 27 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £87,100 |
| 28 | Zhang Anda | £85,400 |
| 29 | Joe O’Connor | £83,050 |
| 30 | Jak Jones | £79,000 |
| 31 | Pang Junxu | £77,100 |
| 32 | Aaron Hill | £70,700 |
When is the next snooker event?
We don’t have long to wait for the next ranking event on the calendar for the ongoing 2025/26 snooker season.
The World Grand Prix takes place this week, running from February 3 to 8 at the Kai Tak Arena in Hong Kong.
The top 32 players from the one-year rankings list will be in action, each hoping to get their hands on the lucrative £180,000 top prize.
More information on that event will be published here on SnookerHQ.com throughout the week.
Featured photo credit: WST
If there were a few more open ranking tournaments it would perhaps intensify the interest over who will hold their top 16 status come the cut off for the Crucible: it looks like the incumbents are mainly locked in already, even most of the “stragglers”