Jamie Clarke has moved forward within the race for a spot on the World Snooker Tour (WST) after lifting a second successive WPBSA Q Tour Europe title in Sofia, Bulgaria final weekend.
As in earlier seasons, the highest ranked participant following the conclusion of the seventh and ultimate occasion will earn an computerized two-year WST place for the 2026/27 and 2027/28 campaigns, with a minimal of 16 additional gamers to qualify for the season-end World Playoffs to contest three additional tour playing cards.
Winners of every Q Tour Europe occasion are assured a spot within the World Play-Offs which means that Hammad Miah, Peter Strains, Simon Blackwell and Jamie Clarke have already secured their locations.
CLARKE MOVES AHEAD
Wales’ Jamie Clarke has risen to the summit of the Q Tour Europe rating checklist after defeating Stuart Carrington within the occasion 5 ultimate on the Nationwide Snooker Academy of Bulgaria final weekend.
The success noticed Clarke, who was relegated from the World Snooker Tour on the finish of final season, win his second consecutive Q Tour Europe title following victory on the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds final month.
Clarke has overtaken earlier frontrunner Peter Strains, who fell on the quarter-finals stage in Bulgaria, and now holds a 4,380 level benefit with two occasions of the common season remaining.
Occasion two champion Strains leads the chasing pack, intently adopted by Hammad Miah and final weekend’s runner-up Carrington who may every climb into prime spot by lifting the occasion six title ought to Clarke fall in his opening match.
THE PLAY-OFF RACE
With a most of 20,000 factors on supply between now and the top of the season, the chance stays for all gamers to say a spot on the Q Tour World Play-Offs in Spain subsequent March whereas anyone ranked all the way down to twentieth may nonetheless mathematically declare prime spot in the long run of season rankings.
Former skilled Peter Devlin presently sits in seventeenth place with a complete of 9,400 factors – simply 65 away from compatriot Ashley Carty in 18th.
The WPBSA Q Tour Europe collection continues with Occasion Six on the Delta Moon, Mons, Belgium on 12-15 February. Enter now through WPBSA SnookerScores.
