The newest snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2025 World Snooker Championship, the season’s 18th and remaining rating event.
Zhao Xintong turned China’s first world snooker champion on Monday after finishing an 18-12 victory over Mark Williams on the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
Draping the Chinese language flag over his shoulders in an iconic second of celebration, the 28 year-old is the primary participant with novice standing to elevate the game’s most prestigious trophy.
Zhao can also be solely the third qualifier to win in Sheffield having emerged from the very first spherical of the preliminary competitors final month, profitable an unprecedented 9 matches in complete.
It brings the curtain down on the 2024/25 snooker season, so let’s replicate on what all of it means with the final snooker rankings recap of the marketing campaign.
World primary
Judd Trump was one win away from taking his complete previous the £2 million mark on the official two-year snooker rankings listing.
The 35 year-old can be disenchanted that his time period ended on the semi-final stage within the Crucible Theatre, however he stays method out in entrance as the sport’s world primary.
Kyren Wilson is the one one who is more likely to mount any form of severe problem for prime spot through the upcoming 2025/26 marketing campaign.
The Kettering cueist received’t have loads of factors to defend till the gamers return to Sheffield subsequent yr, however he stays virtually £700,000 shy of Trump’s present tally as issues stand.
Certainly, such is the extent of Trump’s lead that if he had his whole earnings from the 2023/24 time period deducted from his complete now, he’d nonetheless have greater than sufficient to be ranked second on this planet.
Prime 16
With a lot cash on provide on the World Snooker Championship, it’s unsurprising to see loads of motion elsewhere within the prime 16.
Following his very good run to the ultimate, 50 year-old Mark Williams rises to quantity three on this planet – simply forward of his fellow Class of 1992 graduates John Higgins and Ronnie O’Sullivan.
Regardless of solely reaching the second spherical, Ding Junhui rises 4 locations to sixth based mostly on the rolling two-year system.
Mark Selby drops three rungs on the ladder to seventh, simply forward of Neil Robertson, Barry Hawkins, and Mark Allen.
New world champion Zhao Xintong then rejoins the highest 16 with a world rating of 11.
There was controversy surrounding the Chinese language competitor’s quick return to the elite bracket.
Some gamers have questioned the validity of his earnings from the season getting used to find out his new rating contemplating he wasn’t technically knowledgeable participant.
However the World Snooker Tour and the World Skilled Billiards and Snooker Affiliation have each insisted over the course of the final week that this little-known clause is allowed beneath the principles.
Zhao pocketed £500,000 for his exploits in Sheffield along with the £10,000 he collected for qualifying for the UK Championship, which sees him immediately return to the big-time following the conclusion of his ban final September.
That’s unhealthy information for Ali Carter, who’s the unlucky potter who will drop right down to seventeenth within the pecking order.
Finishing the highest 16 behind Zhao, in the meantime, are Zhang Anda, Xiao Guodong, Shaun Murphy, Si Jiahui, and Chris Wakelin.
There are actually 5 Chinese language snooker gamers ranked inside the highest 16 for the primary time.
Different movers
Dropping within the first spherical to eventual champion Zhao Xintong, Jak Jones rapidly drops again out of the highest 16 and is right down to twentieth.
It’s much more dramatic for Luca Brecel, although, with the Belgian Bullet plummetting 32 locations to thirty ninth.
With Brecel’s big World Championship winner’s cheque from 2023 subtracted from his complete, the 30 year-old must rebuild his profession if he needs to return to the highest tier.
Shifting in the other way is Lei Peifan, who ended his first yr of a two-year card with a exceptional rating of quantity 30 on this planet.
| Official 2-12 months World Rankings | Could sixth, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,984,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,304,300 |
| 3 | Mark Williams | £858,600 |
| 4 | John Higgins | £781,250 |
| 5 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £740,000 |
| 6 | Ding Junhui | £606,000 |
| 7 | Mark Selby | £558,000 |
| 8 | Neil Robertson | £547,050 |
| 9 | Barry Hawkins | £540,050 |
| 10 | Mark Allen | £522,900 |
| 11 | Zhao Xintong | £510,000 |
| 12 | Zhang Anda | £491,550 |
| 13 | Xiao Guodong | £469,000 |
| 14 | Shaun Murphy | £435,900 |
| 15 | Si Jiahui | £420,200 |
| 16 | Chris Wakelin | £388,400 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Ali Carter | £378,300 |
| 18 | Gary Wilson | £353,900 |
| 19 | Tom Ford | £350,950 |
| 20 | Wu Yize | £342,600 |
| 21 | Jak Jones | £324,800 |
| 22 | Stuart Bingham | £323,900 |
| 23 | David Gilbert | £302,650 |
| 24 | Hossein Vafaei | £284,300 |
| 25 | Jack Lisowski | £244,600 |
| 26 | Pang Junxu | £242,400 |
| 27 | Stephen Maguire | £227,750 |
| 28 | Joe O’Connor | £223,750 |
| 29 | Elliot Slessor | £216,750 |
| 30 | Yuan Sijun | £208,600 |
| 31 | Lei Peifan | £206,000 |
| 32 | Zhou Yuelong | £201,050 |
| 33 | Noppon Saengkham | £196,850 |
| 34 | Matthew Selt | £193,250 |
| 35 | Jimmy Robertson | £193,100 |
| 36 | Jackson Web page | £192,800 |
| 37 | Ryan Day | £187,300 |
| 38 | Lyu Haotian | £177,500 |
| 39 | Luca Brecel | £173,900 |
| 40 | Ricky Walden | £162,200 |
| 41 | Xu Si | £161,550 |
| 42 | Ben Woollaston | £159,900 |
| 43 | Martin O’Donnell | £147,000 |
| 44 | Daniel Wells | £144,500 |
| 45 | He Guoqiang | £138,150 |
| 46 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £132,000 |
| 47 | Robbie Williams | £131,300 |
| 48 | Fan Zhengyi | £129,900 |
| 49 | Robert Milkins | £128,700 |
| 50 | Aaron Hill | £121,150 |
| 51 | Jamie Jones | £120,350 |
| 52 | Matthew Stevens | £118,050 |
| 53 | Jordan Brown | £115,650 |
| 54 | Mark Davis | £115,150 |
| 55 | Scott Donaldson | £114,150 |
| 56 | Liu Hongyu | £110,300 |
| 57 | David Lilley | £107,350 |
| 58 | Lengthy Zehuang | £102,000 |
| 59 | Anthony McGill | £101,450 |
| 60 | Sanderson Lam | £100,000 |
| 61 | Graeme Dott | £97,800 |
| 62 | Cao Yupeng | £92,000 |
| 63 | Ishpreet Singh Chadha | £90,400 |
| 64 | Stan Moody | £86,750 |
Who received relegated?
With Zhao Xintong unexpectedly coming into the two-year snooker rankings listing, there may have been awkward ramifications for these across the prime 64 cut-off level.
Fortuitously, the participant who was initially ranked in sixty fourth was already assured of his skilled standing for subsequent season both method.
Zak Surety will slip right down to sixty fifth however is protected having solely performed one yr of his present two-year skilled card.
That can also be the case for the likes of Michael Holt, Oliver Strains, Ben Mertens, Antoni Kowalski, and Ken Doherty.
Certainly, there are 31 gamers in complete who completed outdoors the highest 64 however get pleasure from the advantages of getting yet another yr left on their playing cards.
Elsewhere, Ross Muir, Jiang Jun, Louis Heathcote, and Liam Graham all completed outdoors the highest 64 however can be granted contemporary two-year playing cards based mostly on their elevated positions within the one-year snooker rankings.
For the likes of Jamie Clarke, Ashley Carty, Tian Pengfei, Alfie Burden, Ian Burns, and Andrew Higginson, ending outdoors the highest 64 means tour relegation.
Former German Masters champion Anthony Hamilton can also be amongst this group, and it’s unsure whether or not he’ll go to Q College or announce his retirement in the identical method as fellow veterans Joe Perry and Dominic Dale.
Jimmy White and Marco Fu each did not safe tour survival on their very own benefit too.
Nevertheless it has already been confirmed that the pair can be awarded with contemporary invitational tour playing cards for his or her contributions to the game.
Relegated Gamers
Jamie Clarke (66)
Ashley Carty (68)
Anthony Hamilton (69)
Xing Zihao (74)
Joe Perry (75)
Tian Pengfei (76)
Ma Hailong (77)
Stuart Carrington (78)
Alfie Burden (79)
Hammad Miah (80)
David Grace (81)
Ian Burns (82)
Rory Thor (83)
Sam Craigie (84)
Alexander Ursenbacher (87)
Andrew Higginson (89)
Dean Younger (96)
Liam Pullen (98)
Andrew Pagett (99)
Manasawin Phetmalaikul (112)
Martin Gould (113)
Mostafa Dorgham (114)
Reanne Evans (118)
Ahmed Aly Elsayed (=125)
Baipat Siripaporn (=125)
When is the following snooker occasion?
Many of the relegated gamers above and a bucket load of aspiring amateurs will subsequent head to Q College in a bid to seal their spots on the World Snooker Tour.
There can be 4 Q College tournaments in 2025 – two in Leicester and a pair in Bangkok – with the motion going down between Could thirteenth and June 1st.
The 2025/26 snooker season is then scheduled to launch with the rating version of Championship League Snooker on June tenth.
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