The most recent snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the 2025 World Grand Prix, the season’s fifteenth rating event.
Neil Robertson triumphed on the Kai Tak Area in Hong Kong with a thunderous 10-0 defeat of Stuart Bingham in Sunday’s one-sided last.
It marks the second time in Robertson’s profession that he has received a rating occasion last with a whitewash scoreline, and it was additionally the second trophy he claimed throughout this marketing campaign.
The outcomes on the World Grand Prix had a big influence on the snooker rankings, so let’s evaluation a number of the updates.
High 16
After a spell within the doldrums, Robertson briefly returned to the highest 16 after his victory on the English Open in September earlier than subsequently dropping exterior the elite bracket once more.
The Australian received’t have to fret about that taking place once more for fairly a while, although.
The £180,000 champion’s cheque awarded on the World Grand Prix sees Robertson transfer again as much as quantity 11 on the official two-year record.
Above the Melbourne man, the highest six positions stay unchanged with Judd Trump nonetheless boasting a wholesome lead in first over Kyren Wilson.
Mark Selby, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Williams, and Luca Brecel proceed to occupy the next spots, with John Higgins and Mark Allen swapping positions in seventh and eighth.
In ninth is Ding Junhui, whereas Shaun Murphy returns to the highest ten after reaching the semi-finals in Hong Kong.
Zhang Anda and Barry Hawkins each drop two rungs on the ladder to twelfth and Thirteenth respectively behind Robertson.
Si Jiahui, Ali Carter, and Xiao Guodong full the present crop of high 16 members.
Who had been the opposite movers?
Given the truth that the World Grand Prix solely boasted a area of 32 gamers, there wasn’t an excessive amount of change aside from that outlined above.
Bingham might have been humbled within the last, however his sturdy performances earlier within the event helped him to enhance his rating by three spots.
The veteran former world champion returns to the highest 20 because of this.
| Official 2-Yr World Rankings | March 10, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,788,700 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,221,800 |
| 3 | Mark Selby | £798,000 |
| 4 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £693,000 |
| 5 | Mark Williams | £651,600 |
| 6 | Luca Brecel | £623,900 |
| 7 | John Higgins | £607,250 |
| 8 | Mark Allen | £602,400 |
| 9 | Ding Junhui | £561,000 |
| 10 | Shaun Murphy | £518,900 |
| 11 | Neil Robertson | £515,050 |
| 12 | Zhang Anda | £509,550 |
| 13 | Barry Hawkins | £503,050 |
| 14 | Si Jiahui | £439,700 |
| 15 | Ali Carter | £395,800 |
| 16 | Xiao Guodong | £389,000 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Gary Wilson | £386,400 |
| 18 | Jak Jones | £377,800 |
| 19 | Tom Ford | £350,950 |
| 20 | Stuart Bingham | £349,900 |
| 21 | Chris Wakelin | £341,400 |
| 22 | Wu Yize | £310,600 |
| 23 | David Gilbert | £307,150 |
| 24 | Hossein Vafaei | £288,800 |
| 25 | Jack Lisowski | £277,600 |
1-year snooker rankings
The World Grand Prix lineup was primarily based off the one-year snooker rankings, with the highest 32 gamers from that record qualifying for Hong Kong.
The identical record shall be used to find out the contributors on the upcoming Gamers Championship and the Tour Championship.
For the Gamers Championship, the sector shall be decreased to 16 with the draw now confirmed for that competitors in Telford.
The £80,000 runner-up prize that Bingham collected proved to be sufficient to see him leapfrog his manner into the Gamers Championship draw, the place he’ll satirically face third seed Robertson within the first spherical.
Ali Carter’s early exit final week proved pricey for the Captain, who received’t be seen once more till the World Championship after dropping to seventeenth.
The 45 year-old has fallen to 18th within the provisional Race to the Crucible pecking order as properly, that means he’ll positively be pressured into the World Championship qualifiers this yr.
Gamers Championship Draw
Trump vs Lei
Hawkins vs Murphy
Xiao vs Wu
Higgins vs Wakelin
Robertson vs Bingham
Selby vs Si
Williams vs Ding
Wilson vs Allen
The most recent no-show from Ronnie O’Sullivan, in the meantime, ensured that he would miss out on an invitation to each the Gamers and Tour Championships as properly.
High seed Judd Trump will face Lei Peifan within the opening spherical of the Gamers Championship, with Kyren Wilson set to face reigning champion Mark Allen.
Lei, Allen, Bingham, and Chris Wakelin are the gamers at the moment exterior the highest 12 and are lacking out on spots on the Tour Championship in Manchester as issues stand.
| 1-year snooker rankings | March 10, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £993,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £541,800 |
| 3 | Neil Robertson | £407,050 |
| 4 | John Higgins | £333,750 |
| 5 | Xiao Guodong | £306,500 |
| 6 | Mark Selby | £285,000 |
| 7 | Mark Williams | £265,600 |
| 8 | Barry Hawkins | £261,550 |
| 9 | Shaun Murphy | £257,900 |
| 10 | Ding Junhui | £235,000 |
| 11 | Si Jiahui | £219,200 |
| 12 | Wu Yize | £205,600 |
| — | — | — |
| 13 | Chris Wakelin | £194,400 |
| 14 | Stuart Bingham | £169,400 |
| 15 | Mark Allen | £163,400 |
| 16 | Lei Peifan | £161,000 |
When is the subsequent snooker occasion?
There’s break from the principle tour this week with the subsequent snooker occasion not happening till later within the month.
The Gamers Championship will run from March seventeenth to twenty third, with the highest 16 gamers from the one-year snooker rankings within the draw.
Earlier than that, nevertheless, would be the Q Tour World Play-offs in Turkey (March Eleventh-Thirteenth) the place three spots on the World Snooker Tour shall be up for grabs.
The European Newbie Championships are additionally being held this week in Antalya.
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