The primary rating occasion of the brand new snooker season has concluded, however there hasn’t been a lot motion on the planet rankings.
The 2023/24 marketing campaign launched with a whimper quite than a bang and a laborious four-week version of Championship League Snooker.
Performed behind closed doorways and with one of many smaller prize funds on the snooker calendar, it didn’t have a huge effect on the official two-year rankings.
The Championship League incorporates a league format for almost all of the competitors after which a dash best-of-five body last, offering alternatives for some lower-ranked rivals to contest the latter levels.
The likes of Chris Wakelin, Noppon Saengkham, Cao Yupeng, Xiao Guodong, and Sam Craigie all reached the final eight in Leicester.
However regardless of all that, the title-deciding encounter finally proved to be an affair between a few confirmed champions.
Shaun Murphy overcame Mark Williams 3-0 on the Morningside Enviornment on Friday night to land a twelfth profession rating success and a 3rd from this calendar 12 months alone.
Official World Snooker Tour rankings
Regardless of having withdrawn from the occasion, Ronnie O’Sullivan maintains his standing because the world primary within the snooker rankings.
O’Sullivan boasts a small benefit over world champion Luca Brecel in second and Mark Allen in third.
The latter pair will seemingly problem for high spot at varied levels later this season, in order that will probably be an ongoing plot line to control.
Murphy, who stays in seventh after incomes £33,000 for his triumph, additionally has aspirations of difficult for the primary place.
The 40 year-old remains to be greater than £400,000 shy of O’Sullivan’s goal, however Murphy has hardly any factors to defend this season and can cut back the hole shortly ought to he handle to maintain this stage of type.
The remaining positions within the high eight are as they have been following the World Championship, with Judd Trump in fourth, Mark Selby in fifth, Neil Robertson in sixth, and Kyren Wilson in eighth.
Williams leapfrogs previous rival John Higgins into ninth after reaching the Championship League last, from which he pocketed £23,000.
A bit additional down, Iran’s Hossein Vafaei has joined the highest 16 for the primary time in his profession.
David Gilbert, who was defending the factors he garnered from his Championship League Snooker success in 2021, drops three locations to quantity 23.
The most important mover is Craigie, whose reward for reaching Stage Three of the event is a six-place soar from 51 to 45 within the pecking order.
| World Rankings | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £883,000 |
| 2 | Luca Brecel | £875,500 |
| 3 | Mark Allen | £837,500 |
| 4 | Judd Trump | £556,000 |
| 5 | Mark Selby | £549,000 |
| 6 | Neil Robertson | £542,000 |
| 7 | Shaun Murphy | £472,500 |
| 8 | Kyren Wilson | £424,000 |
| 9 | Mark Williams | £412,000 |
| 10 | John Higgins | £396,500 |
| 11 | Ali Carter | £300,000 |
| 12 | Robert Milkins | £294,500 |
| 13 | Jack Lisowski | £279,000 |
| 14 | Gary Wilson | £260,000 |
| 15 | Ding Junhui | £243,500 |
| 16 | Hossein Vafaei | £241,000 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Ryan Day | £238,500 |
| 18 | Anthony McGill | £212,000 |
| 19 | Barry Hawkins | £204,500 |
| 20 | Ricky Walden | £193,000 |
BetVictor Sequence
Murphy, in the meantime, takes an early lead within the BetVictor Sequence race.
The cash chief after the eight counting occasions this season will once more obtain a bumper bonus price £150,000.
The collection will embody the 4 BetVictor Dwelling Nations Sequence occasions, the German Masters, the European Masters, and the Shoot Out along with the already accomplished Championship League.
Final season, Robert Milkins secured a memorable triumph within the Welsh Open to complete on high of the BetVictor Sequence standings.
| BetVictor Sequence | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun Murphy | £33,000 |
| 2 | Mark Williams | £23,000 |
| 3 | Sam Craigie | £11,000 |
| 4 | Chris Wakelin | £11,000 |
| 5 | Robert Milkins | £9,000 |
| 6 | Noppon Saengkham | £9,000 |
| 7 | Cao Yupeng | £8,000 |
| 8 | Xiao Guodong | £8,000 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
The following rating occasion within the 2023/24 snooker season would be the European Masters in Germany, going down subsequent month from August 22 to 27.
There will probably be qualifying for that event subsequent week on the Morningside Enviornment (July 25 to 29).
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