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A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World rankings were introduced in the 1976–77 season, initially based on the results from the previous three World Championships. This meant that the 1974 World Championship retrospectively became the first ranking event, won by Ray Reardon.
The sport of snooker has utilised a world rankings system since 1975, used to seed players on the World Snooker Tour for tournaments. Originally, rankings were published once a year at the conclusion of a season: this had the effect of ensuring the World Champion would be the top seed for the entirety of the subsequent season.
The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour. First introduced in the 1976–77 season , world rankings are maintained by the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association .
Originally, the world rankings were decided based only on results in the World Snooker Championship, but other events were later added. [1] The system used for the 2022–23 snooker season was first used in the 2010–11 season , where players won ranking points based entirely on prize money won from these events. [ 2 ]
The same rudimentary system was used for a number of years, but the rankings for the 1983–84 season included performances in two additional tournaments during the 1982–83 season. [5] [6] The UK Championship became a ranking tournament in 1984, [7] contributing points to the following season's rankings for the first time.
The rankings at the start of 2021/2022 season are determined by prize money earned in the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons and are updated after every tournament carrying ranking status; the players are re-ranked at the beginning of the current season after removing players relegated at the end of the previous season from the ranking list. As ...
2021–22 snooker world rankings; 2022–23 snooker world rankings ... Snooker at the 2022 World Games – men's singles; 2022 Snooker Shoot Out ... 2022 World Women ...
The World Snooker Tour in the 2021–22 season consists of a field of 122 professional players. [6] The top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2021 World Championship, and 27 of the players who earned a two-year tour card the previous year automatically qualified for the season.