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In the 1982–83 season, two more ranking events were added to the snooker calendar: the International Open and the Professional Players Tournament. In 1984, the UK Championship, initially a non-ranking tournament, became a ranking event for the first time. More ranking tournaments were established over the years.
The World Snooker Championship originally was the only event to offer ranking points, until the 1982 International Open. [4] Over the next 22 seasons, five men held the first position; Reardon ( 1976/77 to 1980/81 ), Cliff Thorburn ( 1981/82 ), Reardon again for 1982/83 [ note 1 ] , Steve Davis ( 1983/84 to 1989/90 ) and Stephen Hendry ( 1990/ ...
[5] [6] The UK Championship became a ranking tournament in 1984, [7] contributing points to the following season's rankings for the first time. In the 1992–93 season , and from 2010–11 to 2015–16 , a number of events were classified as " minor-ranking tournaments ".
The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the 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 .
Steve Davis (pictured in 2014) topped the ranking list for the first time. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , the governing body for professional snooker , first published official world rankings for players on the main tour for the 1976–77 season .
The list for the 1986–87 snooker season was the first to only take account of results over two seasons, and the rankings for 1987–88 were also based on results from the preceding two seasons. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The snooker journalist Janice Hale wrote positively about the rankings being calculated across two seasons rather than three.
Steve Davis (pictured in 2014) was ranked in first place for the fourth consecutive year. [1] Neal Foulds (pictured in 2015) was ranked within the top 16 for the first time.. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the governing body for professional snooker, first introduced a ranking system for professional players in 1976, with the aim of seeding players for the ...