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This is a list of professional snooker players ordered by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. 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.
The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship is Joe Davis, who won fifteen consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from the reintroduction in 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is shared by Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan, both having won the ...
O'Sullivan defeated Trump 18–13 in the final to win his seventh world title, equalling Hendry's modern-era record. [144] Aged 46 years and 148 days, he became the oldest world champion in the tournament's history, surpassing Reardon, who was aged 45 years and 203 days when he won his last title in 1978. [ 145 ]
O'Sullivan defeated Trump 18–13 in the 2022 World Championship final to win his seventh world title, equalling Hendry for the most world titles in the modern era. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Aged 46 years and 148 days, he became the oldest World Champion in snooker history, surpassing Reardon, who won his last title in 1978 aged 45 years and 203 days. [ 40 ]
Davis won the first 15 world championships from 1927 to 1946, and he is the only undefeated player in World Snooker Championship history. In 1935, he scored the championship's first century break . A professional English billiards player from the age of 18, Davis was World Billiards Champion four times between 1928 and 1932.
Of these, three have reached the final of the event, those being White (6 times), Stevens (2 times), and Ding (1 time); Allen has reached the semi-final twice. Stuart Bingham has a World title and a Masters title, but is yet to win the UK Championship for his career Triple Crown, having reached the semi-final three times. [29] [30]
Judd Trump MBE (born 20 August 1989 [2]) is an English professional snooker player who is a former world champion and the current world number one.Widely regarded as one of the sport's greatest and most talented players, he is currently in fourth place on the list of all-time ranking event winners, having won 30 ranking titles.
At the China Open in April, Selby became the first player to win a second ranking title in the 2014–15 season; after advancing to the final without meeting any player inside the world's top 16, he outplayed world number 56 Gary Wilson to win 10–2. [121] He then began his title defence at the World Championship, with no first-time world ...