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The 2023 World Seniors Championship was a snooker tournament that took place from 3 to 7 May 2023 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. [1] The 14th edition of the World Seniors Championship, [2] first held in 1991, [3] it was held at the Crucible for the fifth consecutive year and sponsored for the first time by law firm LLP Solicitors.
The tour was created and run by the company Snooker Legends in 2017, after it first staged the 2017 World Seniors Championship.. The World Seniors Tour began with a series of four non-ranking events in the 2017–18 season: the UK Seniors Championship, the Seniors Irish Masters, the Seniors Masters and the World Seniors Championship.
The minimum age for the event returned to 40 years. All former World Seniors Champions and World Snooker Champions, who registered for the event, were seeded through to Blackpool, and the remaining places were filled through a qualifying event. [13] In 2017 and 2018 it was held for non-tour players aged 40 or over at the beginning of the year ...
Day leads Wilson early at World Snooker Championship 2023. 10:30, Jack Rathborn. Day picks up the opening frame against Wilson to lead 1-0. Lisowski leads Saengkham 6-3 at World Snooker ...
The world rankings are updated at specific revision dates following each ranking tournament. On these dates, the ranking points from the latest 2023–24 season ranking event are added, while those from two years ago in the 2021–22 snooker season are removed from a player's total.
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 World Snooker Tour in the 2023–24 season initially involved 130 professional players, but dropped to 129 players. [1] [2] The decrease in membership was due to Dechawat Poomjaeng letting his WPBSA membership lapse and thus meant he was automatically removed from the main tour.
The 2022–23 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played from June 2022 to May 2023. ... World Women's Snooker Tour, World Seniors Tour, ...