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Until 1982, the World Championship was the only ranking event. 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 ...
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.
Neil Robertson (born 11 February 1982) [2] is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former world champion and former world number one.Considered one of the greatest players of all time [3], he is the most successful player from outside the United Kingdom, and the only non-UK born to have completed snooker's Triple Crown, [2] having won the World Championship in 2010, the Masters ...
This is a list of notable amateur and professional snooker players, past and present. Players currently on the World Snooker Tour are shown in bold text with a following †. A
Seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan does not think he is the greatest snooker player of all time, even as he bids for a record eighth Crucible title.
Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan OBE (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player. [2] Widely recognised as one of the most talented and accomplished players in snooker history, he has won the World Snooker Championship seven times, a modern-era record he holds jointly with Stephen Hendry.
Mark Anthony Selby MBE (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Considered one of the greatest players of all time, [2] [3] he has been ranked world number one on multiple occasions. He has won a total of 23 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all-time list of ranking tournament winners.
Coach Frank Callan, in his book Frank Callan's Snooker Clinic (1989), compared the most successful player at the time, Steve Davis, to Joe Davis and concluded that Joe was the better player. [123] While learning to play snooker, Steve Davis was heavily influenced by Joe Davis's book How I Play Snooker (1956).