With the season now complete, attention switches to how the field will be made up for the 2009/10 season. As the places are filled, I will update this post so keep checking back. If anyone has additional information on some of the amateur tournaments or spots any mistakes, please let me know.
For a full explanation of how the tour places are allocated, please see my previous article here.
The players currently confirmed to be on the main tour are as follows:
The Top 64
These players finished inside the top 64 on the two year rankings and so will retain their place on the circuit as a result.
1 Ronnie O’Sullivan
2 Stephen Maguire
3 Shaun Murphy
4 John Higgins
5 Ali Carter
6 Ryan Day
7 Mark Selby
8 Marco Fu
9 Neil Robertson
10 Stephen Hendry
11 Mark Allen
12 Joe Perry
13 Ding Junhui
14 Peter Ebdon
15 Mark Williams
16 Mark King
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17 Barry Hawkins
18 Jamie Cope
19 Dave Harold
20 Ricky Walden
21 Stuart Bingham
22 Joe Swail
23 Steve Davis
24 Michael Holt
25 Stephen Lee
26 Matthew Stevens
27 Liang Wenbo
28 Graeme Dott
29 Nigel Bond
30 Judd Trump
31 Fergal O’Brien
32 Gerard Greene
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33 Anthony Hamilton
34 Dominic Dale
35 Ian McCulloch
36 Michael Judge
37 Stuart Pettman
38 Mike Dunn
39 Rory McLeod
40 Jamie Burnett
41 Alan McManus
42 Adrian Gunnell
43 Andrew Higginson
44 Ken Doherty
45 Marcus Campbell
46 Martin Gould
47 Mark Davis
48 Jimmy Michie
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49 Tom Ford
50 Andy Hicks
51 David Gilbert
52 Barry Pinches
53 John Parrott
54 Paul Davies
55 Robert Milkins
56 Jimmy White
57 Mark Joyce
58 David Morris
59 Liu Song
60 Jin Long
61 Rod Lawler
62 David Roe
63 Joe Delaney
64 Peter Lines
The Top 8 (One Year List)
These are the top eight players on the 2008/9 one year list, not already on the tour via the two year list.
65 Matt Selt
66 Lee Spick
67 Matt Couch
68 Daniel Wells
69 Li Hang
70 Simon Bedford
71 Patrick Wallace
72 Atthasit Mahitthi
Then a further eight will be promoted from the PIOS and these are as follows:
To view the final PIOS rankings please click here.
– Xiao Guodong (2009 PIOS Number 2)
– Lee Page (2009 PIOS Number 3)
– Bjorn Haneveer (2009 PIOS Number 4)
– Stephen Rowlings (2009 PIOS Number 5)
– Ben Woollaston (2009 PIOS Number 6)
– Noppadol Sangnil (2009 PIOS Number 7)
– Craig Steadman (2009 PIOS Number 8)
– Chris Norbury (2009 PIOS Number 9)
The remaining 24 players come from other amateur tournaments that have taken place over the last few months, as well as four World Snooker wildcards. They are as follows:
– Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (2008 IBSF World Champion)
– Anda Zhang (2009 Asian Under-19 Champion)
– Jimmy Robertson (English NGB Nomination 1 (Pro-ticket tour rankings number 1))
– James Wattana (2009 ACBS Asian Champion)
– Mark Boyle (Scottish Nomination – captured the Scottish Amateur Championship to top the rankings)
– Michael White (Welsh NGB Nomination – tops the Welsh national rankings)
– Brendan O’Donoghue (Irish NGB Nomination – Number 1 in the Irish rankings)
– Jordan Brown (Northern Irish NGB Nomination – Number 1 in the rankings)
– Sam Baird (English NGB Nomination 2 – Won the 2009 Pro Ticket Tour Play Offs)
– Tony Drago (2009 EBSA European Play-Off Winner – defeated Roy Stolk 5-4 in the final)
– David Hogan (2009 EBSA European Champion – defeated Mario Fernandez in the final)
– Mei Xiwen (2009 ACBS Asian Nomination)
– David Gray (Wildcard)
– Ian Preece (Wildcard)
– Andrew Norman (Wildcard)
– Joe Jogia (Wildcard – Topped the PIOS rankings but could not take main tour place via that competition as he was not a full member of his national governing body)