With the main season over for another year, the battle for the 96 main tour places next season intensifies with the upcoming Q School as well as the staging of various other amateur events that will determine the remaining places. Click below to see how the 2011/12 field is shaping up…
Updated 28/5/2011
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 Mark Williams
2 John Higgins
3 Mark Selby
4 Ding Junhui
5 Neil Robertson
6 Ali Carter
7 Shaun Murphy
8 Stephen Maguire
9 Judd Trump
10 Graeme Dott
11 Ronnie O’Sullivan
12 Mark Allen
13 Peter Ebdon
14 Matthew Stevens
15 Jamie Cope
16 Stephen Hendry
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17 Stuart Bingham
18 Stephen Lee
19 Mark Davis
20 Ricky Walden
21 Martin Gould
22 Barry Hawkins
23 Marco Fu
24 Marcus Campbell
25 Andrew Higginson
26 Mark King
27 Joe Perry
28 Ryan Day
29 Ken Doherty
30 Liang Wenbo
31 Dominic Dale
32 Gerard Greene
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33 Robert Milkins
34 Tom Ford
35 Rory McLeod
36 Anthony Hamilton
37 Fergal O’Brien
38 Mike Dunn
39 Jamie Burnett
40 Nigel Bond
41 Barry Pinches
42 Mark Joyce
43 Matt Selt
44 Steve Davis
45 Michael Holt
46 Tony Drago
47 Jamie Jones
48 Dave Harold
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49 Joe Jogia
50 Peter Lines
51 Alan McManus
52 Jack Lisowski
53 Jimmy Robertson
54 Joe Swail
55 Jimmy White
56 Adrian Gunnell
57 Alfie Burden
58 Rod Lawler
59 Anthony McGill
60 Liu Chuang
61 Andy Hicks
62 Liu Song
63 Ian McCulloch
64 Xiao Guodong
The PTC 8 (Top Eight on the PTC List Not Already On Tour)
These are the top eight players on the 2010/11 PTC Order of Merit not already on the tour via the two year list.
– Bjorn Haneveer
– Michael White
– Liam Highfield
– Ben Woollaston
– Matt Couch
– Andrew Pagett
– Paul Davison
– Igor Figueiredo
Then a further 12 will be promoted from the Q School and these are as follows:
– Andrew Norman (2011 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Adam Wicheard (2011 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– David Grace (2011 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Robin Hull (2011 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Li Yan (2011 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Tian Pengfei (2011 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Simon Bedford (2011 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– David Morris (2011 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Kurt Maflin (2011 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
– David Gilbert (2011 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
– Stuart Carrington (2011 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
– Adam Duffy (2011 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
The remaining 16 players come from other amateur tournaments that have taken place over the last few months, as well as four wildcards. At present that looks to be shaping up as follows:
– Dechawat Poomjaeng (2010 IBSF World Champion)
– Sam Craigie (2010 IBSF World Under 21 Champion)
– Kacper Filipiak (2011 European U-21 Champion)
– Passakorn Suwannawat (2011 Asian Champion)
– Cao Yupeng (2011 Asian U-21 Champion)
– Aditya Mehta (Asian Nomination)
– Sam Baird (English NGB Nomination)
– Daniel Wells (Welsh NGB Nomination)
– Joe Meara (Northern Irish NGB Nomination)
– Scott MacKenzie (Scottish NGB Nomination)
– David Hogan (Republic of Ireland NGB Nomination)
– Luca Brecel (Wildcard)
– James Wattana (Wildcard)
– Lucky Vatnani (Wildcard)
– Yu Delu (Wildcard)