Interesting news today as World Snooker have announced the ranking points schedule for the upcoming 2009/10 season will be amended, no doubt due to the loss of the Northern Ireland Trophy and Bahrain Championship events compared to last year…
Category: Rankings
World Snooker Confirm Main Tour Wildcards
As was rumoured, World Snooker have today confirmed the four main tour wildcards for the 2009/10 season and it is obvious that they have gone for experience over youth. In addition the final Asian nomination has now been confirmed so we now know the full 96 players who make up the main tour next season…
2008/9 Player Reviews: 17-32
Another day, another chapter of my 2008/9 season player reviews as today I take a look at the players who just missed out on a place in the top 16 for next season…
2008/9 Player Reviews: 33-48
My 2008/9 season player reviews continue today with a look at the next 16 players, those occupying positions 33-48 in the rankings…
2008/9 Player Reviews: 49-64
Part three of my 2008/9 review sees me look at those who managed to finish the season ranked between 49th and 64th positions…
2008/9 Player Reviews: The Extra Eight
Time for part two of my 2008/9 players review and today I look at the eight players who despite having finished outside of the top 64 on the two-year list, have done enough to retain their places on the main tour via the one-year rankings…
2008/9 Player Reviews: The Unlucky 24
Whilst you might be expecting me to review the season by looking back over the various tournaments staged, as I have already done that (for half the season anyway), as part of my 2008 review, I am going to do things a little differently here.
Instead I am going to look back at the seasons of each of the top 96 players on tour, increasing in detail as we move up the rankings. Today sees me look back at the 24 players who barring wildcards, will have lost their main tour places at the end of the season…
My 2014 Top Eight
As UK viewers will know, during the BBC coverage of the World Championship final last week, their experts looked back at predictions that they made during the 2004 Championship as they tried to predict how the top eight in the rankings would look in 2009. As part of the feature they also had a look five years into the future once again and for a bit of fun, so will I…