World Snooker Rankings 2012/13: Seedings Revision Three Round-Up

Little over a month since the season’s previous seedings revision, the UK Championship marks the third cut-off of the season, as Mark Selby replaces Judd Trump at the head of the rankings, while there have been various other changes up and down the list.

This seeding list will now be used for all of the remaining tournaments this season, with the exception of the 2013 World Championship.

As ever, I have also now produced the new projected seedings list, which will eventually determine the seedings for the Crucible. You may notice that the table is a slightly different format this time, as you can now highlight particular rows by hovering your cursor on the table, whilst you can now sort the players by different columns.

Unfortunately the sorting appears to have a mind of its own in places, but I will see what I can do about that!

A final point to note is that at this stage I have not yet added minimum points earned for the PTC Finals and will do so once the 32 players involved have been confirmed, following the Munich Open.

Click below for a round-up of all of the changes to the seeding list and the usual handy links…

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Selby Through To Face Murphy In UK Final

The 2012 UK Championship has been notable for its comebacks, but tonight there was to be no fairytale for Mark Davis as Leicester’s Mark Selby earned a comfortable 9-4 victory to not only book his place in a first UK Championship final, but also ensure that he will return to the top of the world rankings after this tournament, displacing Judd Trump.

Click below for my thoughts ahead of what promises to be a thrilling final, as well as view videos from both Shaun and Mark’s post-semi-final press conferences…

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Selby 8/11 Favourite To Win williamhill.com UK Championship

Mark Selby returned to world number one by making through to the final of the williamhill.com UK Championship and the tournament sponsors make the Jester 8/11 favourite to win the match.

Shaun Murphy, whose performance at the end of his match against Ali Carter was sensational is the 11/10 slight outsider.

“The whole week has been absolutely fantastic and we definitely have a final worthy of the action that has preceded it,” said William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly.

Williamhill.com UK Championship:8/11 Mark Selby; 11/10 Shaun Murphy

Murphy Favourite For williamhill.com UK Championship After 12/1 Comeback

Shaun Murphy made it through to the final of the williamhill.com UK Championship in sensational circumstances and at one point drifted to 12/1 to win the match with the sponsors (25/1 to win the tournament). The biggest bet placed on him to win the match from 8-4 down was just £20. Carter was a whopping 1/40 to win the match when he was 8-4 up.

He has become the first odds on favourite of the week to win the tournament with Selby 11/8 and Davis 7/1.

“We thought that there was no way back for Murphy and our punters certainly felt the same way,” said William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly. “Now that he is in the final, with the other semi still to play, he is now the clear favourite to win the tournament.”

Tournament winner: 10/11 Murphy; 11/8 Selby; 7/1 Davis