While the professional season has now been completed, the race for tour places for 2010/11 rages on and this week has seen another eight names confirmed via the PIOS route. Click below to see who has already been confirmed for next season and where the remaining names will come from…
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 John Higgins
2 Neil Robertson
3 Ronnie O’Sullivan
4 Allister Carter
5 Ding Junhui
6 Stephen Maguire
7 Shaun Murphy
8 Mark J Williams
9 Mark Selby
10 Mark Allen
11 Stephen Hendry
12 Ryan Day
13 Graeme Dott
14 Marco Fu
15 Mark King
16 Liang Wenbo
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17 Jamie Cope
18 Peter Ebdon
19 Joe Perry
20 Ricky Walden
21 Barry Hawkins
22 Steve Davis
23 Stephen Lee
24 Michael Holt
25 Matthew Stevens
26 Mark Davis
27 Judd Trump
28 Gerard Greene
29 Stuart Bingham
30 Ken Doherty
31 Dave Harold
32 Andrew Higginson
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33 Mike Dunn
34 Rory McLeod
35 Stuart Pettman
36 Robert Milkins
37 Jamie Burnett
38 Nigel Bond
39 Joe Swail
40 Marcus Campbell
41 Tom Ford
42 Anthony Hamilton
43 Martin Gould
44 Adrian Gunnell
45 Dominic Dale
46 Alan McManus
47 Fergal O’Brien
48 Ian McCulloch
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49 Rod Lawler
50 Peter Lines
51 Matthew Selt
52 Michael Judge
53 Andy Hicks
54 Tony Drago
55 David Gilbert
56 Jimmy Michie
57 Barry Pinches
58 Mark Joyce
59 David Morris
60 Jimmy White
61 Joe Delaney
62 Bjorn Haneveer
63 Jimmy Robertson
64 Paul Davies
The Top 8 (One Year List)
These are the top eight players on the 2009/10 one year list, not already on the tour via the two year list.
65 James Wattana
66 Patrick Wallace
67 Zhang Anda
68 Simon Bedford
69 Joe Jogia
70 Michael White
71 Matt Couch
72 Ben Woollaston
Then a further eight will be promoted from the PIOS and these are as follows:
To view the final PIOS rankings please click here.
– Jack Lisowski (2010 PIOS Number 1)
– Liam Highfield (2010 PIOS Number 2)
– Paul Davison (2010 PIOS Number 3)
– Anthony McGill (2010 PIOS Number 4)
– Kyren Wilson (2010 PIOS Number 5)
– Jamie O’Neill (2010 PIOS Number 6)
– Justin Astley (2010 PIOS Number 7)
– Jamie Jones (2010 PIOS Number 8)
The remaining 16 players come from other amateur tournaments that have taken place over the last few months, as well as World Snooker wildcards. They are as follows:
– Alfie Burden (2009 IBSF World Champion)
– Noppon Saengkham (2009 IBSF World Under 21 Champion)
– Issara Kachaiwong (2010 ACBS Asian Champion)
– Liu Chuang (2010 Asian U-21 Champion)
– Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon (2010 ACBS Asian Nomination)
– James McBain (Scottish Nomination – won an arranged play off)
– Andrew Pagett (Welsh NGB Nomination)
– Dermot McGlinchey (Northern Irish NGB Nomination – Number 1 in the rankings)
– Kuldesh Johal (English NGB Nomination 2 – Won the 2010 Pro Ticket Tour Play Offs)
– Adam Wicheard (English NGB Nomination 1 (Pro-ticket tour rankings number 1))
– Kurt Maflin (2009 EBSA European Play-Off Winner – defeated Roy Stolk 5-4 in the final)
– Jak Jones (2010 EBSA European U-19 Champion – defeated Anthony McGill in the final)
– Reanne Evans (Wildcard)
– Igor Figueiredo (Wildcard)
– Patrick Einsle (Wildcard)
– Xiao Guodong (Wildcard)