It is that time of year again, as the final main tour places for the 2014/15 begin to slot into place.
Click below for my annual ‘roll call’ post, tracking how all of the 132 professional places will be filled in the coming weeks…
Updated 22/05/2014
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 money rankings and so will retain their place on the circuit as a result.
(End of season rankings as of 05/05/2013)
1 Mark Selby
2 Ding Junhui
3 Neil Robertson
4 Ronnie O’Sullivan
5 Barry Hawkins
6 Judd Trump
7 Shaun Murphy
8 Marco Fu
9 Mark Allen
10 Ricky Walden
11 John Higgins
12 Stuart Bingham
13 Ali Carter
14 Stephen Maguire
15 Joe Perry
16 Mark Davis
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17 Graeme Dott
18 Mark Williams
19 Matthew Stevens
20 Robert Milkins
21 Ryan Day
22 Michael Holt
23 Xiao Guodong
24 Dominic Dale
25 Peter Ebdon
26 Liang Wenbo
27 Michael White
28 Mark King
29 Alan McManus
30 Martin Gould
31 Fergal O’Brien
32 Tom Ford
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33 Ken Doherty
34 Kurt Maflin
35 Marcus Campbell
36 Andrew Higginson
37 David Gilbert
38 Mark Joyce
39 Rod Lawler
40 Ben Woollaston
41 Jamie Burnett
42 Jack Lisowski
43 Jamie Cope
44 Gerard Greene
45 Anthony McGill
46 Cao Yupeng
47 Dechawat Poomjaeng
48 Matt Selt
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49 Aditya Mehta
50 Alfie Burden
51 Anthony Hamilton
52 Yu Delu
53 Rory McLeod
54 Jimmy Robertson
55 Jamie Jones
56 Pankaj Advani
57 Nigel Bond
58 Mike Dunn
59 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
60 Dave Harold
61 Peter Lines
62 Robbie Williams
63 Luca Brecel
64 Jimmy White
The Two Year Cards (35)
These players competed on the main tour in 2013/14 and will start the 2014/15 season on the second year of their two-year tour cards.
- Gary Wilson
- Kyren Wilson
- David Morris
- Stuart Carrington
- Noppon Saengkham
- Li Hang
- Lyu Haotian
- Joe Swail
- Robin Hull
- Alex Davies
- John Astley
- Andrew Pagett
- Hammad Miah
- Vinnie Calabrese
- Chris Wakelin
- Alex Borg
- Chris Norbury
- Igor Figueiredo
- Andrew Norman
- Ratchayothin Yotharuck
- Elliot Slessor
- Ross Muir
- Cao Xinlong
- James Cahill
- Jin Long
Patrick Einsle (name not included on World Snooker list here)- Fraser Patrick
- Alexander Ursenbacher
- Lee Page
- Allan Taylor
- Ryan Clark
- Shi Hanqing
- Ahmed Saif
- Lee Spick
- Jak Jones
- Khalid Beleid
The European Tour 8 (Top Eight on the European Order of Merit, Outside Top 64)
These are the top eight players on the 2013/14 European Order of Merit, not already qualified for the tour by finishing inside the top 64 on the main two year ranking list
- Sam Baird
- Scott Donaldson
- Joel Walker
- Ian Burns
- Michael Wasley
- Barry Pinches
- David Grace
- Tony Drago
APTC Order of Merit (4)
These are the top four players on the 2013/14 Asian Order of Merit, not already qualified for the tour by finishing inside the top 64 on the main two year ranking list:
- Ju Reti
- Liu Chuang
- Lu Chenwei
- Rouzi Maimaiti
The Q School (8)
A further 8 will be promoted from the Q School and these are as follows:
– Craig Steadman (2014 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Tian Pengfei (2014 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Zhang Anda (2014 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Chris Melling (2014 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Liam Highfield (2014 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Lee Walker (2014 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Michael Leslie (2014 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Michael Georgiou (2014 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
EBSA Play-Offs (3)
Three more qualified via the EBSA Play-Offs:
- Ian Glover
- Zak Surety
- Steven Hallworth
International Nominations (9)
The remaining players come from a mix of other amateur/international competitions . At present they look to be shaping up as follows:
– Zhou Yuelong (IBSF Nomination)
– Lu Ning (2013 IBSF World Under 21 Champion)
– Mitchell Mann (2014 European Champion)
– Oliver Lines (2014 European U-21 Champion)
– Chuan Leong (ACBS Nomination)
– Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon (2014 Asian U-21 Champion)
– Hossein Vafaei Ayouri (Special dispensation, replacing the Americas Nomination)
– Steve Mifsud (Oceania Nomination)
– ? (Africa Nomination)