Following my post last week confirming the route onto the main tour for wannabe professionals for 2013/14, it is time for my annual ‘roll call’ post, to track how all of the tour places will be filled.
Click below for the latest breakdown and summary as to how the 133 will be made up…
Updated 12/05/2013
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.
(End of season rankings as of 06/05/2013)
1 Mark Selby
2 Neil Robertson
3 Judd Trump
4 Shaun Murphy
5 Stephen Maguire
6 Stuart Bingham
7 Mark Allen
8 Ricky Walden
9 Barry Hawkins
10 Ding Junhui
11 John Higgins
12 Graeme Dott
13 Mark Davis
14 Matthew Stevens
15 Mark Williams
16 Ali Carter
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17 Marco Fu
18 Robert Milkins
19 Ronnie O’Sullivan
20 Joe Perry
21 Stephen Lee
22 Andrew Higginson
23 Dominic Dale
24 Tom Ford
25 Martin Gould
26 Michael Holt
27 Ken Doherty
28 Marcus Campbell
29 Mark King
30 Peter Ebdon
31 Ryan Day
32 Liang Wenbo
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33 Ben Woollaston
34 Michael White
35 Jack Lisowski
36 Fergal O’Brien
37 Xiao Guodong
38 Jamie Cope
39 Jamie Burnett
40 Jamie Jones
41 David Gilbert
42 Mark Joyce
43 Anthony Hamilton
44 Matt Selt
45 Rory McLeod
46 Nigel Bond
47 Yu Delu
48 Anthony McGill
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49 Alan McManus
50 Dave Harold
51 Steve Davis
52 Jimmy Robertson
53 Alfie Burden
54 Liu Chuang
55 Jimmy White
56 Gerard Greene
57 Peter Lines
58 Stephen Hendry
59 Rod Lawler
60 Adam Duffy
61 James Wattana
62 Barry Pinches
63 Mike Dunn
64 Kurt Maflin
The Two Year Cards (32)
These players competed on the main tour in 2012/13 and will start the 2013/14 season on the second year of their two-year tour cards.
- Cao Yupeng
- Dechawat Poomjaeng
- Ian Burns
- Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- Tian Pengfei
- Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon
- Luca Brecel
- Aditya Mehta
- Pankaj Advani
- Paul Davison
- Liam Highfield
- Zhang Anda
- Chen Zhe
- Robbie Williams
- Michael Wasley
- Sam Baird
- Tony Drago
- Craig Steadman
- Li Yan
- Simon Bedford
- Martin O’Donnell
- Daniel Wells
- David Grace
- Scott Donaldson
- Joel Walker
- Sean O’Sullivan
- Passakorn Suwannawat
- Jamie O’Neill
- Michael Leslie
- Ben Judge
- Mohamed Khairy
- Hossein Vafaei Ayouri
The PTC 8 (Top Eight on the PTC Order of Merit, Not Already On Tour)
These are the top eight players on the 2012/13 PTC Order of Merit, not already on the tour via the two year points list
- Joe Swail
- Andrew Pagett
- Gary Wilson
- Andrew Norman
- John Astley
- Allan Taylor
- Kyren Wilson
- Chris Norbury
The Q School (12)
Then a further 12 will be promoted from the Q School and these are as follows:
– Elliot Slessor (2013 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Alex Davies (2013 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Lee Page (2013 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Hammad Miah (2013 Q School Event One semi-finalist)
– Ryan Clark (2013 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Alexander Ursenbacher (2013 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Ahmed Saif (2013 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– Ross Muir (2013 Q School Event Two semi-finalist)
– David Morris (2013 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
– Lee Spick (2013 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
– Fraser Patrick (2013 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
– Chris Wakelin (2013 Q School Event Three semi-finalist)
EBSA Play-Offs (3)
Three more qualified via the EBSA Play-Offs:
- Jak Jones
- Stuart Carrington
- Patrick Einsle
APTC Order of Merit (4)
The four APTC qualifiers are:
- Li Hang
- Jin Long
- Shi Hanqing
- Cao Xinlong
International Nominations (9)
The remaining players come from a mix of other amateur/international competitions . At present that looks to be shaping up as follows:
– Alex Borg (IBSF Nomination)
– Lyu Haotian (2012 IBSF World Under 21 Champion)
– Robin Hull (2013 European Champion)
– James Cahill (2013 European U-21 Champion)
– Ratchayothin Yotharuck (ACBS Nomination)
– Noppon Saengkham (2013 Asian U-21 Champion)
– Igor Figueiredo (Americas Nomination) – source
– Vinnie Calabrese (Oceania Nomination) – source
– ? (Africa Nomination)