The official ranking system for snooker is a list that ranks players according to their performance in recent years. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association administers it. This listing will be updated for each ranking series. To be eligible for the World Snooker Tour a player must hold an current snooker world ranking. Players are seeded based on their ranking and performance in specific tournaments.
For the first 2 years, the snooker rankings were based only on the results from the three World Championships: UK Championship, World Open and Professional Players Tournament. The winner of each of these events was given one seed, and the runner-ups were given two. From 1976 through 1982, the World Championship was a ranking event. The International Open in 1982 became the fourth ranking tourney. As the competition grew, more tournaments were introduced.
This was the time when the World Championship's knockout format was reintroduced. This is considered to have been the start of modern snooker. Most records are now based on records that date back to 1969. There are currently 31 titles on this snooker rankings list.
Ray Reardon reigned supreme in snooker during the 1970s. He was the World Champion and won six Welsh amateur titles. He was the first to win a ranking event, the 1974 World Championship. He held the record for most ranking titles until Steve Davis broke it in 1998. However, he subsequently retired from snooker.
Stephen Hendry was one the most dominant players in the 1990s. He held the number 1 ranking for eight years straight and won seven world titles. Today, he is tied with Ronnie O'Sullivan for the all-time ranking titles list. After the 2012 championships, he will be retiring from snooker.
Judd Trump is the current world ranking snooker winner. He is also the snooker champion of the year. Despite this, he has not yet managed to break the top spot. He was just one points behind Mark Williams as of the beginning 2019. Both players will compete in the finals the 2020 UK Championships and Cazoo Masters.
Kyren Wilson is another big name in the rankings. He is a Premier League specialist. He is a sports tipter and enjoys playing in the NBA or MLB. He also loves to play MLB and NFL. In the last two seasons, he won four ranking finals and suffered two losses.
Mark Selby, a four-time world champion, has been eliminated in the quarter-final and semi-finals of the World Championship. Selby has also had to deal with some high-profile failures throughout his career.
The fourth Indian Open World Ranking Snooker Tournament is scheduled for September 12-16 in Visakhapatnam (India). A number of celebrities will be watching the action. Entry to the event is free.