The newest snooker rankings replace follows the conclusion of the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, the 2025/26 season’s second rating occasion.
Neil Robertson gained his twenty sixth profession rating title courtesy of a 10-9 victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan in an exhilarating finale on the Inexperienced Halls in Jeddah.
The Australian led 7-2 solely to see his esteemed opponent battle again to maneuver 9-8 in entrance, however Robertson prevailed with breaks of 101 and 87 to clinch it.
With prize cash matching the hefty sums on supply on the World Snooker Championship, the Saudi Arabia Masters supplied gamers with alternatives to make large strikes within the rankings lists.
Let’s briefly contact on how the motion over the past week or so has affected the 2 foremost standings.
Prime 16
There was various motion inside the highest 16, though there are not any new additions to the elite bracket.
Regardless of dropping in his first spherical (the final 32), Judd Trump stays in prime spot with an enormous lead of just about £630,000 to Kyren Wilson in second.
Neil Robertson’s largest ever payday of £500,000 sees the Australian rise again to quantity three on the rolling two-year record.
It’s fairly a turnaround for the 43 year-old, who this time final 12 months entered the inaugural Saudi Arabia Masters with a rating exterior the highest 16.
The £200,000 runner-up prize has Ronnie O’Sullivan returning to the highest 4 forward of Mark Williams and John Higgins, who each drop two rungs on the ladder.
Ding Junhui, Barry Hawkins, Mark Selby, and reigning world champion Zhao Xintong full the highest ten.
Under that’s Mark Allen, who has numerous factors to defend this time period and is provisionally down at quantity 20 on the end-of-season rankings.
Zhang Anda is in twelfth forward of Chris Wakelin, whose spectacular run to the semi-finals sees him advance three spots.
Xiao Guodong determined to skip Saudi in favour of competing on the World Video games, the place he gained a gold medal for China.
The 36 year-old drops to 14th however stays in entrance of compatriot Si Jiahui and reigning Masters champion Shaun Murphy.
Quarter-finalist Ali Carter misses out on a return to the highest 16 by simply £3,600, in the meantime.
Different Movers
Elliot Slessor was probably the most important mover exterior the highest 16 with the Englishman benefiting from his semi-final windfall of £100,000.
The 31 year-old gained 4 matches on the spin in deciding frames to achieve the final 4 of a rating occasion for the fifth time in his profession.
Though he’ll be upset to have missed out on a maiden closing, Slessor has made new floor within the official rankings and rises to a career-high 23 on the earth.
Elsewhere Oliver Traces is nearing a place contained in the world’s prime 64 after incomes £30,000 for that includes on the last-16 stage of the competitors.
The Leeds potter is as much as quantity 66 and, with no factors to defend this season, seems in fine condition to problem for a top-50 berth for the primary time in his profession later this time period.
| Official 2-Yr World Rankings | Aug 17, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judd Trump | £1,978,200 |
| 2 | Kyren Wilson | £1,348,300 |
| 3 | Neil Robertson | £1,047,050 |
| 4 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £940,000 |
| 5 | Mark Williams | £885,600 |
| 6 | John Higgins | £781,250 |
| 7 | Ding Junhui | £636,000 |
| 8 | Barry Hawkins | £590,050 |
| 9 | Mark Selby | £588,000 |
| 10 | Zhao Xintong | £540,000 |
| 11 | Mark Allen | £522,900 |
| 12 | Zhang Anda | £496,550 |
| 13 | Chris Wakelin | £481,400 |
| 14 | Xiao Guodong | £461,000 |
| 15 | Si Jiahui | £446,200 |
| 16 | Shaun Murphy | £432,900 |
| — | — | — |
| 17 | Ali Carter | £429,300 |
| 18 | Gary Wilson | £374,900 |
| 19 | Wu Yize | £365,600 |
| 20 | Tom Ford | £359,950 |
| 21 | Stuart Bingham | £356,900 |
| 22 | Jak Jones | £332,800 |
| 23 | Elliot Slessor | £321,750 |
| 24 | David Gilbert | £312,650 |
| 25 | Hossein Vafaei | £293,300 |
| 26 | Stephen Maguire | £280,750 |
| 27 | Joe O’Connor | £265,750 |
| 28 | Jack Lisowski | £260,600 |
| 29 | Pang Junxu | £258,400 |
| 30 | Yuan Sijun | £231,600 |
| 31 | Lei Peifan | £210,000 |
| 32 | Zhou Yuelong | £208,050 |
1-year snooker rankings
As has develop into frequent in the previous few years, the one-year snooker rankings record will decide qualification to some occasions within the second half of the season.
The highest 32 will qualify for the World Grand Prix, the highest 16 will then take part on the Gamers Championship, earlier than a 12-strong discipline will ultimately assemble for the Tour Championship.
Unsurprisingly, Robertson has taken the entrance and is already assured to characteristic in all three of these profitable tournaments.
O’Sullivan instantly rises to second forward of Saudi Arabia Masters semi-finalists Slessor and Wakelin.
Championship League Snooker winner Stephen Maguire, who misplaced to Ding Junhui within the final 32, drops to fifth.
Ali Carter, Barry Hawkins, Kyren Wilson, Mark Williams, and Joe O’Connor full the highest ten.
There are just a few high-profile names who’re at present ranked exterior the highest 32.
Most notably, Judd Trump, John Higgins, and Xiao Guodong have didn’t accumulate any rating factors to date this time period.
It’s nonetheless early days, although, with loads of rating occasions to come back in the course of the the rest of the calendar 12 months.
Traces, Chang Bingyu, Farakh Ajaib, Iulian Boiko, and Steven Hallworth are among the many lower-ranked gamers on the official two-year record who’re positioned impressively on the one-year record because of their sturdy efforts in Jeddah.
Notice: Rating factors earned from the Wuhan Open and British Open qualifiers are provisional and haven’t been included within the beneath record.
| 1-Yr Snooker Rankings | Aug 17, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neil Robertson | £500,000 |
| 2 | Ronnie O’Sullivan | £200,000 |
| 3 | Elliot Slessor | £106,000 |
| 4 | Chris Wakelin | £104,000 |
| 5 | Stephen Maguire | £53,000 |
| =6 | Ali Carter | £52,000 |
| =6 | Barry Hawkins | £52,000 |
| =8 | Kyren Wilson | £50,000 |
| =8 | Mark Williams | £50,000 |
| 10 | Joe O’Connor | £43,000 |
| 11 | Stuart Bingham | £34,000 |
| =12 | Chang Bingyu | £32,000 |
| =12 | Si Jiahui | £32,000 |
| 14 | Oliver Traces | £31,000 |
| =15 | Shaun Murphy | £30,000 |
| =15 | Ding Junhui | £30,000 |
| =15 | Mark Selby | £30,000 |
| =15 | Zhao Xintong | £30,000 |
| =19 | Wu Yize | £25,000 |
| =19 | Yuan Sijun | £25,000 |
| 21 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | £24,000 |
| =22 | Ben Woollaston | £22,000 |
| =22 | Gary Wilson | £22,000 |
| =22 | Lengthy Zehuang | £22,000 |
| =22 | Martin O’Donnell | £22,000 |
| 26 | Farakh Ajaib | £21,000 |
| =27 | Iulian Boiko | £20,000 |
| =27 | Steven Hallworth | £20,000 |
| 29 | Pang Junxu | £20,000 |
| 30 | Ben Mertens | £18,000 |
| 31 | Matthew Stevens | £17,000 |
| =32 | David Gilbert | £16,000 |
| — | — | — |
| =32 | Jack Lisowski | £16,000 |
| =32 | Sam Craigie | £16,000 |
| =125 | John Higgins | £0 |
| =125 | Judd Trump | £0 |
What’s the subsequent snooker occasion?
There’s a week’s respite on the World Snooker Tour earlier than the subsequent rating on the calendar.
The 2025 Wuhan Open is scheduled to happen from August twenty fourth to August thirtieth with Xiao Guodong defending his maiden rating crown in China.
The opening occasion on the European Q Tour collection is in Stockholm from August twenty eighth to August thirty first.
Elsewhere, the brand new season on the World Girls’s Snooker Tour will start quickly with the UK Girls’s Championship on the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds from August twenty ninth to August thirty first.
Extra information updates on all of those snooker occasions will likely be out there right here on SnookerHQ.com within the coming weeks.
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