2005/06 snooker season

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2005/06 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season August 17, 2005
End of season May 1, 2006
Ranked tournaments 6th
Non-ranking 1
Invitation tournaments 3
number of players 96
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui
Masters ScotlandScotland John Higgins
World Champion ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott
World ranking
Ranking first EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
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The 2005/06 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Main Tour . It consisted of ten competitions: In six world ranking tournaments, in addition to titles and prize money, world ranking points were awarded, there were also three invitation tournaments and one non-ranking tournament.

The British Open was not on the tournament calendar for the first time in 21 years . The Irish Masters as well as the Merseyside Professional were also canceled after three years as a ranking tournament . For this, the Northern Ireland Trophy was held in Belfast for the first time , which also opened the season on August 17, 2005. It also had the status of an invitation tournament like the Pot Black Cup , which was revived after a long break. In this cup, however, it was only a one-day show tournament, in which a decision was made in a single frame about progress or tournament victory. The Irish Professional Championship was also revived, but only Irish and Northern Irish players could participate. The season traditionally ended on May 1, 2006 with the final of the World Cup.

Season results

The following table shows the final results of this season.

date competition venue Art winner finalist Result
August 17 to August 21, 2005 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland Trophy 2005 Belfast Invitation tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 9: 7
October 8 to October 16, 2005 EnglandEngland Grand Prix 2005 Preston World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9: 2
October 22 to October 26, 2005 IrelandIreland Irish Professional Championship 2005 Templelogue Non-ranking tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 9: 7
October 29, 2005 EnglandEngland Pot Black Cup London Invitation tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 1: 0 (53:27)
December 5 to December 18, 2005 EnglandEngland UK Championship 2005 York World ranking tournament China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui EnglandEngland Steve Davis 10: 6
January 15 to January 22, 2006 EnglandEngland Masters 2006 Wembley Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 10: 9
January 30th to February 5th, 2006 MaltaMalta Malta Cup 2006 Portomaso World ranking tournament IrelandIreland Ken Doherty ScotlandScotland John Higgins 9: 8
February 27 to March 5, 2006 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Open 2006 Newport World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Stephen Lee EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 9: 4
March 19 to March 26, 2006 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China Open 2006 Beijing World ranking tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark J. Williams ScotlandScotland John Higgins 9: 8
April 15 to May 1, 2006 EnglandEngland World Championship 2006 Sheffield World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 18:14

World ranking

The snooker world ranking is only updated after each full season and takes into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best placed players in the 2005/06 season, based on the results from 2003/04 and 2004/05 . The previous year's position is given in brackets.

Place 1 - 8 Place 9 - 16 17th - 24th place Place 25 - 32
1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) 9 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams (2) 17th EnglandEngland Anthony Hamilton (25) 25th Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu (16)
2 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (3) 10 EnglandEngland Stephen Lee (9) 18th EnglandEngland Barry Pinches (21) 26th EnglandEngland Robert Milkins (28)
3 ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire (24) 11 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty (7) 19th EnglandEngland Ali Carter (19) 27 EnglandEngland Nigel Bond (35)
4th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens (6) 12 ScotlandScotland Alan McManus (10) 20th EnglandEngland Mark King (23) 28 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (68)
5 EnglandEngland Paul Hunter (4) 13 ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott (15) 21st EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy (48) 29 EnglandEngland John Parrott (31)
6th ScotlandScotland John Higgins (5) 14th EnglandEngland Joe Perry (20) 22nd AustraliaAustralia Quinten Hann (18) 30th EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins (43)
7th EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon (8) 15th EnglandEngland Steve Davis (13) 23 EnglandEngland David Gray (14) 31 EnglandEngland Andy Hicks (51)
8th EnglandEngland Jimmy White (11) 16 EnglandEngland Ian McCulloch (17) 24 EnglandEngland Michael Holt (29) 32 ThailandThailand James Wattana (33)

Qualification for the main tour 2005/06

In addition to the 64 best-placed players in the world rankings at the end of the 2004/05 season - with the players Chris Small , Nick Walker and Anthony Davies resigning - the remaining 35 starting places were allocated as follows:

Remaining on the main tour over the one-year ranking 2004/05
  1. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Paul Davies
  2. EnglandEngland Sean Storey
  3. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan
  4. ScotlandScotland Scott MacKenzie
  5. EnglandEngland Alfie Burden
  6. IrelandIreland Leo Fernandez
  7. IrelandIreland Joe Delaney
  8. EnglandEngland Andrew Norman
  9. EnglandEngland Paul Wykes
  10. IrelandIreland David McDonnell
  11. EnglandEngland Adam Davies
  12. EnglandEngland Gary Wilson
  13. EnglandEngland Nick Dyson
  14. ScotlandScotland Hugh Abernethy
  15. BelgiumBelgium Bjorn Haneveer
  16. EnglandEngland Gary Wilkinson
  17. EnglandEngland Steve James
Qualification via the Challenge Tour 2004/05
  1. EnglandEngland Jamie Cope
  2. EnglandEngland Lee Spick
  3. EnglandEngland Justin Astley
  4. EnglandEngland Matthew Couch
  5. EnglandEngland Chris Norbury
  6. EnglandEngland James Tatton
  7. EnglandEngland Stuart Mann
  8. EnglandEngland David Gilbert
  9. ScotlandScotland James McBain
Qualification via international amateur championships
  1. Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen ( IBSF World Champion )
  2. EnglandEngland Gary Wilson ( IBSF U21 World Champion )
  3. MaltaMalta Alex Borg ( EBSA European Champion )
  4. EnglandEngland Chris Norbury ( EBSA-U19-Vice European Champion )
  5. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Jin Long ( ACBS Asian Champion )
  6. MalaysiaMalaysia Moh Keen Hoo ( ACBS U21 Asian Champion )
Qualification via WPBSA Wildcard
  1. EnglandEngland Judd Trump
  2. BahrainBahrain Habib Subah
  3. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Wenbo

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2005-6 Main Tour Players ( Memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) globalsnookercentre.co.uk