2008/09 snooker season

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2008/09 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season June 4, 2008
End of season May 4, 2009
Ranked tournaments 8th
Invitation tournaments 2
number of players 96
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy
Masters EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
World Champion ScotlandScotland John Higgins
World ranking
Ranking first EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
← 2007/08
2009/10 →

The 2008-09 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Main Tour . In addition to titles and prize money, there were also world ranking points to be won in eight tournaments. There were also two invitation tournaments in which no points are awarded.

Compared to the previous season, the number of ranking tournaments has increased by one. In order to do justice to the increasing importance of the snooker sport in Asia, the Bahrain Championship was the first tournament in the Middle East. In the invitation tournaments, the Malta Cup and the Pot Black Cup were omitted, instead the Jiangsu Classic took place for the first time .

The season began on June 4, 2008 with the Jiangsu Classic and ended on May 4, 2009 with the World Championship Finals .

Season results

The following table shows the seasonal results.

date competition venue Art winner finalist Result
June 4 to June 8, 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Jiangsu Classic 2008 Nanjing Invitation tournament China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui EnglandEngland Mark Selby 6: 5
August 24 to August 31, 2008 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland Trophy 2008 Belfast World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland Dave Harold 9: 3
September 29th to October 5th, 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai Masters 2008 Shanghai World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Ricky Walden EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 10: 8
October 11th to October 19th, 2008 ScotlandScotland Grand Prix 2008 Glasgow World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 9: 7
November 8th to November 15th, 2008 BahrainBahrain Bahrain Championship 2008 Manama World ranking tournament AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens 9: 7
December 13th to December 21st, 2008 EnglandEngland UK Championship 2008 Telford World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 10: 9
January 11th to January 18th, 2009 EnglandEngland Masters 2009 London Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland Mark Selby 10: 8
February 16 to February 22, 2009 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Open 2009 Newport World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Allister Carter Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail 9: 5
March 30th to April 5th, 2009 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China Open 2009 Beijing World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon ScotlandScotland John Higgins 10: 8
April 18 to May 4, 2009 EnglandEngland World Championship 2009 Sheffield World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 18: 9

World ranking

The snooker world ranking is only updated after a completed season and takes into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best placed players in the 2008/09 season, based on the 2006/07 and 2007/08 results . 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 (5) 9 EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon (6) 17th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens (20) 25th EnglandEngland Ian McCulloch (28)
2 ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire (10) 10 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (7) 18th IrelandIreland Ken Doherty (4) 26th EnglandEngland Stephen Lee (13)
3 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy (3) 11 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui (9) 19th EnglandEngland Jamie Cope (22) 27 EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins (19)
4th EnglandEngland Mark Selby (11) 12 EnglandEngland Joe Perry (18) 20th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail (17) 28 EnglandEngland Dave Harold (30)
5 ScotlandScotland John Higgins (1) 13 ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott (2) 21st EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham (23) 29 EnglandEngland Steve Davis (15)
6th ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (8) 14th Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu (27) 22nd WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams (12) 30th IrelandIreland Michael Judge (34)
7th EnglandEngland Ali Carter (14) 15th EnglandEngland Mark King (21) 23 EnglandEngland Nigel Bond (25) 31 EnglandEngland Anthony Hamilton (26)
8th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day (16) 16 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen (29) 24 IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien (37) 32 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale (31)

Qualification for the main tour 2008/09

In addition to the 64 best-placed players in the world rankings at the end of the 2007/08 season, the remaining 32 starting places were awarded as follows:

Remaining on the main tour over the one-year ranking 2007/08
  1. EnglandEngland Jimmy White
  2. ScotlandScotland Scott MacKenzie
  3. EnglandEngland Lee Spick
  4. EnglandEngland Matthew Selt
  5. Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Patrick Wallace
  6. IrelandIreland Rodney Goggins
  7. ScotlandScotland James McBain
  8. ThailandThailand Supoj Saenla
Qualification via the PIOS tour 2007/08
  1. EnglandEngland Kuldesh Johal
  2. EnglandEngland Peter Lines
  3. EnglandEngland Simon Bedford
  4. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Jones
  5. EnglandEngland Matthew Couch
  6. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Daniel Wells
  7. EnglandEngland Paul Davison
  8. EnglandEngland Lewis Roberts
Qualification via international amateur championships
  1. ThailandThailand Atthasit Mahitthi ( IBSF Amateur World Champion )
  2. EnglandEngland Michael Georgiou ( IBSF U21 World Champion )
  3. EnglandEngland David Grace ( EBSA European Champion )
  4. EnglandEngland Stephen Craigie ( EBSA U19 European Champion )
  5. NetherlandsNetherlands Stefan Mazrocis ( EBSA International Play-Off )
  6. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Jin Long ( ACBS Asian Champion )
  7. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hang ( ACBS-U-21 Asian Champion )
  8. New ZealandNew Zealand Chris McBreen ( OBSF Oceania Runner-Up )
Qualification through national associations
  1. EnglandEngland Wayne Cooper (English Number 1)
  2. EnglandEngland Andy Lee (English Playoffs)
  3. ScotlandScotland Robert Stephen (Scottish nomination)
  4. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Andrew Pagett (Welsh nomination)
  5. IrelandIreland Vincent Muldoon (Irish nomination)
  6. Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Declan Hughes (Northern Irish Nomination)
  7. IndiaIndia Aditya Mehta (Asian nomination)
Qualification via WPBSA Wildcard
  1. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Chuang

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2008-9 Main Tour Players ( memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) globalsnookercentre.co.uk