2009/10 snooker season

2009/10 snooker season
Season dates
Beginning of the season	June 4, 2009
End of season	May 3, 2010
Ranked tournaments	6th
Invitation tournaments	2
number of players	96
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship	Ding Junhui
Masters	Mark Selby
World Champion	Neil Robertson
World ranking
Ranking first	Ronnie O'Sullivan
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The 2009/10 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Main Tour .

In addition to titles and prize money, points were also awarded for the world snooker ranking in six tournaments . There were also two invitation tournaments in which no points are generally awarded.

Compared to the previous season, the number of ranked tournaments was down by two. The Bahrain Championship , which had just been established in the preseason, was canceled again , and the Northern Ireland Trophy also disappeared from the tour calendar after three years of membership in the ranking tournaments.

The season began on June 4, 2009 with the Jiangsu Classic and ended on May 3, 2010 with the World Championship Finals .

Season results

date	competition	venue	Art	winner	finalist	Result
June 4th to June 7th, 2009	Jiangsu Classic 2009	Wuxi	Invitation tournament	Mark Allen	Ding Junhui	6-0
September 7th to September 13th, 2009	Shanghai Masters 2009	Shanghai	World ranking tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Liang Wenbo	10: 5
October 3 to October 11, 2009	Grand Prix 2009	Glasgow	World ranking tournament	Neil Robertson	Ding Junhui	9: 4
December 5 to December 13, 2009	UK Championship 2009	Telford	World ranking tournament	Ding Junhui	John Higgins	10: 8
January 10th to January 17th, 2010	Masters 2010	London	Invitation tournament	Mark Selby	Ronnie O'Sullivan	10: 9
January 25 to January 31, 2010	Welsh Open 2010	Newport	World ranking tournament	John Higgins	Allister Carter	9: 4
March 29 to April 4, 2010	China Open 2010	Beijing	World ranking tournament	Mark Williams	Ding Junhui	10: 6
April 17th to May 3rd, 2010	World Championship 2010	Sheffield	World ranking tournament	Neil Robertson	Graeme Dott	18:13

World ranking

The snooker world ranking is only updated after each completed season and takes into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best placed players in the 2009/10 season, based on the 2007/08 and 2008/09 results . The previous year's position is given in brackets.

Place 1 - 8		Place 9 - 16		17th - 24th place		Place 25 - 32
01	Ronnie O'Sullivan (1)	09	Neil Robertson (10)	17th	Barry Hawkins (27)	25th	Stephen Lee (26)
02	Stephen Maguire (2)	10	Stephen Hendry (6)	18th	Jamie Cope (19)	26th	Matthew Stevens (17)
03	Shaun Murphy (3)	11	Mark Allen (16)	19th	Dave Harold (28)	27	Liang Wenbo (40)
04th	John Higgins (5)	12	Joe Perry (12)	20th	Ricky Walden (35)	28	Graeme Dott (13)
05	Allister Carter (7)	13	Ding Junhui (11)	21st	Stuart Bingham (21)	29	Nigel Bond (23)
06th	Ryan Day (8)	14th	Peter Ebdon (9)	22nd	Joe Swail (20)	30th	Judd Trump (41)
07th	Mark Selby (4)	15th	Mark Williams (22)	23	Steve Davis (29)	31	Fergal O'Brien (24)
08th	Marco Fu (14)	16	Mark King (15)	24	Michael Holt (34)	32	Gerard Greene (33)

Qualification for the main tour 2009/10

In addition to the 64 best-placed players in the world rankings at the end of the 2008/09 season, the other 32 starting places were awarded as follows:

Remaining on the main tour via the one-year ranking 2008/09 Matthew Selt Matthew Couch Lee Spick Daniel Wells Li Hang Simon Bedford Patrick Wallace Atthasit Mahitthi Qualification via the PIOS tour 2008/09 Xiao Guodong Lee Page Bjorn Haneveer Stephen Rowlings Ben Woollaston Noppadol Sangnil Craig Steadman Chris Norbury

Qualification via international amateur championships Thepchaiya Un-Nooh ( IBSF Amateur World Champion ) David Hogan ( EBSA European Champion ) Tony Drago ( EBSA International Play-Off ) James Wattana ( ACBS Asian Champion ) Zhang Anda ( ACBS-U-21 Asian Champion ) Qualification through national associations Jimmy Robertson (English Number 1) Sam Baird (English Playoffs) Mark Boyle (Scottish Nomination) Michael White (Welsh nomination) Brendan O'Donoghue (Irish nomination) Jordan Brown (Northern Irish nomination) Mei Xiwen (Asian nomination) Qualification via WPBSA Wildcard Ian Preece David Gray Andrew Norman Joe Jogia

Web links

• Results of the Main Tour tournaments (on www.snooker.org )
• World ranking list 2009/10 (on www.snooker.org )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Snooker Tour Players 2009/10 at global-snooker.com ( Memento from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ The Tour 2009/2010 Season Provisional Qualifying Criteria . In: worldsnooker.com . Archived from the original on October 31, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
3. ↑ PIOS 2008/09 Rankings . Global snooker. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
4. ^ World Snooker Championship, Wels, Austria . International Billiards and Snooker Federation . Archived from the original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved on July 10, 2012.
5. ↑ European Snooker Championships 2009 play-off results . European Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2012. 
6. ↑ 2009 EBSA International Open . Global snooker. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
7. ↑ 25th Asian Snooker Championship 2009 . Cue Sports India. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
8. ↑ 10th Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship 2009 . Cue Sports India. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
9. ↑ Tame Wildcards Announced . Global snooker. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
10. ↑ Although Joe Jogia achieved first place on the PIOS tour in 2008/09, he needed the wildcard because he was not a member of his national association.