2017/18 snooker season

2017/18 snooker season
Season dates
Beginning of the season	23rd June 2017
End of season	May 7, 2018
Ranked tournaments	17th
Invitation tournaments	8th
Pro / Am tournaments	2
number of players	131
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship	Ronnie O'Sullivan
Masters	Mark Allen
World Champion	Mark Williams
World ranking
Placements	2017/18
Ranking first	Mark Selby
← 2016/17 2018/19 →

The 2017/18 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that are part of the Main Tour .

Season results

For the season, 26 competitions were added to the tournament calendar. 19 events were world ranking tournaments, including the four tournaments of the Home Nations Series , two tournaments with amateur participation and the shoot-out tournament. The 7 invitation tournaments included the 6-Red World Championship, the Championship League and two team competitions.

date	competition	venue	Art	winner	finalist	Result
June 23 to June 25, 2017	Riga Masters 2017	Riga	World ranking tournament	Ryan Day	Stephen Maguire	5: 2
July 3 to July 9, 2017	World Cup 2017	Wuxi	Team competition	China A	England	4: 3
July 20 to July 23, 2017	Hong Kong Masters 2017	Hong Kong	Invitation tournament	Neil Robertson	Ronnie O'Sullivan	6: 3
July 28 to July 29, 2017	CVB International Challenge 2017	Shenzhen	Team competition	Great Britain	People's Republic of China	26: 9
August 16 to August 22, 2017	China Championship 2017	Guangzhou	World ranking tournament	Luca Brecel	Shaun Murphy	10: 5
August 23 to August 27, 2017	Paul Hunter Classic 2017	Fuerth	Pro-Am tournament	Michael White	Shaun Murphy	4: 2
September 4 to September 9, 2017	6-Red World Championship 2017	Bangkok	Invitation tournament	Mark Williams	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	8: 2
September 12 to September 16, 2017	Indian Open 2017	Visakhapatnam	World ranking tournament	John Higgins	Anthony McGill	5: 1
September 18 to September 24, 2017	World Open 2017	Yushan	World ranking tournament	Ding Junhui	Kyren Wilson	10: 3
October 2 to October 8, 2017	European Masters 2017	Lommel	World ranking tournament	Judd Trump	Stuart Bingham	9: 7
October 16 to October 22, 2017	English Open 2017	Barnsley	World ranking tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Kyren Wilson	9: 2
October 29 to November 5, 2017	International Championship 2017	Daqing	World ranking tournament	Mark Selby	Mark Allen	10: 7
November 6th to November 12th, 2017	Champion of Champions 2017	Coventry	Invitation tournament	Shaun Murphy	Ronnie O'Sullivan	10: 8
November 13th to November 18th, 2017	Shanghai Masters 2017	Shanghai	World ranking tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Judd Trump	10: 3
November 20 to November 26, 2017	Northern Ireland Open 2017	Belfast	World ranking tournament	Mark Williams	Yan Bingtao	9: 8
November 28th to December 10th, 2017	UK Championship 2017	York	World ranking tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Shaun Murphy	10: 5
December 11th to December 17th, 2017	Scottish Open 2017	Glasgow	World ranking tournament	Neil Robertson	Cao Yupeng	9: 8
January 14th to January 21st, 2018	The Masters 2018	London	Invitation tournament	Mark Allen	Kyren Wilson	10: 7
January 31 to February 4, 2018	German Masters 2018	Berlin	World ranking tournament	Mark Williams	Graeme Dott	9: 1
February 8 to February 11, 2018	Snooker Shoot-Out 2018	Watford	World ranking tournament	Michael Georgiou	Graeme Dott	67:56 1
February 19 to February 25, 2018	World Grand Prix 2018	Preston	World ranking tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Ding Junhui	10: 3
February 26 to March 4, 2018	Welsh Open 2018	Cardiff	World ranking tournament	John Higgins	Barry Hawkins	9: 7
March 7 to March 11, 2018	Gibraltar Open 2018	Gibraltar	Pro-Am tournament	Ryan Day	Cao Yupeng	4-0
March 14th to March 18th, 2018	Romanian Masters 2018	Bucharest	Invitation tournament	Ryan Day	Stuart Bingham	10: 8
March 19 to March 25, 2018	Players Championship 2018	Llandudno	World ranking tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Shaun Murphy	10: 4
January 2 to March 29, 2018	Championship League 2018	Coventry	Invitation tournament	John Higgins	Zhou Yuelong	3: 2
April 2 to April 8, 2018	China Open 2018	Beijing	World ranking tournament	Mark Selby	Barry Hawkins	11: 3
April 21 to May 7, 2018	World Snooker Championship 2018	Sheffield	World ranking tournament	Mark Williams	John Higgins	18:16

¹ Points played, as only one frame with a maximum time of 10 minutes was played.

Multisport events

date	competition	venue	discipline	gold	silver	bronze
July 26th to July 30th, 2017	World Games 2017	Wroclaw	Snooker singles	Kyren Wilson	Ali Carter	Soheil Vahedi
August 19 to August 30, 2017	Southeast Asian Games 2017	Kuala Lumpur	Snooker team	Singapore	Thailand	Malaysia
						Myanmar
			Snooker singles	Sakbieng Siththideth	Phaitoon Phonbun	Ko Htet
						Minalavong Suriya
September 19 to September 26, 2017	Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2017	Ashgabat	Six-Red-Snooker Singles	Yan Bingtao	Soheil Vahedi	Muhammad Sajjad
						Saleh Mohammadi
			Snooker team	Iran	Qatar	People's Republic of China
						Afghanistan
			Snooker singles	Zhao Xintong	Hossein Vafaei	Soheil Vahedi
						Zhou Yuelong

World ranking

→ Main article : World snooker ranking 2017/18

Player of the Main Tour 2017/18

In addition to the 64 best-placed players in the world rankings at the end of the 2016/17 season and 32 players who were eligible to start for two years in 2016, the following players were given a starting place for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons:

Qualification via the one-year ranking Akani Songsermsawad Rhys Clark Robin Hull Rod Lawler Ross Muir Nigel Bond Eden Sharav Ian Burns Qualification via the Q School ( tournament 1 , tournament 2 and combined ranking list) Lukas Kleckers Allan Taylor Billy Joe Castle Ashley Hugill Duane Jones Sanderson Lam Paul Davison Chen Zifan Zhang Yong Sean O'Sullivan Joe Swail Martin O'Donnell

Qualification via the EBSA Amateur Play Offs Gerard Greene Peter Lines Qualification via the CBSA China Tour Li Yuan Niu Zhuang International championships: Soheil Vahedi ( IBSF World Champion ) Xu Si ( IBSF U21 World Champion ) Chris Totten ( EBSA European Champion ) Alexander Ursenbacher ( EBSA U21 European Champion ) Lü Haotian ( ACBS Asian Champion ) Yuan Sijun ( ACBS U21 Asian Champion ) Basem Eltahhan ( ABSF African Champion ) Nominations from the national or continental associations Matthew Bolton (Oceania) Hamza Akbar ( America WPBSA) NN (Africa) Invitational Tour Card Jimmy White Ken Doherty

Prize money

The table shows an overview of the prize money distributed this season, which flowed into the world rankings . All amounts are in pounds .

round		Last 128	Last 64	Last 32	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Second	winner
		Places 1–64 vs. Seats 65–128
Riga Masters		0	1,000	2,000	4,000	6,000	15,000	25,000	50,000
Indian Open		0	2,000	4,000	6,000	10,000	15,000	25,000	50,000
China Championship		0	4,000	7,000	12,000	18,000	32,000	75,000	150,000
World Open		0	4,000	7,000	12,000	18,000	32,000	75,000	150,000
International Championship		0	4,000	8,500	13,500	21,500	32,000	75,000	150,000
Shanghai Masters		0	4,000	7,000	12,000	18,000	32,000	75,000	150,000
UK Championship		0	5,000	10,000	15,000	22,500	35,000	75,000	170,000
German Masters		0	2,000	4,000	5,000	10,000	20,000	35,000	80,000
European Masters		0	2,000	4,000	6,000	11,000	17,500	35,000	75,000
English Open		0	2,500	3,500	6,000	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
Northern Ireland Open		0	2,500	3,500	6,000	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
Scottish Open		0	2,500	3,500	6,000	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
Welsh Open		0	2,500	3,500	6,000	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
China Open		0	5,000	11,000	18,000	27,000	45,000	90,000	225,000
Snooker shoot-out		250 1	500	1,000	2,000	4,000	8,000	16,000	32,000
Paul Hunter Classic		0	600	1,000	1,725	3,000	4,500	10,000	20,000
Gibraltar Open		0	1,000	2,000	3,000	4,000	6,000	12,000	25,000
Players Championship		-	-	-	10,000	15,000	30,000	50,000	125,000
World Grand Prix		-	-	5,000	7,500	12,500	20,000	40,000	100,000
round	Last 144	Last 80	Last 48	Last 32	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Second	winner
	Seats 17–80 vs. Seats 81–144	Winner last 144 against each other	Winner last 80 against each other	Places 1–16 vs. Winner Last 48
World Snooker Championship	0	9,000	13,500	18,000 2	27,500	42,500	85,000	180,000	425,000

¹ The prize money does not count towards the ranking.

² For seeded players who lost their first game, the prize money was not counted towards the ranking.

Web links

• Tour season 2017/2018

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1. ↑ Calendar 2017/2018. (PDF; 402 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , October 3, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 .  
2. ^ O'Sullivan And Ding Lead Teams For New International Challenge. World Snooker, July 11, 2017, accessed July 12, 2017 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Pro-Am tournaments are tournaments of the main tour for professional players, for which amateurs can also register and qualify. The prize money is lower than in pure professional world ranking tournaments, but for the Main Tour players it is also included in the calculation of the world ranking list.
4. ↑ The preliminary round groups of the Championship League were played from January 2nd to 5th, 8th to 11th and January 23rd to 26th and on March 26th and 27th, 2018, the final winners' group was on March 28th and 29th carried out.
5. ↑ Matt Huart: Tour Players 2017/18. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , May 22, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017 .  
6. ^ Bolton accepted for Main Tour. Oceania Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed April 16, 2017 .  
7. ↑ Since there was again no American nomination this year because the "All American Championship" was not played, the WPBSA awarded the place to Hamza Akbar. Hamza Akbar - Tour Card. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , accessed April 21, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Holders of an “Invitational tour card” are entitled to play on the main tour. You only take part in tournaments if there are enough free places.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Jimmy White and Ken Doherty given tour cards by World Snooker. BBC-online April 14, 2017, archived from the original April 15, 2017 ; accessed on April 15, 2017 (English).  
10. ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2017/2018 Season. (PDF; 176 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , October 3, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 .