2019/20 snooker season

2019/20 snooker season
Season dates
Beginning of the season	June 24, 2019
End of season	August 16, 2020
Ranked tournaments	16
Invitation tournaments	8th
Pro / Am tournaments	1
number of players	128
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship	Ding Junhui
Masters	Stuart Bingham
World Champion	Ronnie O'Sullivan
World ranking
Placements	2019/20
Ranking first	Ronnie O'Sullivan Judd Trump
← 2018/19 2020/21 →

The 2019/20 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that are part of the Main Tour .

Season results

After the exact composition was incomplete at the beginning of the season, the 2019/2020 coronavirus epidemic had an impact on the season in the final phase . The China Open was planned in the Chinese capital Beijing from March 30th to April 5th, 2020 . After the virus emerged in the country in early 2020, the WPBSA and World Snooker Tour announced in late January that the China Open would be postponed. In March, the pandemic reached Europe and resulted in the crowd being locked out at the Gibraltar Open . Thereafter, the game was suspended indefinitely.

The season resumed on June 1st. To this end, another edition of the Championship League has been rescheduled with a modified mode through various protective measures and rules of conduct. The outstanding Tour Championship and the World Championship were held on. New dates were set for this in June as well as in July and August. The China Open, however, were canceled.

date	competition	venue	Art	winner	finalist	Result
June 24th to 30th, 2019	World Cup 2019	Wuxi	Team competition	Scotland	People's Republic of China	4-0
July 26th to 28th, 2019	Riga Masters 2019	Riga	World ranking tournament	Yan Bingtao	Mark Joyce	5: 2
4th to 11th August 2019	International Championship 2019	Daqing	World ranking tournament	Judd Trump	Shaun Murphy	10: 3
24./25. August 2019	Paul Hunter Classic 2019	Fuerth	Invitation tournament	Barry Hawkins	Kyren Wilson	4: 3
September 2nd to 7th, 2019	6-Red World Championship 2019	Bangkok	Invitation tournament	Stephen Maguire	John Higgins	8: 6
September 9th to 15th, 2019	Shanghai Masters 2019	Shanghai	Invitation tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Shaun Murphy	11: 9
September 23-29, 2019	China Championship 2019	Guangzhou	World ranking tournament	Shaun Murphy	Mark Williams	10: 9
October 14-20, 2019	English Open 2019	Crawley	World ranking tournament	Mark Selby	David Gilbert	9: 1
October 28th to November 3rd, 2019	World Open 2019	Yushan	World ranking tournament	Judd Trump	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	10: 5
4th to 10th November 2019	Champion of Champions 2019	Coventry	Invitation tournament	Neil Robertson	Judd Trump	10: 9
November 11th to 17th, 2019	Northern Ireland Open 2019	Belfast	World ranking tournament	Judd Trump	Ronnie O'Sullivan	9: 7
November 26th to December 8th, 2019	UK Championship 2019	York	World ranking tournament	Ding Junhui	Stephen Maguire	10: 6
9th to 15th December 2019	Scottish Open 2019	Glasgow	World ranking tournament	Mark Selby	Jack Lisowski	9: 6
January 12th to 19th, 2020	The Masters 2020	London	Invitation tournament	Stuart Bingham	Ali Carter	10: 8
January 22nd to 26th, 2020	European Masters 2020	Dornbirn	World ranking tournament	Neil Robertson	Zhou Yuelong	9-0
January 29th to February 2nd, 2020	German Masters 2020	Berlin	World ranking tournament	Judd Trump	Neil Robertson	9: 6
February 3 to 9, 2020	World Grand Prix 2020	Cheltenham	World ranking tournament	Neil Robertson	Graeme Dott	10: 8
February 10-16, 2020	Welsh Open 2020	Cardiff	World ranking tournament	Shaun Murphy	Kyren Wilson	9: 1
February 20-23, 2020	Snooker Shoot-Out 2020	Watford	World ranking tournament	Michael Holt	Zhou Yuelong	64: 1 1
February 24th to March 1st, 2020	Players Championship 2020	Southport	World ranking tournament	Judd Trump	Yan Bingtao	10: 4
October 7, 2019 to March 5, 2020	Championship League 2019/20	Leicester	Invitation tournament	Scott Donaldson	Graeme Dott	3-0
March 13-15, 2020	Gibraltar Open 2020	Gibraltar	Pro-Am tournament 2	Judd Trump	Kyren Wilson	4: 3
June 1st to 11th, 2020	Championship League 2020	Milton Keynes	Invitation tournament	Luca Brecel	- 3
June 20-26, 2020	Tour Championship 2020	Milton Keynes	World ranking tournament	Stephen Maguire	Mark Allen	10: 6
July 31 to August 16, 2020	World Snooker Championship 2020	Sheffield	World ranking tournament	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Kyren Wilson	18: 8

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

²A Pro-Am tournament is a tournament on 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.

³ The tournament was not decided in a final, but in a group of 4 players.

Multisport events

date	competition	venue	discipline	gold	silver	bronze
August 20th to 24th, 2019	African Games 2019	Casablanca	Women singles	Youssra Matine	Gantan el-Askary	Hakima Kissai
			Mixed doubles	Yassine Bellamine Hakima Kissai	Amine Amiri Youssra Matine	Mohamed al-Akrady Yara Sharafeldin
			Men singles	Amine Amiri	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid	Yassine Bellamine
3rd to 10th December 2019	Southeast Asian Games 2019	Manila	Men doubles	Moh Keen Hoo Kok Leong Lim	Alvin Barbero Jefrey Roda	Kingsley Ang Lim Chun Kiat
						Ko Htet Thet Min Lin
			Men singles	Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn	Moh Keen Hoo	Sakbieng Siththideth
						Jefrey Roda

World ranking

→ Main article : World snooker ranking 2019/20

Main Tour players 2019/20

In addition to the 64 best-placed players in the world rankings at the end of the 2018/19 season and 29 players who were eligible to start for two years in 2018, the following players were given a starting place for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons:

Qualification via the one-year ranking Eden Sharav James Cahill Ian Burns Duane Jones Dominic Dale Gerard Greene Rod Lawler Nigel Bond Qualification via the World Snooker Challenge Tour Brandon Sargeant David Grace Qualification via the CBSA China Tour Chang Bingyu Bai Langning International championships: Kacper Filipiak ( EBSA European Champion ) Jackson Page ( EBSA U21 European Champion ) Steve Mifsud ( OBSF Oceania Champion ) Igor Figueiredo ( PABSA American Champion ) Amine Amiri ( African Games 2019 )

Qualification via the Q School ( Tournament 1 , Tournament 2 , Tournament 3 and Order of Merit) Xu Si David Lilley Jamie O'Neill Soheil Vahedi Chen Zifan Riley Parsons Louis Heathcote Fraser Patrick Barry Pinches Alex Borg Alexander Ursenbacher Andy Hicks Si Jiahui Billy Joe Castle Peter Lines Peifan Lei World Snooker Tour Card Mitchell Mann (third place on Challenge Tour ) Invitational Tour Card Jimmy White

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	2,000	3,000	4,000	6,000	15,000	25,000	50,000
International Championship			0	4,750	8,500	13,500	21,500	32,000	75,000	175,000
China Championship			0	4,750	7,500	13,000	20,000	32,000	75,000	150,000
English Open			0	3,000	4,000	7,500	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
World Open			0	5,000	8,000	13,500	20,000	32,500	75,000	150,000
Northern Ireland Open			0	3,000	4,000	7,500	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
UK Championship			0	6,500	12,000	17,000	24,500	40,000	80,000	200,000
Scottish Open			0	3,000	4,000	7,500	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
European Masters			0	3,000	4,000	6,000	11,000	17,500	35,000	80,000
German Masters			0	3,000	4,000	5,000	10,000	20,000	35,000	80,000
World Grand Prix			-	-	5,000 1	7,500	12,500	20,000	40,000	100,000
Welsh Open			0	3,000	4,000	7,500	10,000	20,000	30,000	70,000
Snooker shoot-out			250 1	500	1,000	2,000	4,000	8,000	20,000	50,000
Players Championship			-	-	-	10,000 1	15,000	30,000	50,000	125,000
Gibraltar Open			0	2,000	3,000	4,000	5,000	6,000	20,000	50,000
Tour Championship			-	-	-	-	20,000 1	40,000	60,000	150,000
round	Last 144	Last 112	Last 80	Last 48	Last 32	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Second	winner
	Places 81–112 vs. Seats 113–144	Winner Last 144 vs. Seats 49-80	Winner Last 112 vs. Seats 17–48	Winner last 80 against each other	Places 1–16 vs. Winner Last 48
World Snooker Championship	0	5,000 2	10,000 2	15,000	20,000 2	30,000	50,000	100,000	200,000	500,000

¹ The prize money did not count towards the ranking.

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

See also

• Challenge Tour 2019/20

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2. ↑ Calendar 2019/2020. In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 24, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 2020 China Open - Statement from WPBSA and WST. In: wst.tv. WPBSA , January 31, 2020, accessed February 1, 2020 . 
4. ^ Coral Tour Championship Postponed. In: wst.tv. WPBSA , March 17, 2020, accessed on March 21, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Coral Tour Championship To Run In June On ITV4. In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 5, 2020, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
6. ^ Betfred World Championship Postponed. WPBSA , March 20, 2020, accessed March 21, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Main Tour Qualification 2019/20. In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , January 23, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Brazil's Figueiredo becomes Pan American Snooker Champion. In: snookerusa.com. United States Snooker Association, February 3, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Morocco's Amine Handed Tour Card. In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , August 28, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 . 
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11. ↑ 2019-2020 Season Summary. (PDF; 144 kB) In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , September 19, 2019, accessed September 27, 2019 . 

Web links

• Current calendar of World Snooker Tour