![]() Nations that are hosting a World Snooker Tour event during the 2017/2018 season
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Duration | 4 May 2017 – 7 May 2018 |
Tournaments | 38[n 1] (20 ranking events) |
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The 2017/2018 snooker season is an ongoing series of professional snooker tournaments to be played between 4 May 2017 and 7 May 2018.
The China Championship became a ranking event and was brought forward to a mid-August date, ahead of the Paul Hunter Classic. The Shanghai Masters was initially withdrawn from the season calendar, but was later rescheduled for November 2017.[1] The biennial World Cup team event was played in July 2017. Another event not held every year returning in 2017 was the 2017 IWGA World Games. The Shoot-Out was brought forward to the start of February, ahead of both the World Grand Prix and Welsh Open.[2]
The new World Seniors Tour comprised four events, including the World Seniors Championship which has returned to Scunthorpe in 2018.[3]
The second ion of the Home Nations Series was being held in this season with the English Open, Northern Ireland Open, Scottish Open and Welsh Open tournaments. A winner of all four tournaments would earn a bonus of £1 million.[4]
Ronnie O'Sullivan earned a joint-record five ranking titles in the season. He joined Stephen Hendry (1990/1991), Ding Junhui (2013/2014), and Mark Selby (2016/2017) in winning five ranking titles in the same season.[5]
Players on the Main Tour by nation[6] |
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Total | 131 |
The top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2017 World Championship, and the 31 players earning a two-year card the previous year automatically qualified for the season (Rouzi Maimaiti has resigned his membership). Next, eight places were allocated to the top 8 on the One Year Ranking List who have not already qualified for the Main Tour. Another two players came from the EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-Offs, and a further 12 places were available through the Q School (four Event 1 winners, four Event 2 winners, and four best-ranked players in the Order of Merit). The rest of the places on to the tour came from amateur events and national governing body (NGB) nominations. Hamza Akbar received a tour card as a special dispensation in place of America's nomination.[7][8]
The list of all professional players in the 2017/2018 season consist of 131 players, including the standard field of the 128 players and three invitational tour cards (James Wattana has second year of a two-year invitational tour card while Jimmy White and Ken Doherty were awarded the new two-year permission).[7][8] Beginning from this season, players with invitational tour cards are eligible to compete in any ranking event.[9] These players are seeded after main tour professionals, but above amateur top ups taken from the Q School ranking list.[10]
All players listed below received a tour card for two seasons.[7][8]
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The following tables outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events.[18][19][20][21]
WR = World ranking event |
NR = Non-ranking event |
VE = Variant event |
TE = Team event |
P/A = Pro–am event |
WST = World Seniors Tour[3] |
Note that the "Seeding revisions" given below are just those rankings that are used for seeding tournaments. Other rankings are produced after each ranking event which are not noted here.
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2017/2018 points distribution for world ranking events:[60]
Tournament/Round→ | R144 | R128 | R80 | R64 | R48 | R32 | R16 | QF | SF | F | W |
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Riga Masters | – | £0 | – | £1,000 | – | £2,000 | £4,000 | £6,000 | £15,000 | £25,000 | £50,000 |
China Championship | – | £0 | – | £4,000 | – | £7,000 | £12,000 | £18,000 | £32,000 | £75,000 | £150,000 |
Paul Hunter Classic | – | £0 | – | £600 | – | £1,000 | £1,725 | £3,000 | £4,500 | £10,000 | £20,000 |
Indian Open | – | £0 | – | £2,000 | – | £4,000 | £6,000 | £10,000 | £15,000 | £25,000 | £50,000 |
World Open | – | £0 | – | £4,000 | – | £7,000 | £12,000 | £18,000 | £32,000 | £75,000 | £150,000 |
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 |
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 |
Northern Ireland Open | – | £0 | – | £2,500 | – | £3,500 | £6,000 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £70,000 |
UK Championship | – | £0 | – | £5,000 | – | £10,000 | £15,000 | £22,500 | £35,000 | £75,000 | £170,000 |
Scottish Open | – | £0 | – | £2,500 | – | £3,500 | £6,000 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £70,000 |
German Masters | – | £0 | – | £2,000 | – | £4,000 | £5,000 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £35,000 | £80,000 |
Shoot-Out | – | £0[n 3] | – | £500 | – | £1,000 | £2,000 | £4,000 | £8,000 | £16,000 | £32,000 |
World Grand Prix | – | – | – | – | – | £5,000 | £7,500 | £12,500 | £20,000 | £40,000 | £100,000 |
Welsh Open | – | £0 | – | £2,500 | – | £3,500 | £6,000 | £10,000 | £20,000 | £30,000 | £70,000 |
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 |
China Open | – | £0 | – | £5,000 | – | £11,000 | £18,000 | £27,000 | £45,000 | £90,000 | £225,000 |
World Championship | £0 | – | £9,000 | – | £13,500 | £18,000[n 4] | £27,500 | £42,500 | £85,000 | £180,000 | £425,000 |
Rank | Country | Players | Titles |
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