The top 64 players on the official world ranking list after the 2024 Cazoo World Championship will continue to play on tour, just like in previous years.
Up to 31 players who are now in the first year of a two-year tour card and the top four players on the one-year ranking list who are not yet qualified will join them.
Players that successfully complete approved tour qualification paths that represent the ongoing global expansion of snooker will compete in the tour.
Once more, they include Q School Asia-Oceania and Q School UK/Europe, where twelve two-year tour cards will be up for grabs.
The most important international amateur snooker championship, the World Snooker Federation (WSF) Championships, were held in Albania earlier this month. Two slots were recently earned there. While Bulcsú Révész, 17, became the first professional player from Hungary by winning the WSF Junior Championship, Hong Kong China’s Ka Wai Cheung secured his spot in the mixed gender WSF Championship final with a decisive win.
WPBSA Q circuit Global, the premier amateur snooker circuit, has extended to include four spots. One will go to the top-ranked player in the UK/Europe, Michael Holt, who has already been confirmed as such. The remaining three spots will be up for grabs in the Global Play-Off, which will take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina in March.
The Women’s World Championship champion and the highest-ranked player who is not on the World Snooker Tour will both receive two spots on the World Women’s Snooker (WWS) Tour, which was created as an official tour qualification pathway in 2021. The next highest rated player on the WWS rating list will also receive the second card if Reanne Evans or Baipat Siripaporn win the world title again in March.
Tour Global – which this season has seen its number of Tour places double to four – is a significant step, with the relaunched Global Playoff in Bosnia and Herzegovina set to include players from the UK/Europe, Americas, Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions for the first time.
“Together with the two places won at the WSF Championships, the biggest competition in amateur snooker globally, earlier this month, our commitment to our network of global partners and our international qualification structure is clear and will only continue to strengthen in future seasons.”
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