2024/25 World Snooker Tour Cards – WPBSA

The 2024/25 World Snooker Tour’s provisional card structure has been jointly confirmed by the WPBSA and WST. Held Spots As in past seasons, the main 64 players on the authority world positioning rundown following the 2024 Cazoo Big showdown will stay on visit.

They will be joined by up to 31 players who are right now on the main year of a two-year visit card, as well as the best four players on the one-year positioning rundown, not currently qualified. Capability Pathways The visit will be finished by players who effectively qualify through perceived visit capability pathways that mirror the proceeded with development of snooker all over the planet.

Yet again these incorporate Q School UK/Europe and Q School Asia-Oceania, where a sum of twelve two-year visit cards will be on offer. Two spots were as of late succeeded at the World Snooker Organization (WSF) Titles, snooker’s most lofty global beginner titles, in Albania recently. In the mixed-gender WSF Championship final, Hong Kong China’s Ka Wai Cheung prevailed overwhelmingly to secure his place, while Bulcs Révész, a 17-year-old, became Hungary’s first professional player by winning the WSF Junior Championship.

Snooker’s chief novice visit, the recently extended WPBSA Q Visit Worldwide will convey four spots – one to the main positioned player in UK/Europe, currently affirmed as Michael Holt, while three more will be available to all at the Worldwide Play-Off to be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Spring. The World Ladies’ Snooker (WWS) Visit, which was laid out as an authority visit capability pathway in 2021, will again offer two spots – one to the Ladies’ Big showdown champ and one more to the most elevated positioned player not on the World Snooker Visit.

Ought to either Reanne Evans or Baipat Siripaporn come out on top for the big showdown again in Spring, the subsequent card will likewise go to the following most elevated positioned player on the WWS positioning rundown. The last places will be asserted by perceived territorial qualifiers from Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Asia-Pacific areas, notwithstanding the CBSA China Visit.

“We are pleased to confirm the minimum guaranteed World Snooker Tour structure for the 2024/25 season,” stated WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson. “We presently have a hearty and laid out Visit capability structure which gives chances to hopeful novice players all over the planet to procure their expert spots, as well as current players the opportunity to hold their spots. “The proceeded with development of the WPBSA Q Visit Worldwide – which this season has seen its number of Visit puts twofold to four – is a huge step, with the relaunched Worldwide Season finisher in Bosnia and Herzegovina set to incorporate players from the UK/Europe, Americas, Center East and Asia-Pacific locales interestingly.

“Along with the two spots brought home at the WSF Titles, the greatest rivalry in novice snooker all around the world, recently, our obligation to our organization of worldwide accomplices and our global capability structure is clear and will just keep on fortifying in later seasons.” Full capability list: Top 64 from the two-year Prize Cash World Rankings after the 2024 Big showdown: 64 Players granted a two-year Visit card for the 2023/2024 season (not currently qualified): 31* Top 4 players from 2023/2024 one-year positioning rundown following the 2024 Big showdown (not as of now qualified)** 4 Q School Europe/UK: 8 Q School Asia-Oceania**: 4 WPBSA Q Tour**: 4 WSF Championship**: 1 WSF Junior Championship**: 1 World Ladies’ Snooker Qualifiers**: 2 EBSA European Qualifiers**: 2 APBSF Asia Pacific Qualifier**: 1 Qualification for the PABSA Americas**: ABSC Africas Qualifier**: 1 CBSA China Tour**: 2 *Last absolute likely to change in the event that any of these players finish within the best 64 of the two-year prize cash rankings after the 2024 Big showdown **Players will get a two-year visit card Notwithstanding these base ensured places, there might be extra Invitational Visit Cards or potentially puts for any player who fits the bill for the last phases of the Cazoo Big showdown at the Pot, who in any case wouldn’t procure another visit card. Q School numbers may likewise be evaluated subject to visit numbers at the season end. The situation in regard of these potential capability courses will be affirmed preceding the arrival of the section pack for the Cazoo Big showdown.