WORLD RANKINGS AFTER THE 2017 BETWAY UK CHAMPIONSHIP Start Current Prize Money Ranking Ranking Player Name Rankings 1 1 Mark Selby 1,420,500 14 2 Ronnie O'Sullivan 714,250 3 3 Judd Trump 672,275 4 4 Ding Junhui 641,950 2 5 John Higgins 519,575 8 6 Shaun Murphy 499,400 6 7 Barry Hawkins 402,475 10 8 Mark Allen 399,450 5 9 Marco Fu 389,400 16 10 Mark Williams 353,750 27 11 Luca Brecel 337,625 9 12 Stuart Bingham 336,337 12 13 Ali Carter 328,525 13 14 Kyren Wilson 327,475 17 15 Anthony McGill 283,325 19 16 Ryan Day 279,537 11 17 Liang Wenbo 262,650 24 18 Stephen Maguire 257,950 15 19 Martin Gould 251,050 7 20 Neil Robertson 250,625 20 21 Mark King 242,700 22 22 Joe Perry 222,850 21 23 Ricky Walden 214,700 18 24 David Gilbert 179,700 23 25 Michael Holt 176,350 26 26 Michael White 167,025 56 27 Yan Bingtao 164,125 30 28 Graeme Dott 160,950 25 29 Anthony Hamilton 153,925 29 30 Alan McManus 147,425 31 31 Zhou Yuelong 146,600 28 32 Ben Woollaston 144,050 34 33 Robert Milkins 141,275 39 34 Xiao Guodong 140,425 38 35 Jimmy Robertson 133,512 58 36 Li Hang 133,475 33 37 Tom Ford 132,500 54 38 Jack Lisowski 129,162 32 39 Dominic Dale 125,550 48 40 Mark Joyce 123,437 52 41 Kurt Maflin 117,037 36 42 Mark Davis 112,025 59 43 Hossein Vafaei 107,625 43 44 Mike Dunn 105,975 37 45 Matthew Selt 104,425 45 46 Fergal O'Brien 101,887 40 47 Peter Ebdon 101,712 35 48 Jamie Jones 100,887 11/12/2017 WORLD RANKINGS AFTER THE 2017 BETWAY UK CHAMPIONSHIP Start Current Prize Money Ranking Ranking Player Name Rankings 47 49 Yu DeLu 99,750 49 50 Andrew Higginson 95,250 53 51 Robbie Williams 94,475 55 52 Matthew Stevens 92,987 46 53 Stuart Carrington 91,200 57 54 Gary Wilson 91,012 42 55 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 90,925 41 56 Rory McLeod 89,712 51 57 Sam Baird 85,100 63 58 Chris Wakelin 82,425 64 59 Noppon Saengkham 81,750 60 60 Alfie Burden 80,475 62 61 Oliver Lines 78,137 50 62 Tian Pengfei 77,875 61 63 Daniel Wells 71,612 65 64 Scott Donaldson 69,525 44 65 David Grace 66,825 66 66 John Astley 63,225 89 67 Cao Yupeng 61,525 68 68 Liam Highfield 60,325 67 69 Zhang Anda 57,750 69 70 Lee Walker 54,825 70 71 Mei Xiwen 53,712 74 72 Michael Georgiou 48,737 85 73 Elliot Slessor 48,362 NEW 74 Lyu Haotian 45,500 * NEW 75 Akani Songsermsawad 43,500 * 72 76 Zhao Xintong 43,262 NEW 77 Ken Doherty 42,500 * 75 78 Mitchell Mann 40,025 71 79 Hammad Miah 38,337 78 80 Aditya Mehta 37,100 79 81 Ian Preece 36,100 76 82 Sam Craigie 35,462 NEW 83 Alexander Ursenbacher 32,600 * 73 84 James Wattana 29,500 77 85 Jak Jones 28,962 81 86 Wang Yuchen 25,000 80 87 Fang Xiongman 23,150 NEW 88 Li Yuan 22,500 * NEW 89 Martin O'Donnell 22,100 * NEW 90 Xu Si 20,000 * 86 91 Adam Duffy 19,862 82 92 Craig Steadman 19,550 NEW 93 Gerard Greene 18,500 * NEW 94 Peter Lines 17,725 * 84 95 Thor Chuan Leong 17,400 83 96 Alex Borg 17,100 11/12/2017 WORLD RANKINGS AFTER THE 2017 BETWAY UK CHAMPIONSHIP Start Current Prize Money Ranking Ranking Player Name Rankings NEW 97 Zhang Yong 16,500 * NEW 98 Allan Taylor 15,250 * NEW 99 Ian Burns 15,000 * NEW 100 Chen Zifan 15,000 * 93 101 Chen Zhe 12,500 NEW 102 Jimmy White 12,500 * NEW 103 Yuan SiJun 12,000 * NEW 104 Robin Hull 11,500 * NEW 105 Eden Sharav 11,000 * NEW 106 Billy Castle 10,500 * 87 107 Josh Boileau 10,312 NEW 108 Ross Muir 10,000 * NEW 109 Niu Zhuang 8,500 * NEW 110 Duane Jones 8,500 * 88 111 Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn 8,000 NEW 112 Sanderson Lam 8,000 * NEW 113 Soheil Vahedi 8,000 * 92 114 Jamie Curtis-Barrett 7,600 NEW 115 Paul Davison 7,500 * NEW 116 Ashley Hugill 7,000 * 90 117 Christopher Keogan 6,050 91 118 Boonyarit Keattikun 6,000 NEW 119 Joe Swail 5,500 * 96 120 Leo Fernandez 5,000 NEW 121 Sean O'Sullivan 4,000 * NEW 122 Chris Totten 4,000 * 94 123 Kurt Dunham 3,025 NEW 124 Rod Lawler 2,600 * NEW 125 Nigel Bond 2,600 * NEW 126 Rhys Clark 2,500 * 95 127 David John 2,337 NEW 128 Lukas Kleckers 2,000 * NEW 129 Hamza Akbar 0 * NEW 130 Matthew Bolton 0 * NEW 131 Basem Eltahhan 0 * * - This denotes a player who has a 2 year tour card covering the 2017/18 and 2018/19 season. ITC - This denotes a player who has an Invitational Tour Card to compete in events Where prize money is won without a player winning a match in a tournament, other than in the World Grand Prix and Players Championship, NONE of that prize money will count towards these prize money rankings. Where prize money is won by a player at a qualifying venue and that player does not go on to compete at the final venue, for whatever reason, that prize money will not count in the prize money rankings until the situation has been considered by the appeals committee who may, at their absolute discretion, allocate ranking points where it can be demonstrated that there are extreme mitigating circumstances. These points will be allocated from the date of the committee meeting and will not affect previously issued draws. Start ranking relates to the ranking position at the start of the 2017/2018 Season prior to the first main tour ranking event, The 2017 Kaspersky Riga Masters. Those players marked 'NEW' were new to the tour for the 2017/2018 season. 11/12/2017.