Snooker season 1998/1999
In the snooker season 1998/1999 snooker professionals contributed from 17 major tournaments, nine of which were included in the rating for the world rankings.
The Riley Superstar International, which had formed the season opener in China last year, remained a unique event. Instead, the season began on 29 September 1998 in Scotland. Newly arrived Irish Open, but only this one year inventory had. After all, they had the rank of a world ranking tournament, the China Open as the tournament invitation received back again after a year. The German Open, however lost this status and were discharged after four years this season for the time being the last time. The Nations Cup is a team competition in 1999 and reintroduced.
The season ended with the World Cup final on May 3, 1999, in which Stephen Hendry won his seventh world title. Nevertheless, he lost after eight years in first place in the world rankings to his Scottish compatriot John Higgins, who had been seen over the last two years of successful rating.
Season Results
The following table shows the results of the season.
World Ranking
The Snooker world rankings will be updated only after each full season and takes into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best players in the world rankings of the season 1998/ 99; So based on the results of the seasons 96/97 and 97 /98. In parentheses is the year placement is indicated in each case.
In 1973/74 | 1974/75 | 1975/76 | 1976/77 | 1977/78 | 1978/79 | 1979/80 | 1980/81 | 1981/82 | 1982/83 | 1983/84 | 1984/85 | 1985 / 86 | 1986/87 | 1987/88 | 1988/89 | 1989/90 | 1990/91 | 1991/92 | 1992/93 | 1993/94 | 1994/95 | 1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/2000 | 2000 /01 | 2001 /02 | 2002 /03 | 2003 /04 | 2004 /05 | 2005 /06 | 2006 /07 | 2007 /08 | 2008 /09 | 2009/10 | 2010 / 11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14
- Snooker Season
- Snooker 1998
- Snooker 1999