Snooker season 2011/2012

The snooker season 2011/12 was a series of snooker tournaments that the main tour belonged.

The provisional calendar was released by the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association ( WPBSA ) in late 2010. With the Brazil Masters for the first time a tournament in Australia was a tournament in South America and the Australian Goldfields Open held for the first time. Also new was the World Cup, which was revived after a decade break.

The lineup for the main tour this season consisted of 99 - before 96 - players, which means an additional 5 qualifying round made ​​it necessary for the ranking tournaments, provided that no more than two players canceled their participation in the tournament.

Otherwise there were many innovations in the preseason, as the Players Tour Championship series or the Snooker Shoot -Out, were retained.

Season Results

Players Tour Championship

E These tournaments counted as European tournaments, the other tournaments as UK Tournaments

World Ranking

Since the early season the snooker world ranking is updated several times during the season. The updated rankings then forms the basis for the seedings of the following tournaments.

This change in the rules reflects both the current power state of the snooker players to better resist and also prevents over again meet the same players. The ranking but still covers a period of 24 months. This prevents that a player with only one major tournament victory can quickly set up in the rankings. Rather, you want to know rewarded continuously good performance.

For the following season, the players qualified in the squares 1-64 on the season, and in addition the green highlighted players

Press to display the positions 17-99 on [ Unfold ].

Qualification for the Main Tour 2011/12

In addition to the 64 top-ranked players in the world rankings at the end of the season 2010/11 the other 36 starting places were awarded as follows:

Key points

Seeded players who lose their first game received, only half of the points ( in the table in parentheses below the regular score shown).

Honors

After completion of the season were the following players received several distinctions:

World Snooker Player of the Year: Ronnie O'Sullivan Snooker Writers Player of the Year: Ronnie O'Sullivan Fans Player of the Year: Judd Trump Rookie of the Year: Luca Brecel Performance of the Year: Stuart Bingham Magic Moment of the Year: Stephen Hendry 's 147 147 Club (players the maximum break during the season played ): Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mike Dunn, David Gray, Ricky Walden, Ding Junhui, Jamie Cope, Matthew Stevens, Marco Fu, Robert Milkins, Stephen Hendry Hall of Fame ( New Items ): Walter Donaldson, Mark Williams, John Higgins, Ronnie O'Sullivan.