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	Snooker world rankings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike dynamic ranking systems such as the World golf rankings, the snooker rankings remain constant throughout the season (from the end of one world championship to the end of the next).
		Rankings were first introduced after the 1976 world championship, as a means of determining seedings for subsequent championships.
		The rankings for the 2005/06 season were compiled from the results of eight tournaments: the totesport Grand Prix, British Open, UK Championship, Welsh Open, Malta Cup, Irish Masters, China Open and World Championship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snooker_world_rankings (693 words)

	AZBilliards.com - Snooker with Alan Morris
		World Snooker (formerly known as the World Snooker Association) is the controlling body for professional snooker and English billiards throughout the world.
		World Snooker is the players’ association and snooker players are among some of the best known faces in the sporting world, who compete in the World Snooker organized world ranking snooker tournaments staged around the world.
		World Snooker also acts in a disciplinary capacity, and was one of the first professional sporting bodies to introduce a comprehensive drug testing policy under International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines.
	www.azbilliards.com /snooker/worldsnooker.html (317 words)

	Snooker
		Snooker is a billiards sport that is played on a large (12' × 6') baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions.
		Snooker suffered a decline in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so that no tournament was held from 1958 to 1963.
		Snooker is played on a rectangular 6' by 12' (about 1.83m by 3.66m) table with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.
	www.online.gambling.name /Snooker.html (3182 words)

	Snooker World Ranking
		World Snooker Championship - The World Snooker Championship, currently held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, is the climax of snooker's annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points.
		World Doubles Championship (snooker) - The World Doubles Championship, also known as the Hofmeister World Doubles (1982-6) or the Fosters World Doubles (1987), was a non-ranking snooker tournament held from 1982 to 1987.
		World Soccer Player Ranking - World Soccer Player Ranking FIFA Women's World Rankings - The FIFA Women's World Rankings for football (soccer) were introduced in July 2003 as a follow-on to the existing FIFA World Rankings for men.
	soccer.usamsoc.com /snookerworldranking.html (844 words)

	The Global Snooker Centre
		Performances in the previous three world championships were taken into account which meant that effectively, the 1974 championship was the first event to carry ranking points.
		One ranking point was awarded to those who reached the last 32, two for the last sixteen and so on up to six for the winner.
		In the world championship it was roughly the same except that the winner got 10 points, runner-up 8 and then 6, 4, 2, and 1 for those who lost in the last 32.
	www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk /files/History/history_rankings.htm (1922 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		When the tournament was scrapped in 1994 the game seemed to stall, but it is emerging from the ashes with a vengeance, led by one charismatic young Dubai policeman who is holding on to a dream of one day joining the game’s elite.
		His trips to Asian tournaments have brought only limited success, and he admits that it is sometimes tough to motivate himself when he is preparing for local tournaments.
		The former professional snooker player and qualified Professional Billiards and Snooker Association coach appreciates that it is tough to develop the best players here due to lack of competition but has added an edge to training sessions when building up to big tournaments by infusing a sense of competition into them.
	www.alshindagah.com /julaug2003/snooker.html (1481 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Snooker: Doherty and Swail win at Scottish Open
		Ken Doherty stretched his unbeaten run in ranking tournaments to 11 matches with a 5-2 win over Thailand's James Wattana at the £441,000 Regal Scottish Open.
		The former world champion, winner of the Welsh Open and Thailand Masters this year, now plays countryman Michael Judge for a place in the quarter-finals.
		Swail reached the semi-finals of last season's World Championship but did not then win a match in a ranking tournament during the first half of the 2000-2001 campaign.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2001/0411/snooker.html (218 words)

	BBC SPORT \| OTHER SPORTS \| WPBSA v TSN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association is the global governing body for professional snooker and billiards.
		There are 160 players on the professional tour, but only the world's top 16 are guaranteed entry to ranking tournaments.
		TSN's inaugural world championship, as yet unsponsored and a deal for TV coverage, will be staged at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena between 21 April and 7 May, 2002.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/1174311.stm (551 words)

	Play Free Snooker Online - free multiplayer online snooker for everyone
		A frame in snooker means the period of playing which starts with the opening stroke, with all the balls placed according to the rules quoted in Chapter 3, paragraph 2, until it is completed by:
		The white ball is said to be snookered if a direct stroke in the straight line each of the object balls is totally or partially blocked by the ball or the non-object balls.
		- is snookered on all red balls or the ball on by the free ball thus nominated, except for the case when the pink ball and the fl ball are the only object balls remaining on the bed of the table.
	www.gamedesire.com /online.game-snooker,n-21.html (4916 words)

	SNOOKER 4EVA
		No 1 on the world ranking list for eight years, he has also captured five UK Championships, two British Opens and six Benson and Hedges Masters titles, amassing well over £6million in prize money in the process.
		His ranking of 17th last season was the first time he has been out of the top 16 in 20 years.
		Peter Ebdon is one of snooker’s great showmen and he made a dramatic entry to The Crucible Theatre stage in 1992, beating six-times world champion Steve Davis 10-4 in the first round and going on to reach the quarter-finals in his first season as a professional.
	www.geocities.com /andy_p55/index.html (1123 words)

	WWW Snooker: Tournaments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The top players in the world rankings are automatically qualified, but the rest of the players have to struggle through the qualifying tournaments to earn one of the places up for grabs.
		Invitational tournaments are, as the name implies, reserved a priviliged group of players.
		The Regal Masters in Scotland and the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters are two other well-known masters tournaments on the snooker calendar.
	snooker.org /Trn (347 words)

	American Pool Network - Developing Professional Snooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		World Snooker, until the management of Sir Rodney Walker, was in turmoil and losing money all over the place.
		Snooker has the best TV coverage of any cue sport worldwide both in it's physical production and in the professionalism of the whole team.
		By having a two tier ranking tournament system it means more money and a greater number of players are able to make a living.
	www.americanpool-network.co.uk /default.asp?p=prosnooker (502 words)

	Snookerimages - 2006-07 Ranking List
		So that at the end of this season - after the world championship - the two sets of points will be added together to give that players final ranking position for the start of next season (2007-08).
		To see the provisional rankings for the 2006-07 season, if we look at last season (2005 - 06) Graeme scored 19100 points, so provisionally for the start of this season he is now 3rd.
		The second column shows the player's official 2 year ranking after the 2004 - 06 seasons and the third column was their previous official ranking position at the beginning of the last season (2005 -06).
	www.snookerimages.co.uk /home/tournaments/ranking.php (276 words)

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		World Snooker Championship gives you over 100 pros to play against including World Champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, Mark Williams, Peter Ebdon, Matthew Stevens, Paul Hunter (best wishes from everyone here Paul), John Higgins, Ken Doherty and even “interesting” Steve Davis.
		Progression and winning tournaments unlocks extra venues and novelty tables (there’s an L-shaped one!), videos etc. The ultimate aim is obviously to get to the number one ranking spot and of course win the end of season finale, the World Championship itself, at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
		As you’d expect with a snooker game, practice and getting a feel for the table is vital, and judgement of pace on shots and the subsequent position on the next ball is everything.
	www.gamecell.co.uk /xbox/World_Snooker_Championship_2005.htm (888 words)

	SNOOKER - Wheels in Motion Snooker Management - Live Snooker Scores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		World No.1 Hendry led 5-3 after the opening session but lost the first four frames of the concluding period of play before miraculously recovering to pot his way to a 9-7 victory and a meeting with old adversary Peter Ebdon in the final of the 2006 Maplin Electronics UK Championship
		Former World champions Peter Ebdon and John Higgins produced the tie of the tournament thus far as they enthrallingly duelled for a place in the final of the 2006 Maplin Electronics UK Championship.
		Seven-times World champion Stephen Hendry MBE is no stranger to the latter stages of major professional ranking events but the bizarre manner in which he progressed to the semi-finals of the 2006 Maplin Electronics UK Champion must have represented a career first even for one of the game’s most experienced exponents.
	www.wheelsinmotion.net /Default.asp (1069 words)

	JimmyWhite.info — Six times snooker Embassy World Championship runner-up, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		World amateur champion in 1980, he has won 22 major profeesional titles - nine of them ranking tournaments - during his career.
		His luck seems to be changing for the better in the run up to the Embassy Snooker World Championships with two crucial wins on last card turns.
		Jimmy is hoping to take part in the World Poker Championships in Las Vegas later in the year, with an incredible $3 million in prize money up for grabs.
	www.jimmywhite.info (420 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - O'Sullivan takes European Open
		Ronnie O'Sullivan won his first ranking tournament for 15 months when he defeated Stephen Hendry in the final of the European Open in Torquay.
		O'Sullivan, whose last ranking triumph came at the UK Championship in December 2001, was delighted to get back into the groove with the Embassy World Championship just a month away.
		But it is history now as far as I'm concerned, because the world championship is the big one.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2003/0316/snooker.html (197 words)

	Snooker: O'Sullivan jumps ship to play pool over the pond \| Snooker \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		Ronnie O'Sullivan, disappointed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association announcing only five world-ranking events in comparison with last season's eight, claimed that he is "deserting a sinking ship" in opting to juggle his snooker activities with practising for and competing on a new heavily funded 8 Ball Pool circuit in the United States.
		Responding to the suggestion that as world No1 he has a special responsibility to snooker, he said: "I think it's a bit unfair to put the responsibility on one person and say I've got to stick with it.
		I don't want to be part of a sinking ship which has got no tournaments." He added that he felt "exploited" by some of the prize funds on offer.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /snooker/story/0,10158,1585764,00.html?gusrc=rss (364 words)

	The Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Graeme Dott, the world champion from Larkhall, promptly set his sights on winning the tournament, to be held from October 21 to 29.
		Dott has become one of the elite names in snooker with his 888.com World Championship win, but the 29-year-old insists that, having spent five years in the top 16 of the rankings, he is already sufficiently experienced in dealing with pressure.
		Dott said: "I have been relatively high up in the rankings for a long time, so it is not as if I am facing a complete turnaround in now being someone that others really want to beat.
	www.theherald.co.uk /63258.shtml (464 words)

	BBC - Cornwall - Sport Story City welcomes Hurricane and Whirlwind
		White, however, has won nine ranking tournaments in total during a professional career that began back in 1980.
		Alex Higgins who hit the snooker world like the hurricane which became his nickname, was to become the biggest box-office draw the game has ever known.
		He entered the 1972 world championships and set the snooker world alight by beating John Spencer 37-32 to become champion at his first attempt.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cornwall/sport/snooker/white_higgins.shtml (546 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport... \| Snooker \| New event to kick off next season
		World Snooker has announced that the forthcoming season will start with a new ranking event in Northern Ireland.
		The world's top 32 players plus 16 qualifiers will take part in the competition which will be held at the Waterfront Hall between 13-20 August.
		"I have stated many times that our goal is to increase the number of ranking tournaments and the level of prize money and I'm delighted that we are now in a position to start fulfilling that promise," said World Snooker chairman Sir Rodney Walker.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/5087670.stm (246 words)

	Sportolysis - The World Sports Blog » Blog Archive » How good is snooker?
		Snooker is the second most popular game in the UK, behind only to football.
		Pool is much more popular in various parts of the world but I find snooker much more appealing and having many more tactical nuances to it.
		I think World Snooker should upgrade some of these events to Ranking events, more tournaments means more money which means more players.
	www.sportolysis.com /2006/10/04/how-good-is-snooker (829 words)

	ISPA- Israel Snooker & Pool Accosiation - Ranking System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		National teams and the Elite players: the teams will be composed of 12 elite players in each branch (Pool and Snooker -total 24 players) and three players out of the 12 in each branch category (snooker and pool).
		Each year three of the top ranking Elite players will form the National team in the place of the three lowest ranking members of the team.
		It is likely that in the current year of activity we shall rank all of the Elite billiard players and this in order to institutionalize the tournaments in accordance with the relative ranking method (the head start).
	www.billiard.org.il /ranking_system (510 words)

	Welcome To The Official Welsh Coaching Foundation Site : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Young players are taught the basic techniques of the game and gradually introduced to competitive snooker through local junior club competitions and friendly matches.
		Welsh junior tournaments are played at under 14, 16, and 19 level.
		A series of 4 ranking tournaments for each age group, with the top players from each being chosen to represent Wales in various international events such as the Home International Championships, The Celtic Challenge, World and European Championships.
	www.wbsasnookercoaching.co.uk /home.htm (157 words)

	Snooker: Ronnie to cool off in pool \| Snooker \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		At present, only five ranking tournaments are scheduled, although one or two may be added.
		The danger for snooker is that without more tournaments many of their top players will have too much time on their hands to perfect their pool games and, if Trudeau's tour takes off, they will be well remunerated for doing so.
		These comments drew this response from the world snooker chairman, Rodney Walker: 'Some of it I don't blame him for because we haven't announced our results for last year, nor have I announced a new broadcast contract, nor have we announced any new sponsors.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /snooker/theobserver/story/0,,1593332,00.html (906 words)

	World Snooker Championship 2005 Review - Xbox Review - Australia's PAL Gaming Network
		As in reality, if you don't have a high world ranking, you must partake in a qualifying match before playing against a first round opponent and in some tournaments, if you are not good enough, you cannot even enter.
		Given how Snooker is, it's understandable that it's limited the way it is, but when you can't even make female players it's maybe a little too limited.
		The biggest problem facing Snooker games in general is the fact that it's a genre with so very little competition.
	palgn.com.au /article.php?id=2144 (1658 words)

	Croquet World Online Magazine \| People
		We sought out Chris Hudson, secretary-general of the World Croquet Federation, because we were curious about the principles and policies of the World Croquet Federation and how its activities may benefit the ordinary croquet player as well as top international stars.
		The world individual championship is now well established, although we are still dependent on raising funds to finance it.
		Development of a world team championship immediately raises questions about the future of the MacRobertson Shield competition, and the four countries concerned are currently discussing how they wish to proceed.
	www.croquetworld.com /people/hudsonint.asp (3157 words)

	Women's Snooker: India - Part Two
		To compound matters, men's snooker has seen a nosedive recently with the number of annual tournaments on the decline quips Mr.
		Instead the snooker association sends the no. 1 player whether or not he performed consistently throughout the year.
		With the Cricket Club of India holding this invitational tournament for the second time, plans are afloat to make it an annual affair.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cue_sports/51558 (419 words)

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