Snooker world rankings 2007/2008

Snooker world rankings 2007/2008: The professional world rankings for the top 75 snooker players (plus 7 other players who are ranked 76–82 officially; if all players on the pro tour were ranked they would be lower) in the 2007/2008 season are listed below. The points listed here take into account ranking tournament performances from the previous two seasons (2005/2006 and 2006/2007).

No.[1] Name Country   Points[2][3] 1 John Higgins  Scotland 42250 2 Graeme Dott  Scotland 37775 3 Shaun Murphy  England 37700 4 Ken Doherty  Ireland 35800 5 Ronnie O'Sullivan  England 33600 6 Peter Ebdon  England 33550 7 Neil Robertson  Australia 33125 8 Stephen Hendry  Scotland 32475 9 Ding Junhui  China 30800 10 Stephen Maguire  Scotland 30550 11 Mark Selby  England 27400 12 Mark Williams  Wales 27125 13 Stephen Lee  England 26150 14 Ali Carter  England 25300 15 Steve Davis  England 24950 16 Ryan Day  Wales 24500 17 Joe Swail  Northern Ireland 24350 18 Joe Perry  England 23925 19 Barry Hawkins  England 23750 20 Matthew Stevens  Wales 23550 21 Mark King  England 22425 22 Jamie Cope  England 22250 23 Stuart Bingham  England 22150 24 Michael Holt  England 21613 25 Nigel Bond  England 20688 26 Anthony Hamilton  England 20451 27 Marco Fu  Hong Kong 20425 28 Ian McCulloch  England 19126 29 Mark Allen  Northern Ireland 18900 30 Dave Harold  England 18875 31 Dominic Dale  Wales 18075 32 Gerard Greene  Northern Ireland 17900 33 James Wattana  Thailand 17688 34 Michael Judge  Ireland 17550 35 David Gray  England 17163 36 Ricky Walden  England 16965 37 Fergal O'Brien  Ireland 16950 38 Alan McManus  Scotland 16525 39 John Parrott  England 16288 40 Adrian Gunnell  England 15500 41 Andy Hicks  England 14976 42 Andrew Norman  England 14888 43 Mark Davis  England 14775 44 Andrew Higginson  England 14725 45 Dave Gilbert  England 14550 46 Jamie Burnett  Scotland 14500 47 Robert Milkins  England 14201 48 Rory McLeod  England 14025 49 Rod Lawler  England 13650 50 Tom Ford  England 13475 51 Judd Trump  England 13450 52 Marcus Campbell  Scotland 13325 53 Stuart Pettman  England 13288 54 Robin Hull  Finland 13113 55 David Roe  England 13113 56 Barry Pinches  England 12638 57 Drew Henry  Scotland 12500 58 Joe Delaney  Ireland 12400 59 Mike Dunn  England 12288 60 Jimmy White  England 12175 61 Jimmy Michie  England 11988 62 Paul Davies  Wales 11713 63 Scott MacKenzie  Scotland 11325 64 Ian Preece  Wales 11050 65 Lee Spick  England 11050 66 Liang Wenbo  China 10900 67 Joe Jogia  England 10738 68 Tony Drago  Malta 10450 69 Tian Pengfei  China 10225 70 Matthew Couch  England 9975 71 David Morris  Ireland 9600 72 Liu Song  China 9525 73 Mark Joyce  England 9500 74 Alfie Burden  England 9500 75 Ben Woollaston  England 9075 76 Chris Norbury  England 8663 77 Sean Storey  England 8500 78 Shokat Ali  Pakistan 7426 79 Jeff Cundy  England 6475 80 Paul Wykes  England 6250 81 James Tatton  England 3513 82 Hugh Abernethy  Scotland 1800

No. 1: John Higgins Born (1975-05-18) May 18, 1975 Sport country  Scotland Professional 1992– Highest ranking 1 No. 2: Graeme Dott Born (1977-05-12) May 12, 1977 Sport country  Scotland Professional 1994– Highest ranking 2 No. 3: Shaun Murphy Born (1982-08-10) August 10, 1982 Sport country  England Professional 1997– Highest ranking 3

Notes

• Ding Junhui (27 to 9), Mark Selby (28 to 11) and Ryan Day (17 to 16) enter the top 16 for the first time. Additionally, Graeme Dott, Shaun Murphy, Neil Robertson and Allister Carter reach career-high rankings.
• Stephen Hendry, who was still the number 1 the season before, drops down to number 8, marking his worst ranking since the 1987/88 season.
• Jimmy White drops down from number 35 to number 60, after his least successful season ever, earning only 5725 points in the 06/07 season alone, down from 6450 in the 05/06 season.
• Former world number 4 Matthew Stevens drops down from number 14 to number 20.
• Barry Hawkins and Anthony Hamilton both drop out of the top 16 after a single season – Hawkins is down from number 12 to number 19, and Hamilton from number 16 to number 26.
• Mark Allen moves up the rankings, from number 62 to number 29. Jamie Cope also reaches the top 32 for the first time (48 to 22),
• Three players re-enter the top 32 – Dave Harold (36 to 30), Dominic Dale (40 to 31) and Gerard Greene (39 to 32)
• Five players necessarily dropped out of the top 32; they are: James Wattana (25 to 33), David Gray (23 to 35), Alan McManus (19 to 38), Andy Hicks (31 to 41) and Robert Milkins (32 to 47).
• Andrew Higginson rises 66 places from number 110 to number 44.
• Judd Trump is up 21 spots from number 72 to number 51.
• Tony Drago drops out of the top 64, from 52 to 68.

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