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1991–92 snooker world rankings

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The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the governing body for professional snooker, first introduced a ranking system for professional players in 1976, with the aim of seeding players for the World Snooker Championship. The reigning champion would be automatically seeded first, the losing finalist from the previous year seeded second, and the other seedings based on the ranking list. Initially, the rankings were based on performances in the preceding three world championships. The 1983–84 snooker world rankings were the first to take tournaments other than the world championship into account and several additional tournaments were designated as ranking tournaments over the following years. The list for the 1986–87 snooker season was the first to only take account of results over two seasons and the rankings for 1991–92 were also based on results from the preceding two seasons. There were eighteen ranking events taken into consideration for the 1991–92 ranking list: ten in the 1989–90 snooker season and eight in the 1990–91 snooker season. The ranking list was published soon after the conclusion of the 1991 World Snooker Championship.

Stephen Hendry was ranked first, with 85 ranking points, ahead of Steve Davis with 57 and Jimmy White with 51. Snooker Scene magazine commented that Hendry's lead was larger than the equivalent of four ranking tournament wins. Gary Wilkinson and Tony Jones were in the top 16, regarded as the elite of the game, for the first time. Wilkinson, runner-up at the 1991 British Open, rose from 19th to 5th and the 1991 European Open champion Jones moved from 35th to 15th. Tony Knowles regained a place in the top 16, while Willie Thorne, John Virgo and Tony Meo dropped out of it.

Alan McManus at 41st and Ken Doherty at 51st were the highest placed of those who had been on the professional circuit for only one season. Alex Higgins had 25 ranking points deducted from his 1989–90 total and was banned for the 1990–91 season by the WPBSA following a disciplinary inquiry. He fell from 97th to 120th. There were 165 players on the original list issued by the WBPSA, but four players who did not pay their membership fees were subsequently excluded: Jimmy van Rensberg (originally 119th), Patsy Fagan (originally 146th), Mike Hines (originally 159th) and Frank Jonik (originally 160th).

Points tariff and basis of ranking

Placing	[1990](1990-world-snooker-championship) and [1991](1991-world-snooker-championship) world championships	Other ranking tournaments 1989–90 and 1990–91	Champion	Runner-up	Losing semi-finalist	Losing quarter-finalist	Last 16 loser	Last 32 loser	Final qualifying round loser	Penultimate qualifying round loser	Antepenultimate qualifying round loser	Preliminary round loser
10	6
8	5
6	4
4	3
2	2
1 ranking point or 2 merit points	1
2 merit points	1 merit point
1 merit point	1 A point
1 A point	Frames won counted
Frames won counted	–

Ranking was determined as follows:

By number of ranking points.
If players had an equal number of ranking points, precedence was given to the player with the better performances in the later season.
If players were still equal, merit points were considered. If they were still tied, precedence was given to the player with the better performances in the later season.
If players were still equal, A points were considered. If they were still tied, precedence was given to the player with the better performances in the later season.
If players were still equal, frames won were considered. If they were still tied, precedence was given the player with the better performances in the later season.

Rankings

Key:

"(New)" denotes a player that was a new professional for 1990–91; "*" denotes that the player was not a professional during the season.
"X" denotes that the player was banned from competing in the 1990–91 season.

Note: the breakdown of points per season for players ranked below 64 is not provided in sources. Blank cells indicate that the information is not provided in sources for the ranking list.

Ranking	Name	[1989–90 season](1989-90-snooker-season)	[1990–91 season](1990-91-snooker-season)	Total	Ranking points	Merit points	A points	Frames	Ranking points	Merit points	A points	Frames
Stephen Hendry	44	1	–	–	41	–	–	–	85	1	–	–
Steve Davis	33	–	–	–	24	2	–	–	57	2	–	–
Jimmy White	24	1	–	–	27	1	–	–	51	2	–	–
John Parrott	26	1	–	–	22	2	–	–	48	3	–	–
Gary Wilkinson	17	1	2	–	21	1	–	–	38	2	2	–
Neal Foulds	18	1	–	–	20	–	–	–	38	1	–	–
Steve James	22	2	–	–	14	3	–	–	36	5	–	–
Mike Hallett	16	2	–	–	17	3	–	–	33	5	–	–
Dennis Taylor	13	4	–	–	17	2	–	–	30	6	–	–
Doug Mountjoy	19	3	–	–	11	3	–	–	30	6	–	–
Terry Griffiths	15	3	–	–	12	2	–	–	27	5	–	–
Dean Reynolds	16	2	–	–	11	3	–	–	27	5	–	–
Alain Robidoux	15	–	2	–	10	2	–	–	25	2	2	–
Martin Clark	16	2	–	–	9	1	–	–	25	3	–	–
Tony Jones	11	1	3	–	12	2	2	–	23	3	5	–
Tony Knowles	13	4	–	–	10	2	–	–	23	6	–	–
Willie Thorne	13	2	–	–	9	4	–	–	22	6	–	–
Dene O'Kane	12	5	–	–	9	4	–	–	21	9	–	–
Peter Francisco	12	4	–	–	9	3	–	–	21	7	–	–
James Wattana	12	3	3	–	9	2	1	–	21	5	4	–
Nigel Bond	10	4	2	4	10	4	2	–	20	8	4	4
Tony Drago	10	3	–	–	9	3	–	–	19	6	–	–
Steve Newbury	14	3	–	–	5	3	–	–	19	6	–	–
Silvino Francisco	10	6	–	–	8	4	–	–	18	10	–	–
Wayne Jones	11	2	–	–	7	5	–	–	17	7	–	–
Joe Johnson	9	6	–	–	7	3	–	–	16	9	–	–
Eddie Charlton	7	4	–	–	6	2	–	–	15	6	–	–
Danny Fowler	10	5	1	–	5	6	–	–	15	11	1	–
Mark Bennett	8	4	1	–	6	3	1	–	14	7	2	–
Bob Chaperon	11	5	–	–	3	7	–	–	14	12	–	–
John Virgo	12	3	–	–	2	7	–	–	14	10	–	–
Cliff Wilson	7	5	–	–	6	4	–	–	13	9	–	–
Darren Morgan	7	5	2	–	6	2	1	–	13	7	3	–
Tony Meo	7	3	–	–	5	5	–	–	12	8	–	–
Brady Gollan	5	2	2	6	6	1	4	–	11	3	6	6
Cliff Thorburn	7	5	–	–	4	7	–	–	11	12	–	–
Tony Chappel	4	4	3	–	6	1	4	–	10	5	7	–
Barry West	7	6	–	–	3	6	–	–	10	12	–	–
Warren King	8	3	3	–	2	4	2	–	10	7	5	–
Les Dodd	6	3	2	5	3	4	4	5	9	7	6	5
Alan McManus (New)	*	*	*	*	8	3	–	6	8	3	–	6
Ian Graham	4	6	3	–	4	3	2	–	8	9	5	–
John Campbell	4	3	4	–	4	3	2	–	8	6	6	–
Colin Roscoe	4	3	5	–	4	1	4	–	8	4	9	–
Eugene Hughes	5	7	–	–	3	3	4	–	8	10	4	–
Robert Marshall	6	4	2	5	2	3	3	5	8	7	5	5
Brian Morgan	8	2	1	7	–	1	7	7	8	3	8	7
Rex Williams	4	7	–	–	3	6	1	–	7	13	1	–
Jack McLaughlin	4	6	2	–	3	3	3	–	7	9	5	–
David Roe	5	7	–	–	2	2	4	–	7	9	4	–
Ken Doherty (New)	*	*	*	*	6	2	1	3	6	2	1	3
Mark Johnston-Allen	1	8	2	–	5	3	4	–	6	11	6	–
Franky Chan (New)	*	*	*	*	5	1	2	9	5	1	2	9
Rod Lawler (New)	*	*	*	*	4	4	2	0	4	4	2	0
Jon Birch (New)	*	*	*	*	4	2	2	3	4	2	2	3
Jason Prince (New)	*	*	*	*	4	2	1	5	4	2	1	5
Jim Wych	1	6	1	–	3	5	2	–	4	11	3	–
Kirk Stevens	1	1	8	–	3	1	2	12	4	2	10	12
Nigel Gilbert	2	2	6	–	2	4	2	–	4	6	8	–
Nick Dyson	2	2	4	11	2	2	3	2	4	4	7	13
Craig Edwards	2	2	2	11	2	–	6	11	4	2	8	11
Jim Chambers	3	6	2	–	1	–	7	–	4	6	9	–
Steve Duggan	4	4	3	–	–	2	6	4	4	6	9	–
Mark Rowing	3	3	2	12	–	3	5	–	3	6	7	12
Stephen Murphy	1				1				2	5	5	24
Duncan Campbell	–				2				2	4	9	11
Ken Owers	–				2				2	3	6	20
Robby Foldvari	–				2				2	2	2	54
Jason Whittaker (New)	*	*	*	*	2	1	3	13	2	1	3	13
Andrew Cairns	1				1				2	7	6	8
Joe O'Boye	1				1				2	7	7	–
Murdo MacLeod	1				1				2	7	9	–
Barry Pinches	1				1				2	4	6	15
David Taylor	2				–				2	9	7	–
Jason Smith	2				–				2	5	5	27
Joe Grech	2				–				2	4	2	7
Brian Rowswell	2				–				2	3	10	8
Paul Gibson	2				–				2	2	4	29
Bob Harris	–				1				1	9	6	4
Steve Campbell	–				1				1	7	6	15
Gary Natale (New)	*	*	*	*	1	1	2	11	1	1	2	11
Mick Price	1				–				1	10	3	13
Paddy Browne	1				–				1	9	8	–
Roger Bales	1				–				1	6	7	10
John Spencer	1				–				1	6	11	–
Tony Wilson	1				–				1	5	6	19
Bill Oliver	1				–				1	5	5	28
Mario Morra	1				–				1	4	9	9
Marcel Gauvreau	1				–				1	4	7	21
Tommy Murphy	1				–				1	4	11	6
Dave Gilbert	1				–				1	4	11	5
Martin Smith	1				–				1	2	8	23
Paul Medati	1				–				1	2	6	27
Ian Brumby	1				–				1	2	5	30
Ray Edmonds	–				–				–	8	8	9
Jon Wright	–				–				–	8	3	19
Nick Terry	–				–				–	7	7	8
Steve Longworth	–				–				–	6	12	–
Chris Cookson (New)	*	*	*	*	–	5	1	12	–	5	1	12
John Rea	–				–				–	5	8	15
Graham Miles	–				–				–	5	4	24
Eddie Sinclair	–				–				–	5	6	22
Graham Cripsey	–				–				–	4	8	19
Pat Houlihan	–				–				–	4	7	16
Dave Martin	–				–				–	4	6	14
Ian Williamson	–				–				–	3	8	21
Steve Meakin	–				–				–	3	5	29
Jason Ferguson (New)	*	*	*	*	–	2	2	10	–	2	2	10
Mick Fisher	–				–				–	2	11	11
Paul Watchorn	–				–				–	2	4	28
Anthony Kearney	–				–				–	1	8	21
Gino Rigitano	–				–				–	1	5	24
Eric Lawlor	–				–				–	1	5	24
George Scott	–				–				–	1	4	20
Matt Gibson	–				–				–	1	4	43
Vic Harris	–				–				–	1	4	29
Robbie Grace	–				–				–	1	3	21
Jim Donnelly	–				–				–	1	2	43
François Ellis	–				–				–	1	1	37
Alex Higgins	–	1	–	–	X	X	X	X	–	1	–	–
Malcolm Bradley	–	–			–	–			–	–	9	23
Anthony Harris	–	–			–	–			–	–	7	44
Jack Fitzmaurice	–	–			–	–			–	–	7	27
John Dunning	–	–			–	–			–	–	6	23
Mike Darrington	–	–			–	–			–	–	5	33
Ray Reardon	–	–			–	–			–	–	5	17
Billy Kelly	–	–			–	–			–	–	5	8
Jim Bear	–	–			–	–			–	–	4	27
Mark Wildman	–	–			–	–			–	–	4	20
Jim Meadowcroft	–	–			–	–			–	–	4	8
Fred Davis	–	–			–	–			–	–	3	19
Terry Whitthread	–	–			–	–			–	–	2	26
Mike Watterson	–	–			–	–			–	–	2	20
Dessie Sheehan	–	–			–	–			–	–	2	33
Glen Wilkinson	–	–			–	–			–	–	2	18
Dennis Hughes	–	–			–	–			–	–	2	15
Geoff Foulds	–	–			–	–			–	–	2	12
Vladimir Potazsnyk	–	–		–	–	–	–		–	–	1	–
Greg Jenkins	–	–			–	–			–	–	1	10
Clive Everton	–	–		–	–	–		–	–	–	1	–
Paul Thornley	–	–	–		–	–	–		–	–	–	23
Derek Heaton	–	–	–		–	–	–		–	–	–	6
Derek Mienie	–	–	–		–	–	–		–	–	–	5
Ian Black	–	–	–		–	–	–		–	–	–	3
Bernie Mikkelsen	–	–	–		–	–	–		–	–	–	2
Bill Werbeniuk	–	–	–		–	–	–		–	–	–	1
Ian Anderson	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Bernard Bennett	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Pascal Burke	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Joe Cagianello	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Lou Condo	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Bert Demarco	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Manuel Francisco	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sam Frangie	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
James Giannaros	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
David Greaves	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Steve Mizerak	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Paddy Morgan	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Maurice Parkin	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Jim Rempe	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Gerry Watson	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Ranking tournaments

Tournament	Winner	Runner-up	Score
[1989 Hong Kong Open](1989-hong-kong-open)	Mike Hallett	Dene O'Kane	9–8
[1989 Asian Open](1989-asian-open)	Stephen Hendry	James Wattana	9–6
[1989 International Open](1989-international-open)	Steve Davis	Stephen Hendry	9–4
[1989 Grand Prix](1989-grand-prix-snooker)	Steve Davis	Dean Reynolds	10–0
[1989 Dubai Classic](1989-dubai-classic)	Stephen Hendry	Doug Mountjoy	9–2
[1989 UK Championship](1989-uk-championship)	Stephen Hendry	Steve Davis	16–12
[1990 Classic](1990-classic-snooker)	Steve James	Warren King	10–6
[1990 British Open](1990-british-open)	Bob Chaperon	Alex Higgins	10–8
[1990 European Open](1990-european-open-snooker)	John Parrott	Stephen Hendry	10–6
[1990 World Snooker Championship](1990-world-snooker-championship)	Stephen Hendry	Jimmy White	18–12
[1990 Grand Prix](1990-grand-prix-snooker)	Stephen Hendry	Nigel Bond	10–5
[1990 Asian Open](1990-asian-open)	Stephen Hendry	Dennis Taylor	9–3
[1990 Dubai Classic](1990-dubai-classic)	Stephen Hendry	Steve Davis	9–1
[1990 UK Championship](1990-uk-championship)	Stephen Hendry	Steve Davis	16–15
[1991 Classic](1991-classic-snooker)	Jimmy White	Stephen Hendry	10–4
[1991 British Open](1991-british-open)	Stephen Hendry	Gary Wilkinson	10–9
[1991 European Open](1991-european-open-snooker)	Tony Jones	Mark Johnston-Allen	9–7
[1991 World Snooker Championship](1991-world-snooker-championship)	John Parrott	Jimmy White	18–11

prev=1990–91| next=1992–93| list=1991–92

Notes

References

Books

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