The 2009–10 snooker season was a series of
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...
tournaments played between 16 May 2009 and 8 May 2010. There were six ranking events, two less than in the
previous season. The Bahrain Championship was not held again, and the
Northern Ireland Trophy
The Northern Ireland Trophy was a professional snooker tournament.
History
First contested in 1981 and named ''Northern Ireland Classic''. It was an invitational event held at Ulster Hall, Belfast, and Jimmy White beat Steve Davis in the f ...
was removed from the calendar too. The
Jiangsu Classic
The Wuxi Classic was a professional snooker tournament held from 2008 to 2014 in the city of Wuxi, China. It was a ranking event from 2012 through 2014. For the 2015/16 season, World Snooker reduced the number of ranking events held in China, whi ...
was held for the first time.
New professional players
Countries
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Note: new means in these case, that these players were not on the
2008/2009 professional Main Tour.
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;NGB nominations
;From
PIOS Tour
;WPBSA Wildcard
Calendar
The following table outlines the results and dates for all the
ranking
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second.
In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of o ...
and major invitational events.
Official rankings
The top 16 of the world rankings, these players automatically played in the final rounds of the world ranking events and were invited for the Masters.
World ranking points
Points distribution
2009/2010 Points distribution for world ranking events.
Notes
References
External links
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2009
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Season 2010
Season 2009