2015–16 snooker season
Series of snooker tournaments
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The 2015–16 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 7 May 2015 and 2 May 2016.
Nations that hosted an event in the snooker calendar during the 2015–16 season | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 7 May 2015 – 2 May 2016 |
| Tournaments | 28 (10 ranking events) |
| Triple Crown winners | |
| UK Championship |  Neil Robertson (AUS) |
| Masters |  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) |
| World Championship | Mark Selby (ENG) |
← 2014–15 2016–17 → | |
The World Grand Prix became a ranking event featuring the top 32 players on a one-year money list, having been a non-ranking event the previous season.[1]
New professional players
Countries:
The top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2015 World Championship,[2] and the 30 players earning a two-year card the previous year automatically qualified for the season. The top eight players from the European Tour Order of Merit and top four players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit, who had not already qualified for the Main Tour, also qualified. Another two players came from the EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-Offs,[3] and a further eight places were available through the 2015 Q School.[4] The rest of the places on to the tour came from amateur events and national governing body nominations. Hossein Vafaei's two-year tour card will commence this season.[n 1] All players listed below received a tour card for two seasons.
Calendar
The following tables outline the dates and results of all World Snooker Tour, World Ladies Billiards and Snooker, seniors, and other events.[18][19][20]
World Snooker Tour
| Ranking event |
| ‡ Minor-ranking event |
| † Non-ranking event |
World Ladies Billiards and Snooker
| Start | Finish | Tournament | Venue | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Sep | 27 Sep | UK Ladies Championship | Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England |  Ng On-Yee (HKG) |
5–1 | Reanne Evans (ENG) |
[25] |
| 5 Dec | 6 Dec | Eden Ladies Masters | Cambridge Snooker Centre in Cambridge, England | Reanne Evans (ENG) |
5–0 |  Laura Evans (WAL) |
[26] |
| 6 Feb | Connie Gough Trophy | Dunstable Snooker Club in Dunstable, England | Reanne Evans (ENG) |
4–0 | Maria Catalano (ENG) |
[27] | |
| 5 Mar | 6 Mar | Eden Classic | North East Derbyshire Snooker Club in Chesterfield, England | Reanne Evans (ENG) |
5–1 | Ng On-Yee (HKG) |
[28] |
| 2 Apr | 5 Apr | World Ladies Championship | Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England | Reanne Evans (ENG) |
6–4 | Ng On-Yee (HKG) |
[29] |
Seniors events
| Start | Finish | Tournament | Venue | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jan | 31 Jan | World Seniors Championship | Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England | Mark Davis (ENG) |
2–1 | Darren Morgan (WAL) |
[30] |
Other events
| Start | Finish | Tournament | Venue | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May | 10 May | Vienna Open | 15 Reds Köö Wien Snooker Club in Vienna, Austria | Peter Ebdon (ENG) |
5–3 | Mark King (ENG) |
[31] |
| 15 Jul | 19 Jul | Pink Ribbon | The Capital Venue in Gloucester, England | Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) |
4–2 | Darryn Walker (ENG) |
[32] |
| 11 Nov | 14 Nov | General Cup Qualifying Event | General Snooker Club in Hong Kong, China |  Zhang Anda (CHN) |
5–4 | Cao Yupeng (CHN) |
|
| 16 Nov | 21 Nov | General Cup | General Snooker Club in Hong Kong, China | Marco Fu (HKG) |
7–3 | Mark Williams (WAL) |
Points distribution
2015/2016 points distribution for World Snooker Tour ranking and minor-ranking events:[33]
| Tournament/Round→ | R144 | R128 | R96 | R80 | R64 | R48 | R32 | R16 | QF | SF | F | W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian Tour events | – | 0 | – | – | 400 | – | 800 | 1,300 | 1,750 | 3,500 | 6,500 | 13,500 |
| European Tour events | – | 0 | – | – | 525 | – | 900 | 1,725 | 3,000 | 4,500 | 9,000 | 18,750 |
| Players Championship Grand Finals | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4,000 | 7,000 | 12,500 | 20,000 | 38,000 | 100,000 |
| Australian Goldfields Open | – | 0 | 250[n 10] | – | 500 | 1000[n 10] | 4,500[n 10] | 6,000 | 8,500 | 10,000 | 16,000 | 37,500 |
| Shanghai Masters | – | 0 | 500[n 10] | – | 2,000 | 3,000[n 10] | 6,000[n 10] | 8,000 | 12,000 | 19,500 | 35,000 | 85,000 |
| International Championship | – | 0 | – | – | 4,000 | – | 7,000 | 12,000 | 17,500 | 30,000 | 65,000 | 125,000 |
| UK Championship | – | 0 | – | – | 4,000 | – | 9,000 | 12,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 70,000 | 150,000 |
| German Masters | – | 0 | – | – | 1,500 | – | 3,000 | 3,750 | 7,500 | 15,000 | 26,250 | 60,000 |
| Welsh Open | – | 0 | – | – | 2,000 | – | 3,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 60,000 |
| World Grand Prix | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2,500 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 35,000 | 100,000 |
| China Open | – | 0 | – | – | 4,000 | – | 6,500 | 8,000 | 12,500 | 21,000 | 35,000 | 85,000 |
| World Championship | 0 | – | – | 6,600 | – | 9,900 | 13,250[n 10] | 22,000 | 33,000 | 66,000 | 137,500 | 330,000 |
Notes
- Hossein Vafaei received special dispensation to play on the Main Tour last season, while awaiting a visa, which he received in February 2015.[5][6]
- Event also known as the 2015 Paul Hunter Classic.
- Event also known as the 2015 Haining Open.
- Event also known as the 2015 Bulgarian Open.
- Event also known as the 2015 Gibraltar Open.
- Event also known as the 2016 Gdynia Open.
- Players who lose their first match receive no ranking points.