The official 2021/2022 snooker world ranking points for the professional snooker players on the World Snooker Main Tour in the 2021–22 season are based on performances in ranking tournaments over a two-year rolling period. The rankings at the start of 2021/2022 season are determined by prize money earned in the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons and are updated after every tournament carrying ranking status; the players are re-ranked at the beginning of the current season after removing players relegated at the end of the previous season from the ranking list. As points are accrued from tournaments throughout the current season, the points from the corresponding tournaments from two seasons earlier are dropped. The rankings are used to set the official tournament seedings at various points throughout the season; even though the rankings are officially updated after every tournament carrying ranking status not all the rankings are used as seedings, and only the rankings officially used as seedings are documented below. The total points accumulated by the cut-off dates for the revised seedings are based on all the points up to that date in the 2021/2022 season, all of the points from the 2020/2021 season, and the points from the 2019/2020 season that have not yet been dropped.
Seeding revisions Cut-off point Date After 2019/2020 points dropped 1 14 August 2021 Championship League Riga Masters 2 23 August 2021 British Open International Championship 3 18 October 2021 Northern Ireland Open China ChampionshipEnglish Open 4 8 November 2021 English Open World OpenNorthern Ireland Open 5 6 December 2021 UK Championship UK Championship 6 20 December 2021 World Grand Prix Scottish Open 7 24 January 2022 Shoot Out European Masters 8 31 January 2022 German Masters German Masters 9 7 March 2022 Welsh Open World Grand PrixWelsh OpenShoot OutPlayers Championship 10 4 April 2022 Tour Championship Gibraltar OpenTour Championship Total 3 May 2022 World Championship World ChampionshipSources:
Ranking points
No. Ch Player SeasonRanking points accumulated in previous seasons: 2019/2020 total: 2020/2021 total: Tournament Season Cut-off point Total 19/20 20/21 CL BO NIO ENO UK SCO WGP SSO GM PC EUM WEO TM GO TC WC 21/22
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