2024–25 Q Tour Explained

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The 2024–25 Q Tour is a series of snooker tournaments to take place during the 2024–25 snooker season. The Q Tour is the second-tier tour, run by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, for players not on the main World Snooker Tour.

A series of seven Q Tour Europe events will be played, with the leading money-winner gaining a place on the main tour for the 2025–26 snooker season. Sixteen players – the tournament winners and the highest-ranked players who had not already secured a place on the main tour for the 2024–25 season – will gain entry to a further event, the WPBSA Q Tour Global Playoff. They will be joined by players from the Q Tour Global; qualifying from regional Q Tour series. These players will compete for a further three places on the World Snooker Tour.[1]

Q Tour Europe

Format

Q Tour Europe events are generally played over three days. The first day is an open qualifying day with 16 places available. The main draw starts on the second day when the 16 qualifiers are joined by the 48 seeded players who qualified based on their rankings in the 2024 Q School Orders of Merit to make a first round field of 64 players. There are two rounds on the second day and a further four on the final day, to determine the winner of the event. The 48 who qualified directly included the top 32 eligible players from the 2024 UK Q School Order of Merit, the top eight from the 2024 Asia-Oceania Q School Order of Merit, and the eight highest ranked junior players on the 2024 UK Q School Order of Merit, not already qualified.[1]

Prize fund

Each Q Tour Europe event featured a prize fund of £14,300 with the winner receiving £3,000.[2]

Schedule

The schedule for the seven Q Tour Europe events is given below.[1]

DateCountryTournamentVenueCityFieldWinnerRunner-upScoreRef.
15 Aug18 AugEvent 1Northern Snooker CentreLeeds154 Andres Petrov Ryan Thomerson4–3[3]
20 Sep22 SepEvent 2Bulgarian Snooker AcademySofia108 Dylan Emery Harvey Chandler4–3[4]
4 Oct6 Oct SwedenEvent 3SnookerhallenStockholm116 Zhao Xintong Craig Steadman4–3[5]
7 Nov10 NovEvent 4Club 200Manchester156 Zhao Xintong Ryan Davies4–2[6]
13 Dec15 Dec AustriaEvent 5Austrian Snooker AcademyVienna
10 Jan12 Jan BelgiumEvent 6Delta Moon Snooker ClubMons[7]
7 Feb9 FebEvent 7Landywood Snooker ClubGreat Wyrley

Rankings

Below are listed the leading players in the prize money rankings. The top-ranked player gets a place on the main tour for the 2024–25 season. 16 other players; the tournament winners and the highest-ranked players who have not already got a place on the main tour, will gain entry to a further event, the WPBSA Q Tour Global Playoff.[1] Players on equal points were ranked by "countback", with the player having won the most prize money in the latest event played being ranked higher.[8]

RankPlayerEvent 1 Event 2 Event 3 Event 4 Event 5 Event 6 Event 7 Total (£)
1 Zhao Xintong +0 3,000 3,000 6,000
2 Dylan Emery +3,000 900 3,900
3 Andres Petrov +3,000 300 0 0 3,300
4 Craig Steadman200 300 1,500 900 2,900
5 Ryan Davies900 0 200 1,500 2,600
6 Ryan Thomerson1,500 600 300 0 2,400
7 Harvey Chandler0 1,500 200 300 2,000
8 Steven Hallworth600 0 900 200 1,700
9 Mark Joyce600 900 200 1,700
10 Iulian Boiko600 600 300 1,500
11 Oliver Sykes200 300 300 600 1,400
12 Sean O'Sullivan0 300 300 600 1,200
13 Mateusz Baranowski0 300 900 0 1,200
14 Liam Highfield300 900 0 0 1,200
15 Connor Benzey300 200 0 600 1,100
16 Simon Blackwell900 200 1,100
17 Florian Nuessle300 200 300 200 1,000
18 James Cahill200 200 200 300 900
19 Josh Thomond200 200 200 300 900
20 Alex Clenshaw300 0 600 0 900
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+ Qualified for the play-offs

Event 1

The first Q Tour Europe event took place at Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds from 15 to 18 August 2024. Andres Petrov beat Ryan Thomerson 4–3 in the final. Petrov came from 3-1 down in both the quarter and semi-finals and, after leading 3–0, also won the final in the deciding frame. Thomerson had had to qualify to reach the last-64 stage and won a further five matches to reach the final.[3] The final-day results are given below.[9]

Event 2

The second Q Tour Europe event took place at the National Snooker Academy of Bulgaria in Sofia from 20 to 22 September 2024. Dylan Emery beat Harvey Chandler 4–3 in the final, winning the last three frames after trailing 1–3. Emery and Liam Highfield both made a 142 total clearance in the first frame of their respective semi-finals, the highest breaks of the event.[4] The final-day results are given below.[10]

Event 3

The third Q Tour Europe event took place at the Snookerhallen in Stockholm from 4 to 6 October 2024.[5] Zhao Xintong made a maximum break in his last-64 match against Shaun Liu, the first in a Q Tour event.[11] Zhao beat Craig Steadman 4–3 in the final. In the event Zhao won 8 matches and made 8 century breaks.[5] The final-day results are given below.[12]

Event 4

The fourth Q Tour Europe event took place at the Club 200 in Manchester from 7 to 10 November 2024.[6] Zhao Xintong made a maximum break in his quarter-final match against Oliver Sykes. Zhao beat Ryan Davies 4–2 in the final to win his second Q Tour Europe event in a row.[6] The final-day results are given below.[13]

Q Tour Global

The Q Tour Global will consist of regional Q Tour series held outside Europe.[1]

Americas series

Two players will qualify from a series of events organised by the Pan American Billiards and Snooker Association.

The schedule for the Q Tour Americas events is given below.

Asia-Pacific series

Two players will qualify from a series of events organised by the Asia-Pacific Snooker and Billiards Federation.

The schedule for the Q Tour Asia-Pacific events is given below.

DateCountryTournamentVenueCityFieldWinnerRunner-upScoreRef.
28 Jun30 Jun AustraliaWest Coast InternationalPot Black Snooker CentreNorth Perth44 Vinnie Calabrese Ben Foster5–4[15]
2 Aug4 Aug AustraliaFred Osbourne ClassicCommercial ClubAlbury81 Vinnie Calabrese Hassan Kerde4–2[16]
26 Sep29 Sep New ZealandNew Zealand OpenPapatoetoe Cosmopolitan ClubAuckland30 Matthew Scarborough Lawrence Millington6–3[17]
10 Oct13 Oct AustraliaBob Hawke AC Memorial Australian
Open Snooker Championship
Mounties ClubSydney92 Vinnie Calabrese Hassan Kerde6–5[18]

Middle East series

Two players will qualify from a series of events played in the Middle East.

The schedule for the Q Tour Middle East events is given below.

DateCountryTournamentVenueCityFieldWinnerRunner-upScoreRef.
21 May23 May BahrainEvent 1Bahrain Snooker AcademyManama40 Habib Subah Humood Ismail Türker4–1[19]
19 Jul21 JulEvent 2Emirates Snooker AcademyAbu Dhabi56 Ali Gharahgozlou Amin Sanjael4–1[20]
16 Jan18 Jan Saudi ArabiaEvent 3Saudi Federation Billiards and Snooker AcademyRiyadh

Notes and References

  1. Web site: WPBSA Q Tour Global Expanded for 2024/25 . 24 June 2024 . WPBSA.
  2. Web site: Entry Form – Q Tour Europe 2024/25 - Event 1 . 13 August 2024 . WPBSA.
  3. Web site: Andres Petrov Wins Q Tour Europe Title in Leeds . 19 August 2024 . WPBSA.
  4. Web site: Emery Comebacks Earns Q Tour Title . 22 September 2024 . WPBSA.
  5. Web site: Zhao Xintong Wins Q Tour Title in Sweden . 6 October 2024 . WPBSA.
  6. Web site: Zhao Xintong Completes Q Tour Double . 10 November 2024 . WPBSA.
  7. Web site: Belgium to host WPBSA Q Tour Europe Event Six . 11 October 2024 . WPBSA.
  8. Web site: World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association - 2024/25 WPBSA Q Tour Europe Rankings . WPBSA.
  9. Web site: World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association - 2024/25 Q Tour - Event One - Matches . . 19 August 2024.
  10. Web site: World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association - 2024/25 Q Tour - Event Two - Matches . . 23 September 2024.
  11. Web site: Zhao Xintong Hits Historic Q Tour Maximum in Stockholm . 5 October 2024 . WPBSA.
  12. Web site: World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association - 2024/25 Q Tour - Event Three - Results . . 1 October 2024.
  13. Web site: World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association - 2024/25 Q Tour - Event Four - Results . . 8 November 2024.
  14. Web site: Brilliant Brazilian Igor Figueiredo Claims Q Tour Glory in Rio . . 11 March 2024.
  15. Web site: Vinnie Calabrese Crowned Q Tour Asia-Pacific Event One Champion . . 1 July 2024.
  16. Web site: Vinnie Calabrese Wins Back-To-Back Q Tour Titles . . 5 August 2024.
  17. Web site: Matthew Scarborough Wins Q Tour Title in Auckland . . 30 September 2024.
  18. Web site: Vinnie Calabrese Completes Q Tour Hat-Trick . . 14 October 2024.
  19. Web site: Humood Wins Maiden Q Tour Title in Bahrain . . 23 May 2024.
  20. Web site: Q Tour Glory For Ali Gharahgozlou . . 22 July 2024.