2024–25 Q Tour
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The 2024–25 Q Tour is a series of snooker tournaments to took 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
[edit]Format
[edit]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
[edit]Each Q Tour Europe event featured a prize fund of £14,300 with the winner receiving £3,000.[2]
- Winner: £3,000
- Runner-up: £1,500
- Semi-final: £900
- Quarter-final: £600
- Last 16: £300
- Last 32: £200
- Total: £14,300
Schedule
[edit]The schedule for the seven Q Tour Europe events is given below.[1]
| Date | Country | Tournament | Venue | City | Field | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Aug | 18 Aug |  ENG
|
Event 1 | Northern Snooker Centre | Leeds | 154 |  Andres Petrov
|
 Ryan Thomerson
|
4–3 | [3] |
| 20 Sep | 22 Sep |  BUL
|
Event 2 | Bulgarian Snooker Academy | Sofia | |||||
| 4 Oct | 6 Oct |  SWE
|
Event 3 | Snookerhallen | Stockholm | |||||
| 8 Nov | 10 Nov | ENG
|
Event 4 | Club200 | Manchester | |||||
| 13 Dec | 15 Dec |  AUT
|
Event 5 | Vienna | ||||||
| 10 Jan | 12 Jan |  SUI
|
Event 6 | Zurich | ||||||
| 7 Feb | 9 Feb | ENG
|
Event 7 | Landywood Snooker Club | Great Wyrley | |||||
Event 1
[edit]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.[4]
| Last-16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 7 frames | Semi-finals Best of 7 frames | Final Best of 7 frames | |||||||||||
| Hamim Hussain | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Andres Petrov | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Andres Petrov | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Simon Bedford | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Simon Bedford | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Alex Clenshaw | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Andres Petrov | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Simon Blackwell | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Mark Joyce | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Peter Lines | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Mark Joyce | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Simon Blackwell | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Alex Millington | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Simon Blackwell | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Andres Petrov | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Ryan Thomerson | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Liam Highfield | 2 | |||||||||||||
 Iulian Boiko | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Iulian Boiko | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ryan Davies | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Florian Nuessle | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ryan Davies | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Ryan Davies | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Ryan Thomerson | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Ryan Thomerson | 4 | |||||||||||||
 Umut Dikme | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ryan Thomerson | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Steven Hallworth | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Connor Benzey | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Steven Hallworth | 4 | |||||||||||||
Q Tour Global
[edit]The Q Tour Global will consist of regional Q Tour series held outside Europe.[1]
Americas series
[edit]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.
| Date | Country | Tournament | Venue | City | Field | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Mar | 10 Mar |  BRA
|
Event 1 | H Niteroi Hotel | Rio de Janeiro | 37 | Igor Figueiredo
|
Noel Rodrigues Moreira
|
5–1 | [5] |
Asia-Pacific series
[edit]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.
| Date | Country | Tournament | Venue | City | Field | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jun | 30 Jun | AUS
|
West Coast International | Pot Black Snooker Centre | North Perth | 44 | Vinnie Calabrese
|
Ben Foster
|
5–4 | [6] |
| 2 Aug | 4 Aug | AUS
|
Fred Osbourne Classic | Commercial Club | Albury | 81 | Vinnie Calabrese
|
Hassan Kerde
|
4–2 | [7] |
Middle East series
[edit]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.
| Date | Country | Tournament | Venue | City | Field | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May | 23 May |  BHR
|
Event 1 | Bahrain Snooker Academy | Manama | 40 | Habib Subah Humood
|
 Ismail Türker
|
4–1 | [8] |
| 19 Jul | 21 Jul |  UAE
|
Event 2 | Emirates Snooker Academy | Abu Dhabi | 56 |  Ali Gharahgozlou
|
Amin Sanjael
|
4–1 | [9] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "WPBSA Q Tour Global Expanded for 2024/25". WPBSA. 24 June 2024.
- ^ "Entry Form – Q Tour Europe 2024/25 - Event 1" (PDF). WPBSA. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Andres Petrov Wins Q Tour Europe Title in Leeds". WPBSA. 19 August 2024.
- ^ "World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association - 2024/25 Q Tour - Event One - Matches". WPBSA. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "Brilliant Brazilian Igor Figueiredo Claims Q Tour Glory in Rio". WPBSA. 11 March 2024.
- ^ "Vinnie Calabrese Crowned Q Tour Asia-Pacific Event One Champion". WPBSA. 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Vinnie Calabrese Wins Back-To-Back Q Tour Titles". WPBSA. 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Humood Wins Maiden Q Tour Title in Bahrain". WPBSA. 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Amir Sarkhosh Secures Q Tour Middle East Double". WPBSA. 17 January 2024.