2018–19 Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour 2018/2019 is a series of snooker tournaments taking place during the 2018/2019 season. It is a second-tier tour for players not on the main tour.[1] The top two players in the final rankings earn a two-year card to the World Snooker Tour for 2019/2020.[2]
Each event has a maximum field of 64. The leading 64 players in the 2018 Q School Order of Merit, excluding the 12 who qualified for the main tour, are automatically eligible to play. If some of these do not enter, eight wildcards become eligible and if there are still less than 64 entries, players outside the top-64 in the Q School Order of Merit can enter.[1]
All matches are over five frames. The winner of each event receives prize money of £2,000 out of a total of £10,000. The runner-up receives £1,000, semi-finalists £700, quarter-finalists £500, last-16 losers £200 and last-32 losers £125.[3]
Schedule
Date | Country | Tournament | Venue | City | Field | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. | |
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2 June | 3 June | ENG | Event 1 | Meadowside Leisure Centre | Burton upon Trent | 59 | Brandon Sargeant | Luke Simmonds | 3–1 | [4] |
10 July | 11 July | ENG | Event 2 | Preston Guild Hall | Preston | 64 | David Grace | Mitchell Mann | 3–0 | [5] |
28 July | 28 July | LAT | Event 3 | Arena Riga | Riga | 25 | Barry Pinches | Jackson Page | 3–2 | [6] |
27 Aug | 28 Aug | GER | Event 4 | Stadthalle | Fürth | 42 | Mitchell Mann | Dylan Emery | 3–0 | [7] |
18 Sep | 19 Sep | ENG | Event 5 | Cueball Derby | Derby | 61 | David Lilley | Brandon Sargeant | 3–1 | [8] |
4 Oct | 5 Oct | BEL | Event 6 | De Soeverein | Lommel | 40 | David Grace | Ben Hancorn | 3–0 | [9] |
13 Oct | 14 Oct | ENG | Event 7 | Barnsley Metrodome | Barnsley | 61 | Joel Walker | Jenson Kendrick | 3–0 | [10] |
24 Nov | 25 Nov | HUN | Event 8 | Snooker Terminál | Budapest | |||||
26 Jan | 27 Jan | ENG | Event 9 | Star Snooker Academy | Sheffield | |||||
13 Mar | 14 Mar | Event 10 |
Source: [11]
The event at Riga was planned for two days, but with only 25 entries, it was played in a single day.
Eligible players
The leading 64 players in the 2018 Q School Order of Merit, excluding the 12 who qualified for the main tour, are automatically eligible to play:[1][12]
- Farakh Ajaib
- Simon Bedford
- James Cahill
- Greg Casey
- Shane Castle
- Jamie Cope
- David Craggs
- Jeff Cundy
- Jamie Curtis-Barrett
- Matthew Day
- Lee Dae-gyu
- Peter Devlin
- Himanshu Dinesh Jain
- Adam Duffy
- Adam Edge
- Dylan Emery
- Leo Fernandez
- John Foster
- Felix Frede
- David Grace
- Brandon Hall
- Steven Hallworth
- Ben Hancorn
- Hu Hao
- Kristján Helgason
- Andy Hicks
- Anthony Jeffers
- Liu Jiaming
- Kuldesh Johal
- Michael Judge
- Ning Kang
- David Lilley
- Callum Lloyd
- Sean Maddocks
- Mitchell Mann
- Jamie McArdle
- Geng Mingqi
- Jake Nicholson
- Heikki Niva
- Brian Ochoiski
- Phil O'Kane
- Jamie O'Neill
- Jackson Page
- Fraser Patrick
- Barry Pinches
- Haydon Pinhey
- Andreas Ploner
- Dechawat Poomjaeng
- Laxman Rawat
- Chae Ross
- Brandon Sargeant
- Luke Simmonds
- Andrew Smith
- Ma Tingpeng
- Lucky Vatnani
- Joel Walker
- Charlie Walters
- Patrick Whelan
- Sydney Wilson
- Fang Xiongman
- Wang Yuchen
- Long Zehuang
- Wang Zepeng
- Chen Zhe
Rankings
The current leaders in the rankings after five events are:
Rank | Player | Event 1 | Event 2 | Event 3 | Event 4 | Event 5 | Total (£) |
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1 | Mitchell Mann | 700 | 1,000 | 500 | 2,000 | 500 | 4,700 |
2 | Brandon Sargeant | 2,000 | 700 | 700 | 200 | 1,000 | 4,600 |
3 | David Grace | 700 | 2,000 | 200 | 500 | 125 | 3,525 |
4 | Barry Pinches | 0 | 0 | 2,000 | 125 | 500 | 2,625 |
5 | David Lilley | 200 | – | – | – | 2,000 | 2,200 |
6 | Steven Hallworth | 0 | 700 | 500 | 500 | 200 | 1,900 |
Source: [13]
Players currently in the qualifying places are shown in green.
References
- ^ a b c "World Snooker Challenge Tour 2018/19". World Snooker. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Nominations Announced". World Snooker. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Prize Money". World Snooker. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Sargeant Rises To the Challenge". World Snooker. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Grace Beats Mann In Challenge Final". World Snooker. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Pinches Wins Challenge Tour Event Three". World Snooker. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Mann wins Challenge Tour Four". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Event Five Draw". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Event Six Draw and Format". World Snooker. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Event Seven Draw and Format". World Snooker. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ^ "Calendar 2018/2019" (PDF). World Snooker. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ^ "Q School Order of Merit". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Rankings". World Snooker. Retrieved 13 August 2018.