At the end of the 2022/23 season, from the 26th of this month to June 6, the professional qualification camp Q-School will start in the UK, and the two editions will determine the eight professional places for the new season. In the following period, from June 1st to 14th, the Asia-Pacific Qualification Camp will also be held in Bangkok, Thailand, and four professional places will be determined in the two phases of the competition.
Before qualifying camps begin, briefly browse the list of classes that have already been generated in the next season.
【Description】
1. Players entering the professional profession for the first time in the chart indicate the player's nationality and year of birth.
2. Players ranked 3-10 in the chart will qualify professionally for two seasons.
【Brief Comment】
1. The total number of professional players in the new season will reach 134, more than 128. Among them, the relegation of the top 68 in the world ranking at the end of the season is also a special rule, exceeding the convention of the top 64 relegation. The main reason is that there are 5 players on the list who are currently temporarily suspended, Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, Mark Jin, Lu Ning and Bai Langning.
2. The current number of Chinese players is 25, including 4 players who have been temporarily suspended.
3. Most of the first-time professional players are post-00s. The youngest is English player Stan Moody, born in 2006; Moody's is also the youngest of all professional players in the new season. The oldest is American player Ahmed Ali, both over 40 years old. I wonder if this veteran will participate in the professional game of the new season? This is related to whether the new season of world snooker still implements the 20,000 pounds subsidy guarantee plan last season, otherwise coming to the game, there is a high probability of being reversed. (See: [Single-season total prize money ranking] Ding Junhui earns 300,000 pounds; 32 "low-income households" were subsidized) China's new professional players, 4 post-00s, plus a post-90s "veteran" Long Zehuang.
(Image transferred from the World Snooker WST website.) ）
4. The female players were selected for two, the ST Women's World Champion Siri Papong and the highest ranked Evans on the Women's Circuit. In this way, with the addition of Mink Winharutai and Rebecca, the new season is the same as last season, with four female players. Bai Yulu, who recently won the women's British Open, has signed up for Q-School, but it is difficult to qualify.
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