The 2023-2024 season of the Snooker Pro League is coming to an end, and the World Championship will be held after the end of this season's Tour Championship, and the World Championship will also be the last event of the Snooker Pro League this season, and on April 6, 2024, Beijing time, Snooker officially announced some of the events in the next season. There will also be changes to the local series next season, and the prize money for a single season will continue to increase.
There are four tournaments in the series: the Northern Ireland Open, the English Open, the Scottish Open and the Welsh Open. And next season's change, in addition to the local series, will also add the German Masters. In these five sub-tournaments, the top 32 players in the world will directly qualify for the main tournament and be ranked in the rankings. The players behind them will go through two rounds of qualifying rounds against the top 32 players in the world. And next season, judging from the world rankings, the top 32 in the world will also become crucial. At present, there are still many Chinese snooker players who have advanced to the top 32 in the world. The top 32 players in the world will play two less qualifying rounds and go straight to the main match to participate in the 64-32 matchup. Many players are also hungry for a place in the top 32 in the world, and the other competitions have not changed much, but they are still needed for the same season as last season. The fate can only be decided by playing one round of qualifying rounds before the main event.
Such a tournament is a better chance for the top 32 players in the world to win the title, but for the players behind them, their prize money will be further boosted by passing two rounds of qualification. In the field of snooker, you will also get a win-win situation. In addition, in next season's snooker professional league, the Xi'an Grand Prix and the Saudi Masters will be introduced. Also, next season's. The total prize money for a single season will also be close to £20 million, if any. It is likely to break £20 million after it is finalised. Moreover, snooker officials also announced that there are likely to be at least two or three players with single-season bonuses that will exceed one million pounds, and judging from the situation of this season, Trump and O'Sullivan's single-season bonuses have exceeded one million, and snooker officials also said that there will be even more players, and single-season bonuses are likely to exceed one million pounds!
Mainland player Ding Junhui's performance this season has been very stable, and the world ranking has been among the top eight. In the next single season, Ding Junhui's world ranking is also likely to hit the world's top five, or even the world's top three. Ding Junhui still has strong combat effectiveness. If you can look at the season performance of winning five championships in a single season, Ding Junhui is still likely to exceed one million in prize money in a single season. And if more players exceed one million in prize money in a single season, that's for the world rankings. The gap between the top and bottom players will widen.