Champion of Champions 2019 – Bangkok Update
Reanne Evans and Jimmy White moved a step closer to qualification for this season’s ManBetX Champion of Champions after Stephen Maguire claimed victory at the SangSom 6-Red World Championship on Saturday.
With Scotland’s Maguire already qualified for the event following his World Cup win alongside John Higgins earlier in the summer, his latest success means that there are now just four remaining counting events between now and November with 12 players therefore already assured of their places at the Ricoh Arena.
Should one of those four events be won by an already qualified player then reigning world women’s champion Reanne Evans will join the field for the first time in her career, with recently crowned world seniors king Jimmy White next in line should there be two more repeat winners. In the event of there being three or more repeat winners, the field will be completed by players based upon their world ranking, with Mark Williams and Mark Selby currently in contention.
Qualification for the event will be determined by the winners of professional tournaments dating back to Ronnie O’Sullivan’s victory in 2018, events having been ordered in a specific line of priority as set out below.
Current qualification list:
1. 2018 Champion of Champions – Ronnie O’Sullivan (1)
2. 2018 UK Championship – Ronnie O’Sullivan
3. 2019 Masters – Judd Trump (2)
4. 2019 World Championship – Judd Trump
5. 2019 German Masters – Kyren Wilson (3)
6. 2019 World Grand Prix – Judd Trump
7. 2019 Indian Open – Matt Selt (4)
8. 2019 Players Championship – Ronnie O’Sullivan
9. 2019 Championship League – Martin Gould (5)
10. 2019 Tour Championship – Ronnie O’Sullivan
11. 2019 China Open – Neil Robertson (6)
12. 2019 International Championship – Judd Trump
13. 2019 Shanghai Masters – TBC
14. 2019 China Championship – TBC
15. 2019 World Open – TBC
16. 2018 Northern Ireland Open – Judd Trump
17. 2018 Scottish Open – Mark Allen (7)
18. 2019 Welsh Open – Neil Robertson
19. 2019 English Open – TBC
20. 2019 Gibraltar Open – Stuart Bingham (8)
21. 2019 World Championship runner-up – John Higgins (9)
22. 2019 Riga Masters – Yan Bingtao (10)
23. 2019 World Cup – John Higgins
24. 2019 World Cup – Stephen Maguire (11)
25. 2019 Shoot Out – Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (12)
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26. 2019 Six Red World Championship – Stephen Maguire
27. 2019 World Women’s Snooker Championship – Reanne Evans
28. 2019 World Seniors Snooker Championship – Jimmy White
The next counting event to qualify for this year’s ManBetX Champion of Champions will be the Shanghai Masters, which runs from 9-15 September 2019 in Shanghai, China.
Learn more about the ManBetX Champion of Champions at the tournament website.
