2024–25 Q Tour: Difference between revisions

The 2024–25 Q Tour is a series of snooker tournaments to take 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 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]

Each Q Tour Europe event featured a prize fund of £14,300 with the winner receiving £3,000.^[2]

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	108				[4]
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

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.^[5]

	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

The second Q Tour Europe event is taking place at the National Snooker Academy of Bulgaria in Sofia from 20 to 22 September 2024.^[4] The final-day results will be given below.^[6]

The Q Tour Global will consist of regional Q Tour series held outside Europe.^[1]

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	[7]

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	[8]
2 Aug	4 Aug	AUS	Fred Osbourne Classic	Commercial Club	Albury	81	Vinnie Calabrese	Hassan Kerde	4–2	[9]

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	[10]
19 Jul	21 Jul	UAE	Event 2	Emirates Snooker Academy	Abu Dhabi	56	Ali Gharahgozlou	Amin Sanjael	4–1	[11]