Snooker

What was Ronnie O’Sullivan ’s rank when he qualified at WSCH 1993. It doesn’t appear on the main topic concerning this problem.

God, I’ve read this as a “Ronnie O’Sullivan’s Prank”.

It was his rookie season so he didn’t have a rank.

From memory, during the qualifiers in Blackpool, that would take the entire summer and applied to all tournaments, his performances were so good that he shot from number 800-something to 57.
I’m only relying on memory and can’t check right now but I don’t suppose I’m very off.

There were not quite as many as that on the tour that year but it was about 600 odd and you are quite right, Ronnie ended the season ranked 57th.

Mark Williams and John Higgins also made their debuts that year along with Stephen Lee. It was Lee who was the second best “Rookie” ranked 101 with Williams 119th and Higgins 122nd.

O’Sullivan, Ronnie (England) 5 December 1975

Year Rank Prog./ Apps. MP MW ML M% FP FW L F% Highest break No. of 100s Prize Money
1993 415 0 1 17 7 10 41.2 79 £8,000
1994 57 1 1 32 13 19 40.6 86 £15,000
1995 9 QF 2 1 55 31 24 56.4 112 2 £29,000
1996 3 SF 3 1 85 50 35 58.8 139 9 £60,000
1997 8 1 1 41 22 19 53.7 147 2 £181,800
1998 7 SF 3 1 78 45 33 57.7 141 5 £66,000
1999 3 SF 3 1 86 49 37 57.0 135 7 £68,000
2000 4 0 1 19 9 10 47.4 130 5 £13,000
2001 4 Ch 5 0 110 71 39 64.5 139 9 £250,000
2002 2 SF 3 1 83 49 34 59.0 132 8 £76,000
2003 1 0 1 16 6 10 37.5 147 1 £184,000
2004 3 Ch 5 0 103 71 32 68.9 131 13 £250,000
2005 1 QF 2 1 63 34 29 54.0 137 4 £26,000
2006 1 SF 3 1 89 47 42 52.8 140 6 £50,800
Total 14 43 31 12 72.1 877 504 373 57.5 147 71 £1,277,600