Tour Championship Snooker Preview, Stats, Draw and Results

Tour Championship 2024: Format Change and Qualification Criteria

The Tour Championship 2024 was played at Manchester Central between the 1st and 7th of April and involved a format change on previous years with the field extended from eight players to twelve.

The top twelve players in the one-year ranking list after the World Open participated in Manchester. 

Below is the one-year standings that has been used for this event. All stats are correct prior to the start of the Tour Championship:

Tour Championship: Draw and Results

Mark Williams defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-5 to win his second ranking event of the season.

Williams was in superb form all week defeating Tom Ford, Judd Trump, Mark Allen and O'Sullivan to lift the trophy.

The 2024 Tour Championship sees the field extended to twelve players for the first time with the top four seeds moving straight through to the quarter-finals.

All matches are played over nineteen frames.

Final

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Williams 5-10

Semi-Finals

Mark Allen v Mark Williams 5-10

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Gary Wilson 10-7

Quarter-finals:

Judd Trump v Mark Williams 4-10

Ding Junhui v Mark Allen 8-10

Zhang Anda v Gary Wilson 8-10

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ali Carter 10-2

Round One:

Mark Williams v Tom Ford 10-9

Mark Allen v John Higgins 10-7

Gary Wilson v Mark Selby 10-8

Barry Hawkins v Ali Carter 8-10

Tour Championship 2024: Season Tournament Winners

The Tour Championship focuses on the top twelve players of the season but who has been winning events on the tour so far in 2023/24?

Below is a table of all the tournament winners and ruuners-up for this season:

Tour Championship 2024: Previous Winners

The Tour Championship was introduced in 2019 and is the only event, other than the World Championship, where all matches are played over two sessions. Neil Robertson is the only player to have won the Tour Championship more than once with his back-to-back victories in 2021 and 2022: