Updated world snooker rankings after the 2026 World Open: Un-Nooh rockets up the ratings

The Thai cueist claimed the biggest title of his career to date following his memorable 10-7 final victory over Ronnie O'Sullivan in Yushan.

Un-Nooh produced a sensational four-frame burst at the end to secure the crown, a sequence that featured three consecutive total clearances, including a maximum 147 break.

Collecting a top prize of £175,000 - well over double his previous highest payday in the sport - Un-Nooh goes from 39th to 22nd in the updated global rankings.

The 40-year-old also managed to gatecrash his way into next week's 12-player Tour Championship through qualification on the one-year list.

Should Un-Nooh win that title in Manchester, he would break back into the world's top 16 and be a seed player at the Crucible Theatre for the 2026 World Snooker Championship.

World number one Judd Trump’s lead cut

There are no positional changes within the top eight of the world rankings after the World Open festivities in the Far East.

However, world number one Judd Trump - despite being a semi-finalist in Yushan last week - lost a six-figure sum from his rolling tally due to defending the £170,000 top prize he won in the same event two years earlier.

Kyren Wilson remains the world number two, but hasn't qualified for the Tour Championship, and the 2024 World Champion is defending half-a-million pounds from his total at the Crucible in a few weeks time.

It was a very positive week in China for World Open runner-up O'Sullivan.

Having revealed to putting in hard graft on the practice table in a bid to rediscover some of his consistent top form, 'The Rocket' moves up two spots and back into the top 10 of the world rankings.

Xiao Guodong (now 9th), Mark Allen (now 14th) and Si Jiahui (now 15th) all went up one step in the updated standings.

Barry Hawkins (now 11th) and Ding Junhui (now 16th) - neither of whom were in Yushan last week - both drop two places.

Of the current world's top 16, only Ding is in danger of slipping out of the sport's elite bracket before the World Championship. The only way he can be replaced is if Un-Nooh wins the Tour Championship title.

The top 16 after the 2026 Tour Championship will all be seeds for the Crucible, everyone lower than this will need to attend the qualifying rounds held shortly before the televised, main venue stages.

Reigning world champion Zhao Xintong will be the number one seed in Sheffield at the top of the draw, while world number one Trump will be seed two at the bottom. The remaining seed positions will be determined by the world rankings.

The 16 seeds will be randomly drawn against the 16 qualifiers in round one, although their positions in the draw are fixed as per their seedings, so if the seeds make round two at the Crucible, it would be 1 v 16, 2 v 15 etc.

Further down the latest world rankings, Jackson Page drops four places from 32nd to 36th.

Latvian teenager Artemijs Zizins reached the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time at the World Open and he has given himself a brilliant chance of retaining his professional tour card for next season through the one-year list.

For the full, unofficial updated world rankings list after the 2026 World Open, visit snooker.org here.