Snooker season 2009/2010 Snooker season 2009/2010 The snooker season 2009/10 was a series of snooker tournaments played between 16 May 2009 and 8 May 2010. There were six ranking events, two less than in the previous season. The Bahrain Championship was not held again, and the Northern Ireland Classic was removed from the calendar too. The Jiangsu Classic was held for the first time. Note: new means in these case, that these players were not on the 2008/2009 professional Main Tour. The following table outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events. The top 16 of the world
Snooker status as the regular ranking tournaments. However, this event has been taken out of the tour since 2013, when the Champion of Champions was established. There are also other tournaments that have less importance, earn no world ranking points and are not televised. These can change on a year-to-year basis depending on calendars and sponsors. In 2015, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association submitted an unsuccessful bid for snooker to be played at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Another bid has been put forward for Paris 2024 through the newly formed World Snooker Federation. Several players, such as