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 balls. The game developed its own identity in 1884 when its first set of rules was finalised by Sir Neville Chamberlain, an English officer who helped develop and popularise the game at Stone House in Ooty on a table built by Burroughes & Watts that was brought over by boat. The word "snooker" was a slang term for first-year cadets and inexperienced military personnel, but Chamberlain would often use it to describe the inept performance of one of his fellow officers at the table. The name instantly stuck with the players. In 1887, snooker was given its first definite reference