Coral Race To Continue In Dornbirn And Berlin
The race to qualify for the first Coral Series event of the season will conclude during the final stages of the BetVictor European Masters and BetVictor German Masters.
Only the top 32 players on the one-year ranking list at the end of the Berlin event – come February 2nd – will qualify for the Coral World Grand Prix, which starts on February 3rd in Cheltenham.
The qualifying rounds have already been played for the BetVictor European Masters (results here) and BetVictor German Masters (results here) so any player now outside the top 32 who has not qualified for either event is out of the running.
Woollaston – must rely on other results
Ben Woollaston currently clings on to 32nd spot but having failed to qualify for either event he’ll need other results to go his way to keep his place for Cheltenham.
He has a gap of just £2,500 over 35th-placed Scott Donaldson who has made it to both Dornbirn and Berlin, so if Donaldson wins two matches in either event to reach the quarter-finals he’ll go ahead of Woollaston.
Places from 25th to 38th as it stands (including money won the in the qualifiers):
| Player | Money | Qualified for Austria? | Qualified for Germany? | |
| 25 | Matthew Selt | £51,750 | No | Yes |
| 26 | Matthew Stevens | £50,750 | No | No |
| 27 | Li Hang | £50,500 | No | No |
| 28 | Zhao Xintong | £50,250 | Yes | Yes |
| 29 | Michael Holt | £50,000 | Yes | No |
| 30 | Zhou Yuelong | £49,250 | Yes | No |
| 31 | Xiao Guodong | £49,000 | Yes | No |
| 32 | Ben Woollaston | £46,250 | No | No |
| 33 | Hossein Vafaei | £46,000 | No | No |
| 34 | Ricky Walden | £44,750 | No | No |
| 35 | Scott Donaldson | £43,750 | Yes | Yes |
| 36 | Anthony McGill | £43,000 | No | Yes |
| 37 | Mark Joyce | £41,250 | No | No |
| 38 | Luca Brecel | £40,500 | Yes | Yes |
There are a further four players – Robbie Williams, Jak Jones, Tian Pengfei, Robert Milkins – who have qualified for both events so they each have two chances to jump up the list and earn a spot in the first event of the lucrative Coral Series.
With top prizes of £80,000 up for grabs in both Dornbirn and Berlin, every player still in either event has a chance.
The subsequent two Coral Series events are:
Coral Players Championship, Southport Waterfront, February 24 to March 1. Top 16 on the one-year list after the BetVictor Shoot Out will qualify.
Coral Tour Championship, Llandudno, March 17-22. Top eight on the one-year list after the BetVictor Gibraltar Open will qualify.
 Tickets for the Coral World Grand Prix at the magnificent Centaur venue at Cheltenham Racecourse are on sale now and start at just £15 – for details click here.