The top 16 seeds for the 2024 Cazoo World Championship are now confirmed, they are:
Luca Brecel
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Judd Trump
Mark Allen
Mark Selby
Shaun Murphy
Ding Junhui
Ali Carter
Mark Williams
Zhang Anda
Gary Wilson
Kyren Wilson
John Higgins
Tom Ford
Barry Hawkins
Robert Milkins
Note this is not the final seeding order, as the seedings can still change at next week's Johnstone's Paint Tour Championship in Manchester.
Neil Robertson could have kept his top 16 spot by winning last week's Huading Nylon World Open in Yushan, but he lost in the semi-finals which means he faces the qualifying rounds for the first time since 2006. Robert Milkins hangs on to 16th spot, where he will stay as he has not qualified for Manchester. Tom Ford will be a seed at the Crucible for the first time in his career.
The Cazoo World Championship qualifiers - for all other tour players plus 16 amateurs - will run from April 8-17 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, with the draw to be made soon.
The draw for the Johnstone's Paint Tour Championship is now confirmed - click here to see the draw - and the match schedule will be announced soon. Prize money for the event in Manchester is:
Winner: £150,000
Runner-up: £60,000
Semi-finals: £40,000
Quarter-finals: £30,000
First round: £20,000
High break: £10,000
Total: £500,000
Note that prize money for players losing their first match - in either the opening round or the quarter-finals - does count towards their ranking.
Judd Trump won in Yushan, his fifth ranking title of the season, and his earnings tally for ranking events alone in 2023/24 is now £711,000, well ahead of second-placed Ronnie O'Sullivan on £435,500. Including invitation events and bonuses, both players have now earned more than £1 million this season, with O'Sullivan on £1,155,500 and Trump on £1,061,000.
Ding Junhui was runner-up in China and the £73,000 prize boosted him to fourth on the one-year list, which seeds him straight into the quarter-finals in Manchester.
On the two-year list, O'Sullivan is still on top and by next week will have been world number one for two years, the longest unbroken run of his career. However Trump will be within striking distance in Manchester - just £18,000 behind on the provisional list - so has a chance to be world number one heading to the Crucible.
Jackson Page enjoyed the best run of his career so far, reaching the semi-finals, and he jumps from 52nd to 43rd.