Ronnie O'Sullivan won the only professional world championship held in 2020, defeatingKyren Wilson in the final of the2020 World Snooker Championship .Professional tournaments in table-topcue sports took place in 2020. These events includesnooker ,pool disciplines andbilliards . Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and tournaments are held as doubles or as teams.[ 1] The snooker season runs between May and April, whilst the pool and billiards seasons is listed over the calendar year. Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic , the season was disrupted with many events being cancelled or postponed. Cue sports events were played in January and February, before tournaments were discontinued for all disciplines due to the pandemic, returning in Junewithout an audience .
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the only professional world championship held during the year, theWorld Snooker Championship . The otherTriple Crown events, theUK Championship andMasters , were won byNeil Robertson andStuart Bingham , respectively. The only major pool tournament held during the year was theMosconi Cup , won by the European team.
The cue sportpool encompasses several disciplines, such asstraight pool andnine-ball . Events such as theWPA World Nine-ball Championship ,[ 2] World Pool Masters ,[ 3] and theWorld Cup of Pool ,[ 4] were all postponed to the following year due to theCOVID-19 pandemic . TheMosconi Cup , contested between select teams from the US and Europe was played in December.[ 5]
TheEuro Tour is a professionalnine-ball series run across Europe by theEuropean Pocket Billiard Federation .[ 7] There was just one event, the Treviso Open, with tournaments for both men and women.[ 8] For the list now, (m) refers to the men's event and (f) to the women's tournament.
World Billiards events [ edit ] TwoWorld Billiards events were played in 2020, the remaining devices were postponed or cancelled.[ 11] [ 12]
Three-Cushion World Cup [ edit ] TheThree-Cushion World Cup traditionally played over several events had a single tournament in 2020.[ 15]
TheWorld Snooker Tour generally begins in July and ends in May, however due to theCOVID-19 pandemic , the2019–20 snooker season ended in August, whereas the2020–21 snooker season began in September.[ 17] [ 18] Ronnie O'Sullivan won his sixthWorld Snooker Championship , defeatingKyren Wilson in the final.[ 19]
Snooker world rankings [ edit ] TheChallenge Tour is a secondary non-professional snooker tour with events for invited players.[ 39] [ 40] The final four events of the2019–20 Challenge Tour were played during 2020.
The World Seniors Tour is an amateur series open to players aged 40 and over.[ 45] There was a single event in the 2020 World Seniors Tour.[ 45]
The women's tour is an amateur tour, with one event held in Belgium during 2020.
TheEnglish Amateur Championship was played in 2020, the hundredth staging of the event.[ 48]
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