The 2021–22 Q Tour is a series of snooker tournaments taking place during the 2021–22 snooker season.
The Q Tour is the second-tier tour, run by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, for players not on the main World Snooker Tour.
Initially announced in July 2020, the tour was delayed by a year and started in late 2021.
Format
Events are played over three days.
The first day is an open qualifying day with 16 places available.
The main draw starts on the second day when the 16 qualifiers are joined by the 48 seeded players who qualified based on their rankings in the 2021 Q School Order of Merit to make a first round field of 64 players.
There are 3 rounds on the second day and a further three on the final day, to determine the winner of the event.
The 48 who qualify directly include the top 40 ranked players not currently on the main tour and a further 8 under-21 players outside this top 40.
Prize fund
Each event featured a prize fund of £12,000 with the winner receiving £2,500.
Winner: £2,500
Runner-up: £1,200
Semi-final: £750
Quarter-final: £550
Last 16: £275
Last 32: £150
Total: £12,000
Participants
The following 48 players were eligible to play.
Players who decided not to complete were replaced by players further down the 2021 Q School Order of Merit.
Sanderson Lam
Michael Georgiou
Si Jiahui
Soheil Vahedi
Michael White
David Lilley
Ross Muir
John Astley
Bai Langning
James Cahill
Dylan Emery
Mark Lloyd
Simon Blackwell
Haydon Pinhey
Billy Castle
Kuldesh Johal
Rod Lawler
Leo Fernandez
Robbie McGuigan
Daniel Womersley
Ryan Davies
Michael Collumb
Luke Pinches
Joshua Thomond
Saqib Nasir
Niel Vincent
Sydney Wilson
Ben Fortey
Alex Millington
Ben Mertens
Tony Knowles
Oliver Brown
Brian Cini
Paul Davies
Ross Vallance
Luo Honghao
Ross Bulman
Paul Davison
Dylan Mitchell
Sean Harvey
Under-21 players:
Hayden Staniland
Jenson Kendrick
Florian Nüßle
Hamim Hussain
Liam Pullen
Julien Leclercq
Callum Beresford
Liam Graham
Top-up players:
Ian Martin
Harvey Chandler
Eden Sharav
Joshua Cooper
Lee Shanker
Alex Taubman
Brandon Sargeant
Brian Ochoiski
Lewis Gillen
Schedule
The provisional schedule for the four events is given below.
A play-off tournament with 16 players is also planned.
Rankings
Below are the leading players in the prize money rankings after Event 2.
Event 1
The first event took place at Castle Snooker Club, Brighton, from 19 to 21 November 2021.
David Lilley beat Si Jiahui 5–1 in the final.
The final-day results are given below.
Event 2
The second event was held at the Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli from 10 to 12 December.
Si Jiahui beat Michael White 5–4 in the final.
Si led 4–0 before White won the next four frames to take the match to a decider.
The final-day results are given below.
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