WDBS Rankings | Irish Open 2025 Update
The official WDBS rankings have been updated following the 2025 Irish Open held at the SBI HQ in Carlow, Ireland.
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The WDBS ranking system includes individual ranking lists for each of the main classification groups, with players earning points from based upon their finishing position at designated ranking tournaments.
The rankings operate on a rolling two-year basis, with points earned during 2023/24 to be removed during the course of this season. At this revision points earned at the 2025 Irish Open were added with no points removed.
KELLY GOES TOP
Ireland’s Daniel Kelly has become the world number one in the ambulant Group 3 classification after winning the Irish Open title on home soil for a third successive year.
The 45-year-old Irishman becomes the top ranked player in his classification group for the first time in his career after remarkably winning the last six WDBS ranking events that he has entered.
Kelly’s achievement sees him end the lengthy spell of Kal Mattu as the world number one after he fell in the group stage in Carlow. Peter Hull, who reached the final before losing out to Kelly at the SBI HQ, has narrowed the gap on second placed Mattu to 14,450 points as the race for the season-ending Champion of Champions heats up.
BUTT AND DRENNAN RETURN TO SUMMIT
Mohammed Faisal Butt and Luke Drennan have regained the world number one positions in Group 6A and Group 8 respectively following runs to the finals in Carlow last weekend.
Butt has overtaken Scotland’s Alan Reynolds, who was absent from the Irish Open, after a run to the title match that saw him defeated by Ryan Ryding at the final hurdle.
Despite also being defeated in the last stage by Lewis Knowles, Drennan returns to the world number one position in the deaf classification group just over one month after losing the top spot to Gary Taylor.
KEY MOVERS
Ryan Ryding and Lewis Knowles have each moved up one place to third position in Group 6A and Group 8 respectively by lifting the title at the Irish Open.
For Ryding, it represents a career-high placing after lifting the second ranking event title of his career and both players have put themselves in contention for the Champion of Champions.
In Group 6A, Alan Archer climbs two places up to sixth while fellow semi-finalist Shea Fell debuts in the ranking list at 14th following a last four run in his first WDBS Tour event.
Semi-final places, meanwhile, for Blake Munton and Francis Coyle in Group 8 have seen both rise three positions to fifth and ninth respectively – Coyle taking his place in the top ten for the first time.
Elsewhere, Patrick O’Rourke’s quarter-final finish has seen him climb six places from 18th to 12th in Group 4 while a similar feat for Christopher Woodward in Group 6B rises him to eighth. There is also a return to the top 10 in the world for Alex Hennebry despite an early exit in his home country last weekend.
Further information about the 2026 WDBS Tour calendar will be announced in due course.
