Since the Scottish Open qualifiers, Ding Junhui's world ranking has fallen to 29th.
As early as December 11, Ding Junhui was revealed to have signed up for the single limited time competition in January next year. The single-time limited time tournament is a small ranking competition with low points, and Ding Junhui last participated in it in 2013. Yesterday, according to media news, he once again participated in the Champions League that has not participated in 3 years, although the Champions League is only an invitational tournament, but this move can see Ding Junhui's positive and enterprising attitude!
Ding Junhui's next competitions are:
Tournament:
Champions League Group 6 is held from 17 to 18 January 2022.
Ranking Tournament:
Single-time limited time event from January 20 to 23, 2022;
Welsh Open from 28 February to 6 March 2022;
The Turkish Masters will be held from March 7 to 13, 2022.
At the beginning of the season, Ding Junhui missed the Champions League, the British Open, the Northern Ireland Open and other competitions, and the debut German Masters qualifier lost to veteran Mark. Davis. In the ensuing English Open, Ding Junhui reached the round of 16 and lost to Higgins in the quarterfinals. The group stage of the champions league once again lost 3:4 to Higgins.
Group stage of the 2021 "Champions of Champions" competition
In the next two ranking matches, in the second round of the British Championship, Ding Junhui lost 3:6 to Sam. Cregie, the world ranking fell from 10th to 27th; the Scottish Open postponed the qualifier, Ding Junhui was eliminated by Zhang Anda 3:4, and the world ranking fell again to 29th.
Nowadays, the low ranking brings him a lot of pressure, Ding Junhui needs to fight for every opportunity, every point must be fought, as soon as possible to return to the world's top sixteen, and strive to have a seeded player seat at the World Championships next April!
Consecutive registrations for next year's Champions League and single-time limited time tournaments also show that Ding Junhui is beginning to pay attention to improving the rankings!
From 2011 to 2013, Ding Junhui participated in the single limited time competition three times, but unfortunately averaged one round. Today, the tournament has been upgraded from an invitational tournament to a ranking tournament, and although the prize money for the champion of the tournament is 50,000 pounds, it is still a lot of points.
2020 Single Time Limit Final
The Champions League in early 2022 is an invitational tournament. Ding Junhui once beat Trump 3:1 in the 2012 final to win the championship! The Champions League is a good practice opportunity, you need to play against all the players in the same group, this high frequency of confrontation practice can easily improve your strength and status. Ding Junhui will be with Yan Bingtao, Ritchie. Wharton competed together as a substitute in The Sixth Group.
In fact, this is not the first time that Ding Junhui has fallen out of the world's top 16.
At the 2016 China Open, Ding Junhui temporarily ranked 16th in the world, but unfortunately Ding Junhui was out of the qualifiers of this China Open and lost his seat as a seeded player at the World Championships. At the World Championships, Ding Junhui's performance was amazing! In the first round of qualifying, he defeated amateur Kathy by a score of 10:4; in the second round, he lost one set and won ten straight sets to beat Rose 10:1. Muir; eliminated veteran Bond 10-2 in the third round. In the first round of the main round, Ding Junhui defeated Gould 10:8, defeated Trump 13:10 in the second round, and defeated Mark in the quarterfinals with a 13:3 score. Williams, who shot a 7-shot break in the semi-finals and eliminated McManus 17-11, lost to Selby 14-18 in the final, the closest he had ever been to a world championship. But this runner-up also lifted his ranking from 17th in the world to 9th.
In September 2019, Ding Junhui's ranking fell to 18th again, and in the subsequent British Championship, Ding Junhui defeated Maguire in the final by a score of 10:6 to win the championship and bring him back to the top 10 in the world rankings.
However, in the next two years, Ding Junhui did not win a ranking championship again, and did not even reach the final once. After exiting the second round of the 2021 British Championship, the world ranking fell to the top 16 for the third time.
After the Scottish Open qualifiers were out, McManus spoke to Eurosport and mentioned that Ding Junhui had major problems that needed to be changed urgently.
McManus believes that Ding Junhui's skills and mentality are problematic, and Ding Junhui also has the ability to self-innovate.
"Ding Junhui's situation is actually very dangerous, and if he can't make changes in time, his ranking will inevitably and endlessly fall." He has to make all-round changes, and what he has before, except for the goal points (accuracy), must be abandoned and started from scratch, and he has to change his game grand strategy in all directions. ”
"Ding Junhui belongs to the kind of sensational player, and he was also an outstanding player in the sport, I think he seems to continue some of his wrong batting methods on white balls at the moment, and the method he needs to take at the moment is to change it radically, and he should actively participate in the tournament in order to return to the top 16 position in the world, otherwise he will need to start from the qualification tournament at next year's World Championships!"
McManus only expressed his views on Ding Junhui's current state, believing that Ding Junhui himself was more aware of the dilemma he was facing and the changes he needed to make. Returning to the top 16 in the world is only a result, the specific implementation process is particularly important, and ding Junhui's positive attitude shows us to see the possibility of his return to the world's top players. It is expected that after Ding Junhui's ranking decline this time, he will be able to play well in the next game, bottom out and rebound, and regain glory!