With the snooker Champions League Group II competition coming to an end, all the snooker events of 2021 have come to an end, and both professional and amateur players will usher in a short Christmas and New Year's Holiday. In the past year, the world snooker has witnessed countless highlight moments, some people are happy and some are sad, for the sport, whether it is a veteran or a newcomer, they are using their practical actions to repay the achievements brought by this sport. This year, let's take a brief inventory of the top champions and see who set snooker's title record.
Spanning the first and second half of the two seasons in 2021, there will be a total of 19 major events, including 15 ranking tournaments and 4 invitational tournaments. If you want to ask who is the champion of the year, it must be the leader of the new generation, the "ace" Trump, who won the German Masters, the Gibraltar Open and the crown three times. Robertson, Selby and Williams each won two titles. In addition, 10 people, including O'Sullivan, Higgins, Allen, Gilbert, Jordan Brown, Ryan Day, Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong, Brechel, and Karen Wilson, won 1 event each. Although Trump's three titles did not have three major tournaments with higher gold content, it did not prevent him from becoming the person who won the most titles.
Who is the person who has reached the most finals in the whole year? This man is the older and more demon "wizard" Higgins, he reached a total of 6 finals, namely the Masters, the Players Championship, the Northern Ireland Open, the English Open, the Crown championship and the Scottish Open, but in the end he only won the Championship at the Players Championship, and the other 5 final trips were finally runners-up, becoming the five asian kings of the year, comparable to last season's O'Sullivan's single-season five consecutive Asian embarrassing records. But Higgins, who is 46 years old, can still reach so many finals of the competition, and there should be more reflection for young players.
Of course, in the past year, the performance of young players is not without highlights, the opening year of the Masters, China's post-00s rising star Yan Bingtao achieved a major breakthrough, he won the championship in one fell swoop, becoming the first post-00 player to win the championship of the three major competitions, when he was only 20 years old and 336 days old. In addition, Zhao Xintong won the British Championship at the end of the year, and two new stars from China won two of the three major competitions, which is indeed very rare. In addition, Karen Wilson, Brechel and other post-90s players have also won the account, saving face for the younger generation of players.
The oldest champion was Williams, who won the British Open at the age of 46 years and 154 days. In 2021, it also witnessed the breakthrough of three professional ranking champions, namely Welsh Open champion Jordan Brown, Champions League champion Gilbert and British Championship champion Zhao Xintong.