On January 6, the 2022 Snooker Champions League ended the competition in the fourth group, and the final world champion Bingham performed well, advancing to the final four with only third place in the round robin, and defeated the world number one Selby and Karen Wilson 3-2 in the semi-finals and the final, winning the group and advancing to the winner group. The two Chinese players who played in this group performed poorly, Xiao Guodong lost all 6 battles, the bottom of the group was out, and Lu Ning was 2 wins and 4 losses and ranked 5th, although he did not qualify for the final four, but got the opportunity to continue to play in the fifth group, and Trump was also 2 wins and 4 losses, but ranked 6th in the group, also out.
The Champions League is a special invitational tournament for the season, open to all professional players, but registration is required from the highest to the lowest. Previously, China's Liang Wenbo and Zhao Xintong won the first and third groups respectively to advance to the winner group, while Scottish former world champion Dort won the second group. In particular, in the third group that ended earlier, there were 3 Chinese players in the Champions League for the first time, and finally Zhao Xintong and Xiao Guodong performed well and defeated their opponents in the final, while Zhao Xintong won the championship with a record of 8 wins, once again showing his offensive and control ability in the game.
In addition to Xiao Guodong, Rounin, Selby and Bingham in the previous group, three former Champions League champions Trump, Karen Wilson and Donaldson were added to the fourth group. On the first day of the game, Lu Ning and Xiao Guodong performed badly, both of them were all 3 defeats, ranking the last two, but on the second day, Lu Ning seized the opportunity and defeated Xiao Guodong and Bingham successively, and won two precious victories. Xiao Guodong, on the other hand, performed badly, suffering three consecutive defeats, and finally lost six games to the bottom, but he scored a single 101 point in the third set of the match against Lu Ning, which was the 200th achievement of his career.
After six rounds of the group round robin, Karen Wilson ranked first with a record of all wins, Selby ranked second with 5 wins and 1 loss, and Bingham and Donaldson both won 3 and lost 3, ranking third and fourth, and the four advanced to the final four. In the semi-finals, Bingham played against Selby, winning two consecutive sets behind 1-2 to complete the counterattack 3-2 to advance to the final. Wilson, on the other hand, swept Donaldson 3-0 to advance to the final with Bingham. In the final showdown, Bingham and Wilson played the same very glue, Bingham in the first two sets, but wilson tenaciously equalized, dragged into the decider, the last set, Bingham did not waste the opportunity, single shot 94 points, clean sheet to complete the kill, successfully advanced to the winner group.