On January 23, the 2022 World Snooker Tour Single Time Limit ended the last day of competition, and all the players who advanced to the Round of 32 needed to go through five matches in one day until the final champion was decided. In the end, the famous Hussein Wafi from Iran performed well, winning consecutive victories, reversing China's only qualifier Liang Wenbo in the semi-finals, scoring a single shot again in the final, and the 8th place in the world ranking mark Williams with a clean sheet, not only won his first ranking championship, but also the first snooker ranking championship in Iranian history. At the same time, Wafi received a prize of £50,000 for the championship and a maximum of £5,000 for a single shot.
Since the official promotion from the Invitational Tournament to the Ranking Tournament in 2017, there has been no record of the top 16 seeded players in the world rankings winning the championship, and in the past five years, a number of New Branch Ranking Champions have been born, including George U from Cyprus, Tachaia Uno from Thailand, as well as Holt in England and Ryan Day in Wales. In this year's single limited time competition, Ding Junhui, a chinese brother, originally signed up for the competition after many years, but because of a cold and fever before the competition, he had to regret his retirement after arriving and failed to appear. The other 22 players, after two rounds, only Liang Wenbo was left alone to break into the round of 32.
The most eye-catching performance in this tournament is from Iran, known as the "Prince of Persia", Wafi, who exploded in the first round against Dwelli, scoring 123 points, creating the first shot of this year's single limited time tournament and the record of the 23rd in history. In the second round, he again played a winning performance, beating Pinches by 83 points. He won the next three rounds with ease, defeating two amateurs, including former tournament champion Georgiou. In the semifinals, he met with China's Liang Wenbo, and although Liang Wenbo led by 48 points in the first shot, Wafi withstood the pressure and achieved a big reversal, playing another 54-point performance. In the final, facing Williams, only let the opponent open a shot, and then scored 71 points to complete the super point, Williams directly stripped forward to congratulate.
The special one-time limited time event once again witnessed the birth of a new ranking champion, wafi played an extremely gorgeous performance after three days, and the final victory was also a perfect transformation. With a £50,000 prize from the victory, Wafi's world ranking plummeted 19 places to 23rd. At the same time, he also has a good chance to participate in next month's Players Tournament and the Champions League Invitational Tournament in the second half of the year. In the latest world ranking list, the Chinese legion is still Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao in the top 16, Zhou Yuelong dropped to 19th, Ding Junhui also continued to decline, to 30th, Xiao Guodong 31st, and Liang Wenbo rose two places to 32nd. In this single-time limited time competition, Liang Wenbo performed well and once again entered the final four of the ranking competition, which is a long-lost performance improvement.