Iran's first brother ranking soared! The 2 youngsters became the facade of China's snooker, and Ding Junhui fell again. The 2022 snooker limited time tournament has come to an end, Iran's brother Hussein Wafi won the final, defeated the "golden left hand" Mark Williams, won the first ranking championship trophy of his career, and also won a prize of 50,000 pounds, with the end of this ranking tournament, the World Taiwan Federation also announced the latest edition of the world rankings, compared with the previous period, there are still some changes.
After receiving a £50,000 prize, Hussein Wafi's world rankings soared, rising from 42nd in the previous period to 23rd now, instantly improving by 19 places and becoming the biggest winner. The top nine in the world are the same as the previous issue, namely Mark Selby, Judd Trump, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Neil Robertson, Karen Wilson, John Higgins, Sean Murphy, Mark Williams, and Zhao Xintong. Although Chinese teenager Zhao Xintong was eliminated in the first round of the single-time limited time tournament, this did not affect his world ranking, he is still in the ninth place in the world, and is also the only Chinese player in the top ten in the world ranking. Stephen Maguire overtook Barry Hawkins to tenth place, Barry Hawkins dropped to 11th, and 12th to 16th places were Mark Allen, Stewart Bingham, Anthony McGill, Yan Bingtao, and Luka Brechel.
China's post-00s young player Yan Bingtao also participated in the single limited time competition, but he was also eliminated in the first round, fortunately, Yan Bingtao's previous points were enough, so it still ranked 15th in the world, after Ding Junhui fell out of the world's top 16, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao have become the façade of China's snooker, and both are still very young, the youngest two of the world's top 16 players, the next two will also participate in the German Masters together, because the two are still in the world's top 16, Therefore, they will play as seeded players, and if the two can achieve good results, there is hope to continue to improve the world rankings.
Zhou Yuelong's world ranking has slipped one place and is currently ranked 19th, because of the gap of nearly 70,000 pounds with Brechel in 16th place, it is difficult for Zhou Yuelong to enter the top 16 in the world in the short term. Ding Junhui's world ranking also slipped one place to the 30th place, although Ding Junhui also signed up for a single limited time competition, but due to pre-game fever, forced to withdraw from the game, from the current situation, Ding Junhui wants to return to the world's top 16 is not easy, can keep the current world ranking is not bad, it is not good to get it and may fall out of the top 30.