On February 13, Beijing time, the snooker players championship is about to enter the championship and runner-up competition, the final between Neil Robertson and Barry Hawkins, which means that the new world ranking will no longer change a lot, unless Hawkins wins the championship affects the ranking of his top 3 players, otherwise the current provisional ranking is the latest world ranking, mainland player Zhao Xintong may rise to the world's 7th place to set a new high, Ding Junhui continues to fall to 31st, Yan Bingtao remains in 13th place.
Top 16 rankings: Selby, O'Sullivan, Trump, Neil Robertson, Karen Wilson, Higgins (or Hawkins), Zhao Xintong (or Higgins), Mark Williams (or Zhao Xintong), Hawkins (or Williams), Murphy, Allen, Maguire, Yan Bingtao, Bingham, McGill, Bretchell
TOP16, compared to the previous world rankings basically did not change much, O'Sullivan failed to seize the opportunity of this players' tournament to return to the world first, Trump's continuous sluggish performance failed to launch another impact on the world first, the world's top five are still Selby, O'Sullivan, Trump, Robertson and Wilson, Higgins, Zhao Xintong, Williams and Hawkins ranked 6-9, of which Zhao Xintong's 7th set a record for the highest ranking of his career. But if Hawkins beat Robertson in the final, the 6th-9th place order would be Hawkins, Higgins, Zhao Xintong and Williams, and Zhao Xintong would maintain the world's 8th position. The 10th-16th place in the world has not changed.
In terms of TOP32, Jimmy Robertson, who reached the semi-final of this players' championship, jumped 11 places to 27th; Ding Junhui dropped another place to 31st; Mark King ranked 32nd, Serte, Gary Wilson and Ronin ranked 28-30 respectively; Lisovsky ranked 17th, with a difference of less than 10,000 pounds from Brechel in 16th place; Walton, Gilbert and Zhou Yuelong ranked 18-20; Wafi, Gould, Ryan Day, Brown, Carter and Fude are in 21-26th place, and Xiao Guodong and Liang Wenbo fell out of the TOP32 to rank 33rd and 35th respectively.
Among other Chinese players, Li Xing ranked 44th; Lu Haotian ranked 56th; Pang Junxu rose to 63rd and successfully entered the relegation zone in the second season of his career; Tian Pengfei was at risk of relegation at 67th; Cao Yupeng, Gao Yang, Zhao Jianbo and Fan Zhengyi ranked 71st, 73rd, 79th and 80th, of which Gao Yang and Fan Zhengyi were temporarily in the top 4 of the relegation zone, with relegation hopes, Zhao Jianbo's relegation road was not optimistic; Wu Yize was 83rd, Chang Bingyu and Xu Si were tied for 93rd place; Zhang Jiankang, Zhang Anda, Yuan Sijun, Lei Peifan, Chen Zifan, Fu Jiajun and Wu Anyi, all ranked 100 meters away.
It is worth noting that world champion Dort plummeted 20 places to 47th, world runner-up Stevens fell another 6 places to 65th in the relegation zone; Hendry continued to be Buddhist, ranking 101st; Wu Anyi and another female player Evans have not yet won the first victory.