In the early morning of February 14, the 2022 World Snooker Players Championship ended the final battle, robertson easily defeated his old rival Hawkins 10-5 to win his third major title of the season and the 22nd ranking title of his career, tying Trump and tied for sixth place in history. With the end of the Players Tournament and the latest edition of the World Rankings updated simultaneously, Selby remains number one, with no change in the top six. As Murphy deducted the Welsh Open championship points two years ago, Zhao Xintong surpassed Murphy and even seventh place to continue to set a new career high, while Yan Bingtao continued to rank 13th, becoming the only two Chinese players in the top 16.
The latest edition of the World Rankings is settled after the Players Tournament, and although only 16 players compete, the same period needs to deduct the Points from the Welsh Open two years ago, so there is still a big change. With O'Sullivan losing to Trump in the first round of the Players' Championship, he missed out on a chance to overtake Selby and return to world number one. Selby continued to secure a top spot with a total prize pool of 1.0365 million, while O'Sullivan finished second with 954,000 and Trump ranked third with 916,500. Although Robertson won the Players' Championship and earned £125,000 in prize money, he still has a big gap with the third division, continuing to rank fourth with 754,000, Karen Wilson fifth with 572,500 and Higgins sixth with 403,500.
Two years ago, Murphy won the Welsh Open championship and received a prize of 70,000 pounds, and in the latest cycle, his points were deducted, so Zhao Xintong behind him surpassed him and rose to seventh place, with a total amount of 377,500 pounds, continuing to set a new career high. Williams was eighth with 353,500; Hawkins, runner-up in the Players' Championship, was ninth with 334,000, while Murphy was 10th with 321,000. Allen was 11th with 301,000, Maguire was 12th with 278,000, Yan Bingtao was 13th with 273,500, Bingham was 14th with 271,000, McGill was 15th with 264,000 and Brechel was 16th with 247,500. Lisovsky, on the other hand, is 17th with 238,000 and has a good chance of overtaking the few in front of him this season and returning to the top 16.
In the Chinese legion, in addition to Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who ranked in the top 16, among the other players, Zhou Yuelong ranked 20th with 156,500, Lu Ning ranked 30th with 110,000, while Ding Junhui continued to decline by one place compared with the previous period, ranking 31st with 109,500, second only to Lu Ning. Xiao Guodong ranked 34th with 101,500, Liang Wenbo ranked 35th with 101,000, Li Xing ranked 45th with 84,500, Lu Haotian ranked 56th with 71,500, and Pang Junxu ranked 63rd with 64,000.
Tian Pengfei ranked 67th with 57,500, in the relegation zone; Cao Yupeng ranked 71st with 37,500, Gao Yang ranked 73rd with 37,000, Zhao Jianbo ranked 79th with 32,500, Fan Zhengyi ranked 80th with 29,500, Wu Yize ranked 83rd with 24,000, Xu Si ranked 93rd with 15,000, Chang Bingyu also ranked 94th with 15,000, Zhang Jiankang ranked 102nd with 11,000, Zhang Anda ranked 104th with 8,500, Yuan Sijun ranked 106th with 8,500, Lei Peifan ranked 107th with 7,500, and Chen Zifan ranked 116th with 3,000 Fu Jiajun and Wu Anyi of Hong Kong still have no points and are at the bottom of the ranking.