After a 10-day hiatus, the 2022 Snooker Gibraltar Open will kick off this afternoon with 128 players competing for £50,000 in prize money for the championship through a three-day intensive fixture. Although the number of prize money for the championship is small, it has been repeatedly mentioned that the finalization of eight tickets for the Gibraltar Open Direct-related Tour Championship and the final attribution of the £150,000 Grand Prize of the European Series, while the results of the Gibraltar Open will also have a decisive impact on tickets to this year's Direct Christburt World Championship.
Here's a quick twist:
1. Tickets to the Tour Tournament
This single season ranking bonus list, the top 6 yellow mark players have secured tickets to the Tour Championship; Allen has the theoretical possibility of being squeezed out of the tickets, Higgins is slightly dangerous, with 7 chasers behind him. This list will be updated in the battle report after the end of the daily match, and the exiting competitors will be marked in gray.
2. 150,000 grand prizes in the European Series
Similarly updated daily, the front runner yellow mark, the exit competitor gray mark. Before the game, Trump said, "I like Gibraltar's intensive schedule." Does this mean three consecutive?
3. Crucible tickets
After deducting the £150,000 ranking prize money of the 2020 Tour Championship, Maguire's provisional ranking before this year's World Championships fell vertically to 39th, so Yan Bingtao's provisional ranking returned to the 16th position. But this temporary 16th position is not stable.
Provisional ranking before the World Championships:
16 Yan Bingtao £233,000
17 Wharton £207,000
18 Wafi £182,000
19 Gilbert £175,000
The next three pursuers are all contenders for tickets to the Tour Championship, and if one of them gets a Ticket to the Tour Through the Gibraltar Open, then Yan Bingtao's Crucible ticket, if not directly lost, is extremely dangerous.
In addition, nearly 20 professional players have withdrawn from the Gibraltar Open before the game; including four TOP16 players, Kim left-handed Williams, Murphy, Maguire and McGill. However, these four have no impact on the competition for tickets and red envelopes in front, and the strongmen who grab money and grab tickets are not left behind.
Off-site news, the king of the World Championships, Hendry, withdrew from this year's World Championship qualifiers. I feel that after the comeback, Lao Heng is not interesting to play, and may be retired again. Fu Jiajun had already boarded a plane to Britain.