Recently, the official announcement of the 2022 Snooker World Championship participants in the big list. In this big list, China's three top players Ding Junhui, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao will all participate. However, for the three representative players of China's snooker, the road to the world championship is different. Zhao Xintong, a youngster who has won two consecutive championships this season, has ensured that he can get straight to the main game. And Yan Bingtao, the world's strongest post-00 player, his main event seat is still in an undecided state. As for Ding Junhui, a brother of Chinese snooker, who only wants to win the World Championship, there is still a precondition for whether he can participate in the main competition at present.
For Zhao Xintong, he may not have thought that he could reach the main stage of the World Championships as a seeded player last season. After all, the only players who can become seeded players at the World Championships are the top players in today's snooker world. In this season, Zhao Xintong played very well, known as the "little rocket", he opened the situation with attack in the game, and won two championships, including the British Championship champion, one of the world's three major competitions. It is with such a highlight performance that Zhao Xintong officially entered the top 16 list representing the highest level of snooker. He also became a seeded player at the World Championships with the top 16 in the world rankings.
As for Yan Bingtao, the post-00s player has performed well in the past two seasons, winning the Masters championship, one of the three major competitions, and his world ranking is basically among the top 16 in the world. However, entering this season, Yan Bingtao's results are not very eye-catching, so his world ranking has now fallen out of the world's top 16 and ranked 17th. If he were to follow his current rankings, he would not be able to qualify for the World Championships as a seeded player. But before the start of the World Championships, there are still two races to be played, if Yan Bingtao plays well, then he will most likely return to the world's top 16, so that he can go straight to the main tournament as a seeded player.
But for Ding Junhui, a brother of Chinese snooker, no matter what, if he wants to participate in the final of this year's World Championships, he must play the qualifier first. According to the rules, there are four rounds of qualifying for this World Championship, which are played according to the world ranking. There are 128 participants in this qualifier, and 16 of them are selected to enter the main tournament, and then compete with the top 16 players in the world ranking to determine the final champion. I have to say that the competition in the qualifiers is very fierce. The first round will be contested by players ranked 81 to 112 in the world and players ranked 113 to 144 in the world. In the second round, the first round qualifiers played against the players ranked 49th to 80th. In the third round, the winners play against the 17th to 48th runners, and in the fourth round, the remaining 32 players play against each other, and the last 16 players are decided to enter the main round.
As for Ding Junhui, because of the sluggish performance in the past two seasons, he has always been straight to the main tournament, and this time he has to start from the qualification tournament. According to Ding Junhui's current world rankings, he will start from the third round of qualifiers. In other words, if he wants to participate in the main world championship, he must play two consecutive victories in the qualifiers in order to qualify for the main competition. Ding Junhui's career can be described as brilliant, as a chinese snooker brother, he has won the British Championship and the Masters Championship, and only lacks a World Championship champion. Therefore, Ding Junhui is very eager for the world championship. However, it is very difficult to win the World Championships. For Ding Junhui, this world championship is more difficult, after all, he first has to pass two rounds of qualification to qualify for the championship. However, 6 years ago, Ding Junhui also started from the qualification tournament and finally entered the final of the World Championships. Perhaps, this time, Ding Junhui can replicate the feat of 6 years ago. Come on, Ding Junhui.