The 2022 Snooker Tour Championship officially kicked off on March 28, and was played at 8:00 p.m. Beijing time and 2:30 a.m. Beijing time the next day, and only the top 8 players of the season can participate. There is a player from the mainland participating, zhao Xintong from the CBSA World Snooker Academy. The youngster has won both the British Championship and the German Masters this season and entered the Tour Championship as the top seeded player.
Four first-round matches (10 wins in 19 innings) were arranged against each other
March 28: Zhao Xintong (1) vs John Higgins (8)
March 29 : Neil Robertson (2) vs Mark Allen (7)
March 30 : Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) vs Mark Williams (6)
March 31 : Judd Trump (4) vs Luka Bressell (5)
In this snooker Tour Championship, because O'Sullivan's rival Selby will be deducted the 40,000 pounds in the same period, and this time O'Sullivan will be guaranteed to get 20,000 pounds, so this time, no matter what the tour championship, O'Sullivan's record, his points will surpass Selby. O'Sullivan will regain his world number one at the age of 46 and 119 days.
O'Sullivan first topped the world rankings in 2002, when he was just 26 years old. He then reached the summit four times, from May 2002 to May 2003, from May 2004 to May 2006, from May 2008 to May 2010, and from March to August 2019, with a cumulative reign of five years and 129 days. O'Sullivan will be the oldest world number one in nearly 40 years and the second oldest world number one in history, after Ray Reilton (50 years and 206 days old!