On March 28, the penultimate ranking match of this season's World Snooker Tour, the Tour Championship will officially start, and the top eight players in the single season will start a fight, and Zhao Xintong of the Chinese Legion will play as the top seed, and will play Higgins in the first round. At the same time, the outside world is more concerned that after the end of the Tour Championship, the world ranking will undergo a relatively big change, of which the world number one will change hands again, O'Sullivan surpassed Selby, returned to the top position after many years, and set the world number one record of the second oldest age at the age of 46.
Why is it that before the Tour Championship starts, it is certain that O'Sullivan can return to the world number one position? Mainly combined with the world snooker's latest points ranking system, the total prize money of the ranking tournament for two seasons as a reference for the ranking, although in the latest world ranking after the Gibraltar Open, Selby still maintains the first position, but his advantage over O'Sullivan is less than 30,000 pounds, plus the Tour Championship, Selby did not qualify, but also deducted the final four results of 40,000 pounds two years ago, and O'Sullivan successfully participated, the guaranteed income was 20,000 pounds. Coming and going, the difference and ranking of the two have been directly adjusted, and O'Sullivan is expected to continue to achieve good results, so the lead after the reversal is expected to continue to improve.
Although O'Sullivan has not won too many ranking titles in these two seasons, he has performed well in many competitions, with runners-up and final four becoming commonplace, and the prize money is also rising, and he can continue to stay in the top three. After winning the World Championships last year, Selby surpassed Trump to become the world number one again, and this season was plagued by depression and continued to perform in a slump, resulting in his failure to continue to extend his lead, and even failed to rank in the top eight or even the top 16 in the single season rankings, missing out on the two major welfare ranking tournaments of the Players Championship and the Tour Championship. Finally, at the end of the settlement point before the World Championships, Selby completely lost the world number one position he had maintained for nearly a season.
After this week's Tour Championship, Selby will deduct £40,000 from the tournament's Top-Four results two years ago, with 984,500 prize points. And O'Sullivan will guarantee the bottom of the first round of 20,000 pounds before the Tour Championship starts, plus he has no deduction points, the total number of points reached 1.016 million, so he is locked in the world number one position in advance. However, after the World Championships, O'Sullivan will deduct the £500,000 he won two years ago, and if he wants to retain the world number one position at the end of the year, he must achieve the miracle of winning the title for the seventh time, otherwise he will most likely lose the top position.
In the battle for the third place, although it is Trump for the time being, he will have at least 859,500, and the fourth place behind him is the defending champion robertson of the tour championship, he is at least 792,000, that is to say, even if Trump wins the championship and wins the championship of 150,000 pounds, O'Sullivan's round trip, Trump can not complete the surpass, but Robertson can complete the third place of Trump, depending on the final results of the two.
In addition, after the end of the Tour Championship, the champion Maguire two years ago, will be deducted 150,000 points, which will cause his world ranking to fall sharply like Ding Junhui, falling out of the top 16, and it is currently known that it will fall 25 places to 41st. This will benefit Yan Bingtao, who was originally ranked 17th, and return to the top 16. In addition, the participants of the Tour Championship are ranked above him, so before the World Championships, he has no ranking worries and can play in the regular tournament as the 16th seed of the World Championships.