On April 4, 2022, the Snooker World Championship is about to start, after the end of the tour championship, the official announcement of the seeded players' signing table, China's Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao are divided into upper and lower half of the zone, the division can only be in the final, in addition to 24 people led by Ding Junhui to participate in the qualification round, Liang Wenbo was banned, determined not to participate, Fu Jiajun will return to the field, he needs to start from the first round of the qualification round.
The World Championships is the first major competition in snooker, the championship prize money is as much as 500,000 pounds, its importance is self-evident, the top sixteen players in the world ranking are seeded players, directly advanced to the top 32, other players need to pass the qualification round, to fight for the place to go to Crucible, according to the world ranking, each person can participate in up to four qualifiers, at least two, Ding Junhui will directly participate in the third round.
The first three rounds of the qualifiers 11 innings 6 wins, the last round of 19 rounds 10 wins, when the 16 qualifiers, will challenge the world's top 16 seeded players, through the lottery to decide the first round of matches, tonight the qualifiers kicked off, the World Federation of Taiwan has long announced the signing table, only the division of seeded players, need to wait for the end of the tour tournament, through the world ranking to decide the specific match situation.
Defending champion Mark. Selby is in Zone 1/4, with the seeded player in place being Yan Bingtao and the other two being Mark. Williams and Hawkins, Robertson in the 2/4 zone, the opposite seeded player is McGill, and the other two are Karen. Wilson and Bingham.
Trump is in the 3/4 zone, the opposite seed is Lisovsky, the other two are Higgins and Brechel, O'Sullivan is in the 4/4 zone, and the opposite seed is Mark. Alan, and the other two are Zhao Xintong and Sean. Murphy, the seeded players in the first round against the qualifiers, according to the past practice, will qualify players to eliminate the seeded players, and this year is no exception.
It is worth mentioning that Selby and Murphy are the champions and runners-up of last year's World Championships, for Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong, it is not easy to achieve good results, what can be done is to go all out to impact the opponent, the seeded players still have time to prepare, but tonight the qualifiers start, some Chinese players usher in the test, the strength of the players in the first round is relatively close, and the victory or defeat depends on the personal state.
The best result of Chinese players in the World Championships is the runner-up, Ding Junhui lost to Selby in the final, the recent rise of young players such as Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, Fan Zhengyi, etc., is likely to bring unexpected surprises, of course, Ding Junhui's performance is also worth looking forward to, first of all, he wants to win two consecutive rounds of qualification matches, strive for the opportunity to challenge the seeded players, and finally wish them good results in advance.