The 2021-2022 Snooker Tour Championship came to an end, the final between defending champion Neil Robertson and "The Witcher" Higgins had a dramatic result, four-time World Championship winner Higgins lost six consecutive sets in a 9:4 lead, and finally was reversed by defending champion Neil Robertson at 9:10, missing the first ranking championship of the season, while successfully defending Neil Robertson won the third ranking championship of the season, ranking champion chased Trump, The two are tied to become the "post-80s" players who have won the most ranking championships. After the end of the Players Tour, the International Taiwan Federation announced the latest edition of the world rankings, the top 16 players in this edition of the world ranking will become the world championship seed players starting in the middle of this month, it is worth mentioning that the Chinese legion has a total of Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao two into the top 16, they will directly advance to the world championship 32, and the opponent of the first round of competition will be qualifiers.
After the end of the Tour Championship, the International Taiwan Federation announced a new edition of the player world rankings, stopped the Tour Final Four "Rocket" O'Sullivan is still ranked first in the world, from the last period to become the world number one, O'Sullivan's world number one throne has become more and more stable, with the tour championship won 40,000 pounds in prize money, O'Sullivan opened the gap with the second place Selby, the two are currently 51,500 pounds apart, with the tour championship 150,000 championship jackpot, Neil Robertson rose from the fourth place in the previous period to the third place Trump, who stopped in the first round of the Tour Championship, slipped one place in the rankings to fourth.
Karen Wilson is fifth with £589,000, Tour Runner-up Higgins is sixth with 467,000, China's Zhao Xintong is seventh with 404,500, Mark Williams is eighth, "Mr. Stability" Hawkins is ninth, and Sean Murphy is tenth. The players ranked eleventh to sixteenth are: Brechel, Anthony McGill, world champions Bingham, Lissovsky, Mark Allen and China's Yan Bingtao, the above 16 players will be the seeded players of this season's World Championships. China's Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao are the seventh and 16th seeds of this season's World Championships.
With the latest world rankings freshly released, the results of the world championship seed draw have also been released, and defending champion Selby and world number one "Rocket" O'Sullivan will defend the upper and lower half of the district respectively, and the two will strive to meet in the division final. Defending champion Selby has been in poor shape this season, he has been eliminated in the first and second rounds of the ranking tournament many times, and it is not clear how Selby, who has recently withdrawn from multiple ranking matches, is currently in a bad state, but in any case, it is very difficult for Selby to successfully defend the world championship. Selby is paired with China's Yan Bingtao, which means that if both of them successfully pass the first round, they will compete for a place in the quarterfinals in the second round, and Selby's unstable performance this season has given Yan Bingtao a "upset" possibility. If Yan Bingtao can break through two levels in a row to advance to the quarterfinals, Yan Bingtao will most likely compete with Mark Williams or Hawkins for the top four, but objectively speaking, Yan Bingtao's state this season is also unstable, and it is still very difficult to win consecutively to advance.
Zone 1/4: Selby, Yan Bingtao, Williams, Hawkins
Zone 2/4: Robertson, McGill, Wilson, Bingham
Zone 3/4: Trump, Lisowski, Higgins, Brechel
Zone 4/4: O'Sullivan, Mark Allen, Zhao Xintong, Murphy
Another Chinese seeded player, Zhao Xintong, was divided into 4/4 zone, and the seeded players in the same district were world number one O'Sullivan, "small steel cannon" Mark Allen and world champion Sean Murphy, and it was very difficult to break through. The seeded player opposite Zhao Xintong is World Champion and currently ranked Tenth In the world, Sean Murphy, which means that if both can win the first round, they will meet in the second round to compete for the quarterfinals. Sean Murphy was the runner-up winner of the last World Championships, and this season Sean Murphy is also in poor shape, staging a "round trip" in multiple races, which is an opportunity for Zhao Xintong. Zhao Xintong has won two ranking championships this season, compared to Shaun Murphy, Zhao Xintong's state is obviously more outstanding, but the ups and downs are the characteristics of Zhao Xintong, on the stage of the World Championships, no player is weak, Zhao Xintong must overcome some of his own significant weaknesses if he wants to get good results, only in this way can he have the opportunity to go further.
In addition to the seeded players Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, the other 24 members of the Chinese Legion must start from the qualifiers, some players must play four rounds to have a chance to get a place in the main tournament, and the much-anticipated Ding Junhui also has to start from the qualifiers, Ding Junhui ranks 29th in the latest world rankings, according to the schedule, he needs to play two rounds of qualifications, and only by winning consecutive wins can he ensure a world championship main tournament place. The World Championship Qualification Tournament will start on the afternoon of April 5, Beijing time, looking forward to the outstanding performance of the Chinese team, hoping that more players can enter the main world championship, it is worth mentioning that Chinese players have never won the world championship, the best result is Ding Junhui won the runner-up six years ago.