Beijing time on April 8 news, on the official website of the World Federation of Taiwan, the professional snooker world ranking has changed again, the top 10 are completely disrupted, after deducting the world championship prize money 2 years ago, rocket O'Sullivan lost the NO.1 throne, in addition, Zhao Xintong created a new career history, the first time to the world's 6th!
O'Sullivan slipped from No. 1 to No. 4, Selby rose from No. 2 to No. 1, Neil Robertson rose from No. 3 to No. 2, Trump rose from No. 4 to No. 3, Higgins rose from No. 6 to No. 5, Zhao Xintong also rose one place from No. 7 to No. 6, Karen Wilson dropped two places from No. 5 to No. 7, Murphy and Barry Hawkins swapped positions, only Eighth-place Mark Williams remained unchanged, and the top 10 ranking was indeed a big change.
At present, this season's professional snooker has only the last finale left - the World Championship! The world's top 10 players mentioned above are all directly shortlisted for the round of 32 and are listed as seeded players in the Snooker World Championships, so the results of the ongoing qualifying matches will not have any impact on their rankings, and the reason why the mutual ranking of the top 10 will change so much is because the prize money of the 2019 Snooker World Championships will be deducted. O'Sullivan was deducted £500,000 and runner-up Karen Wilson was also deducted £200,000.
As a result, the original world No. 2 Selby surpassed O'Sullivan as the latest world number one. Also because of Karen Wilson's decline, Zhao Xintong rose one place to the highest ranking in career history and ranked 6th!
In terms of the rest of the Chinese players, Yan Bingtao was 15th, Zhou Yuelong was 23rd, Lu Ning was 31st, Fan Zhengyi was 32nd, Ding Junhui was 34th, Xiao Guodong was 35th, Liang Wenbo, who was suspended, slipped from 32nd to 38th, Li Xing was 42nd, and Lu Haotian rose to 47th. Other Chinese players are outside the top 50.