In the early morning of April 14, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker World Championship qualification round was all over, and the last 8 seats that advanced to the main tournament were officially born, including Waffi, Gilbert and other seeded players who successfully advanced, while China's two young players Yuan Sijun and Lei Peifan regrettably lost out. At this point, the 16 players who successfully broke through the World Championship qualifiers were born, led by Ding Junhui and Stevens, two former world runners-up. This year, Crucible will still welcome three newcomers, continuing the record of every year since the 1977 World Championships were settled at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Snooker Holy Land.
This year's World Championship qualifiers still featured 128 players, with only 16 seats qualifying for the main tournament, and 16 people stood out in the 10-day tournament. For the Chinese legion that Chinese fans are most concerned about, it can only be said that the process and result are quite tragic, a total of 25 people played, and finally only Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian broke through successfully, and as many as 23 people were out! Ding Junhui continued his record of 16 consecutive years of participation in the World Championships since 2007, while Lu Haotian made his third appearance in Crucible.
Among the other 14 people, there is the familiar two-time World Championship runner-up winner, Stevens, known as the "Welsh Dragon", who defeated Carter, who was also a two-time World Championship runner-up in the decisive round 10-8. In the qualifiers, the second seed Wafi and the third seed Gilbert both successfully won the promotion, of which Wafi became the only player in the decider round to win the tiebreaker form, he defeated China's 18-year-old Lei Peifan 10-9; Gilbert won 10-3 to win the veteran Hamilton.
Former Welsh pro Michael White (Little White) has created another miracle, this year he played as an amateur, winning four consecutive rounds of qualifying to advance to the main tournament, becoming the second amateur to qualify for the main tournament after Cahill in 2019. In addition, Wilson's Patch is another player who played four rounds of qualifying and advanced to the main tournament. This year's Crucible will once again welcome three newcomers, they are Iran's govpher, Wales young Man Paci and England's Hugh Gill.
Other players who have advanced to the main tournament include Scotland's Maguire, Thailand's two players Tachaia and Sankam, and Scotland's Donaldson, known as Ding Junhui's nemesis, who is the only player in the decider round to advance with a 10-1 victory, defeating Taylor. Wales also had two finalists, Jamie Jones and Clark, who eliminated the previous world championship winner 10-8 and Scott's Dort, who scored a perfect score of 147 in this qualifying round. In addition, there are 2 players from England, namely Highfield and Wakelin.
At 6 p.m. Beijing time on April 14, the first round of the world championship final 32 draw ceremony will be held, when the 16 qualifiers will officially face off with the top 16 seeds in the world ranking. On April 16, the main round of the 2022 World Snooker Championship will officially kick off at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, with 10 wins in the first round of 19 innings, 13 wins in 25 innings in the second round and 1/4 finals, 17 wins in 33 sets in the semi-finals, 18 wins in 35 innings in the final, and the winner will be decided on the evening of May 2 local time.