On April 14, 2022, the snooker World Championship Round of 32 was released, 16 seeded players and 16 qualifiers went to Crucible to participate in the main tournament to compete for the championship trophy, the World Federation of Taiwan officially announced, tonight at 18:00 to conduct the main draw, to determine the first round of matches, four Chinese players to participate, respectively, seeded players Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, as well as Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian, who broke through from the qualifiers.
China's snooker this time can be said to be high and low, many people were eliminated in the last two rounds, and finally only Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian entered the main game, Ding Junhui started from the third round, eliminated Tian Pengfei 6-4, and reversed David 10-7. Li Li, Lu Haotian started from the second round, eliminating Xu Si 6-4, defeating Lu Ning 6-3 and sweeping Dominica 10-4. Dale, have all been through a bitter battle.
At the same time, this year's Crucible also welcomed three newcomers, namely Hussein. Wafi, Ashley. Högel, Jackson. Page, except Hussein. Wafi, they are all post-90s players, only Hussein. Wafi won the ranking tournament, Ashley. Högel, Jackson. Page hasn't even made it to the final four of the rankings, and beating seeded players is unlikely, making it difficult to upset in the main game.
Judging from the lineup of 16 qualifiers, the strongest ones are Ding Junhui, Maguire and Gilbert, who are no different from the seeded players, but the ranking is lower, followed by Hussein. Wafi, Michael. White, Tachaia, Matthew. All four Stevens have won the ranking championship, with Matthew. Stevens is the highest achiever, having finished runners-up at the World Championships, but has fallen badly in recent years.
Finally Lu Haotian, Jamie. Clark, Jamie. Jones have reached the Round of 16 of the World Championships, Noppon. Thornham, Chris. Wakelin, Scott. Donaldson and Highfield have already made their debuts in Crucible, and the most competitive is Jackson. Page, Ashley. Hegel, for seeded players, draws to them are good signings, Jackson. Page is Mark. Williams' apprentice.
Some seeded players, although ranked higher, do not have much of an advantage in individual strength over qualifiers, such as Lisovsky, McGill, Luka. Brechel, all may be eliminated in the first round of the main tournament, every year the World Championships will have a cold goal, according to the past practice, qualifiers to win the seeded players will definitely have, are not willing to draw Ding Junhui and Maguire.
After tonight's draw ceremony, the World Taiwan Federation arranged for everyone to rest for a day, the main tournament will start on April 16, another year of the World Championships, once again to the stage of Crucible, this time the four Chinese players can achieve another good result, let us wait and see.