The 2022 Snooker World Championships have entered the quarter-final stage, and with defending champion Selby and number one favourite Neil Robertson missing out on the top 8, the situation of the year-end No.1 battle has changed, which can be said to be the ultimate highlight of this World Championship.
After Selby and Neil Robertson stopped in the Round of 16, there were three players left in the year-end No.1 competition: Trump, O'Sullivan and Higgins.
At present, in the provisional ranking list of the official website of the World Taiwan Federation, Selby is still ranked first, Neil Robertson is second, but they are both out of the World Championships, there is no possibility of continuing to increase points, and the third place Trump is very small from the top two, and reaching the final can surpass the first place Selby.
In addition to Trump, O'Sullivan also had a good chance of winning the final year-end No. 1. O'Sullivan's final world number one condition was that Trump failed to reach the final, and O'Sullivan won the title himself.
Higgins also had a theoretical possibility of finishing no.1 year-end, Higgins needed to win the title himself, and Trump failed to reach the final. It can be seen that Trump can ensure that he will win the year-end world number one for the third consecutive year as long as he reaches the final, and if he can, then Trump will become the fifth player in snooker history to achieve this achievement.
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