On April 29, 2022, the semi-finals of the Snooker World Championship entered a white-hot stage, and both matches will enter the final tie-off stage, at the same time, the World Snooker Tour (WST) officially issued an important decision to officially open the voting for the 2021/22 "Best Player for Fan Vote", and the players shortlisted this year are: Neil Robertson, Zhao Xintong, Judd Trump, Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins. Among them, Chinese player Zhao Xintong was shortlisted for the award for the first time.
According to the convention, after the end of each year's World Championships, WST will announce the winners of the annual major awards, specific award categories include: Player of the Year, Best Player of the Year, Best Player of the Year, Media Selection of Best Player, Best Performance of the Year, Best Newcomer of the Year, Magical Moment of the Year, Hall of Fame. Last season's "Player of the Year" and "Fan Vote Player of the Year" were judd Trump, and Trump has won the "Player of the Year" award for three consecutive years, in addition to O'Sullivan, Higgins, Selby and Bingham.
In terms of Chinese players, Ding Junhui has been successfully inducted into the "Hall of Fame", Xu Si, Yan Bingtao and Pang Junxu have won the "Best Newcomer of the Year" award, this time Chinese player Zhao Xintong, with his outstanding performance in the British Championship and the German Masters Champion, was shortlisted for the "Best Player for Fan Vote" for the first time, competing with Robertson, Trump, O'Sullivan and Higgins for the award. It is reported that Robertson has a single season four crown performances, including the Masters, Trump has a crown in the championship and two titles in the Turkish Masters, O'Sullivan won the Grand Prix and returned to the world number one, and Higgins won the Champions League, the runner-up of the five rankings and the top of the European series.
It is also worth noting that China's youngster Wu Yize has reached the top 32 of the British Championship in the new professional tournament this season, and the world ranking occupies the top position of the new professional players, so Wu Yize is quite promising to compete for this year's "Best Newcomer of the Year" award.