The final of the World Championships ended with the Rockets winning 18-13. The end of the World Championships also announces the end of the entire season. A new year-end ranking followed. In the past season, Chinese players have repeatedly reached new highs, which can be seen from the final year-end rankings.
The World Championships is one of the three major snooker competitions and the highest prize money in the snooker industry, with the champion exclusively enjoying a prize money of 500,000 pounds, the runner-up 200,000 pounds, the final four 100,000 pounds, and the final 16 also has 30,000 pounds, and the prize money can be said to be very generous compared to other individual events. Rocket O'Sullivan, the first snooker and newly crowned seven-time champion, won the 500,000 pounds at the World Championships and later ranked first in the world, with a total prize of 1.036 million pounds.
In second place was Little, with a total prize of £1,009,500, narrowly outnumbering the Rockets. In third place was Selby, with a prize of £914,500. China's Zhao Xintong rose to 6th in the world with 434,500 pounds, and Yan Bingtao ranked 15th with 253,000 pounds. In addition, Zhou Yuelong is 23rd, and China's brother Ding Junhui unfortunately fell to 32nd, only 4 places higher than the young fan Zhengyi.
If the year-end ranking reflects the overall performance of the past few years, then the single-season ranking mainly reflects the performance of the players in the past year. In the past season, Zhao Xintong and Fan Zhengyi among Chinese players have set a new high.
As seven-time champions, the Rockets came first with a single season of £772,500, becoming the world's no. 1 double. Robertson and Little Te are ranked two or three. Zhao Xintong, who had previously occupied the first place for a long time, finally ranked 4th in a single season with a prize of 361,500 pounds for 361,500 pounds, thanks to his victory at the British Championships and the German Masters, as well as his outstanding performance in the top 16 for the first time in the World Championships.
Second only to Zhao Xintong among The Chinese players is Yan Bingtao. This past season, although Yan Bingtao did not win a ranking championship, he entered the top 10 with the runner-up of the German Masters, the quarterfinals of the World Championships, and the steady performance of other individual events, ranking in the top 10, ranking 9th with 175,500 pounds.
Fan Zhengyi, who won the ranking championship for the first time in his career, ranked 20th. Three months ago, in the final of the European Masters, Fan Zhengyi won the championship with a 10-9 victory over rocket O'Sullivan and became famous. And Ding Junhui is unfortunately ranked 31st, and he will have to work hard in the future.