O'Sullivan ranks #1 year-end! Zhao Xintong Yan Bingtao entered the top 16, and Ding Junhui continued to decline. The 2022 World Snooker Championships have come to an end, with "Rocket" O'Sullivan beating Trump 18-13 in the final to win the World Championship for the seventh time in his career. At the same time, with O'Sullivan winning the championship, all the competitions of the season are over, and the year-end world rankings are also released, and O'Sullivan is back in the world with a championship prize of 500,000 pounds.
Before the start of this World Championship, O'Sullivan's 2020 winnings were emptied, so his world ranking dropped to 4th, but after he beat Trump to win the championship, he will receive a prize of 500,000 pounds, so he is back in the first place, and this is his 7th time to reach the year-end world number one, equaling Davis and Selby, behind Hendry's 9th year-end world number one. Trump finished runner-up and will receive a £200,000 prize money to finish second. Although Selby lost to China's post-00s youngster Yan Bingtao in the second round, he still ranked third with £914,500. Neil Robertson is fourth with £902,000, and from the current prize table, only O'Sullivan, Trump, Selby, Neil Robertson have bonus points of more than £900,000, and the rest of the players are very different from these four players, and no one should be able to threaten the world rankings of these four players for some time to come.
The fifth to tenth places are Higgins, Zhao Xintong, Williams, Wilson, Murphy, Lisowski, of which Zhao Xintong ranks sixth in the world with 434,500 pounds, which is currently the highest ranked Chinese player in the world, he and Higgins have a gap of 100,000 pounds, and Williams is only 11,000 pounds less than Zhao Xintong, Wilson is only 15,000 pounds less than Zhao Xintong, which shows that Zhao Xintong needs to maintain his state next season to maintain his current world rankings. The eleventh to sixteenth places are Hawkins, Brechel, Bingham, Allen, Yan Bingtao, McGill, of which Yan Bingtao, who reached the quarterfinals of the World Championship for the first time, ranked 15th with 253,000 pounds, more than 50,000 pounds ahead of McGill in 16th place, and only two Chinese players, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, have entered the world's top 16. This article is original by Xiao Lizi, please do not copy or port.
The world's third-highest-ranked Chinese player is Zhou Yuelong, who is currently ranked 23rd in the world with £164,000. China's famous Ding Junhui in this season's performance is more average, at the beginning of the season suffered several round trips, the world ranking also fell sharply, but in the second half of the season, Ding Junhui's state has rebounded, the Turkish Masters reached the top 4, gibraltar Open to advance to the top 8, although it failed to get straight to the World Championship, but Ding Junhui still won the main tournament qualification with two consecutive wins, but unfortunately lost to Wilson in the first round, compared with before the World Championships, Ding Junhui's world ranking has declined, and currently ranks 32nd.