The 2021-2022 Snooker World Championships came to an end, and in the eye-catching final, "Rocket" O'Sullivan withstood Trump's crazy counterattack in the fourth stage of the game, and finally he won the championship with an 18:13 victory over his opponent, which was also the seventh time in O'Sullivan's career to win the World Championship, equaling the "Emperor of Billiards" Hendry, and tied for the most world championship winners, which was also the 39th ranking champion of O'Sullivan's career, continuing to set a new record for ranking championships. With the End of the World Championships, all the events of the 2021-2022 snooker season are over, and the Chinese team has performed quite well this season, with Zhao Xintong and Fan Zheng winning a total of three ranking championships, creating the best results in recent years.
After the end of the World Championships, the latest snooker world ranking is also freshly released, because there will be no snooker competition for the next two months or so, so the new world ranking will not change for a long time, the latest world ranking is actually the year-end ranking. After winning the World Championship, O'Sullivan took a huge prize money of 500,000 pounds, and his world ranking has returned to the world first from the fourth place before the start of the World Championships, and O'Sullivan's cumulative prize points are currently 1.036 million pounds. Trump, who unfortunately lost in the World Championship final, received a runner-up prize of £200,000 and is currently rising to second place with £1,009,500, Trump had a chance to finish first at the end of the year, but he lost to O'Sullivan in the World Championship final, and Trump, who lost £300,000, ended up in second place with less than £30,000, temporarily slowing down the time to return to the world first.
The 'Leicester Clown' Selby, who failed to defend his title at the World Championships, finished third with £915,000 and was finally overtaken by O'Sullivan and Trump at the end of the season due to poor form this season. Although Neil Robertson was knocked out in the second round of the World Championships, he is currently fourth with £902,000 for his outstanding performances this season. The "wizard" Higgins, who reached the final four of the World Championships, continued to rise steadily in the world rankings, he ranked fifth with 537,000 pounds, and although China's current snooker "brother" Zhao Xintong stopped in the second round of the World Championships, he is currently sixth with 434,500 pounds, which is also the highest ranking in Zhao Xintong's career.
Mark Williams, who reached the semi-finals of the World Championships, is seventh with £423,500, karen Wilson, who has stopped the second round of the World Championships, has fallen sharply, and he is currently eighth with £419,000, World Champion Sean Murphy, who is out of the first round of the World Championships, is ninth with £316,000, and Lisowski, one of the "91 Three Masters", is tenth with £315,500. Hawkins, Brechel, Bingham, Mark Allen, Yan Bingtao and McGill are ranked 11th to 16th respectively.
In terms of Chinese players, in addition to Zhao Xintong's ranking to a record high, Yan Bingtao, who reached the quarterfinals of the World Championships, rose from the original 16th to 15th, and these two are currently the only two Chinese players in the world's top 16. Zhou Yuelong, who stopped the World Championship qualification, ranked 23rd, and Ding Junhui, who was pinned high hopes on by everyone, slipped again in the world rankings, and he is currently only ranked 32nd in the first round of the World Championships, returning to the top 16 in the world, perhaps such a ranking will be the norm for Ding Junhui in the future. Lu Ning, who played poorly in the World Championship qualifiers, ranked 34th, Fan Zhengyi, who won the European Masters championship this season, ranked 36th, Xiao Guodong and Liang Wenbo, who were contemporaries of Ding Junhui, ranked 38th and 40th respectively, Lu Haotian, who stopped the first round of the World Championships, ranked 45th, and veteran Li Xing ranked 48th. Chinese players between the 50th and 100th places also include Pang Junxu, Tian Pengfei, Cao Yupeng, Gao Yang, Yuan Sijun, Wu Yize, Zhao Jianbo, Zhang Anda, Zhang Jiankang, Xu Si and Lei Peifan.