In the World Snooker Tour, many people are questioning the strength of China's first brother Ding Junhui, and even many fans think that Ding Junhui is no longer a first-tier player.
However, is this really the case? The answer, of course, is no. In the 2023/24 season, Ding Junhui once again proved with a very good performance who is the real Asian first brother.
China's first brother has become the only non-British player in the top 10 in a single-season ranking tournament with 30 wins in 43 games. And this also means that Ding Junhui is still the best player in Asia, and he is still well-deserved to be crowned the first person in Asia.
Ding Junhui is the player with the highest winning percentage in Asian ranking tournaments
After a season's test, Ding Junhui has once again become the best Asian player on the World Snooker Tour. Although Ding Junhui's single-season achievements are not as good as Zhang Anda's, he still relies on his excellent stability and super psychological quality to make him the Asian player with the highest winning rate in ranking matches.
In the 2023/24 season, Ding Junhui participated in a total of 43 ranking matches and won 30 of them. Such a performance also makes Ding Junhui the player with the seventh ranking win rate, which also means that his ranking win rate is second only to Trump, O'Sullivan, Kyren Wilson, Mark Williams, Allen and Higgins.
He is also the only non-English player to have a top-10 ranking win percentage. For the World Snooker Tour, such a performance is definitely very impressive.
Ding Junhui is the highest-ranked player in Asia
Although there is a big gap between Ding Junhui's current competitive state and his peak, objectively speaking, this is still much better than his state two seasons ago.
You must know that Ding Junhui reached the finals of the British Championship and the World Open in the 2023/24 season, although they ended in failure, but this does not affect him as the most stable player in Asian athletic form.
You must know that Ding Junhui has only lost 13 ranking matches in the entire season. Even if you add the games lost in the invitational tournament, Ding Junhui only lost 17 games. Maybe a lot of people think that this is already a bad result.
But objectively speaking, except for Trump and O'Sullivan, the other four players in the top six in terms of winning percentage have lost much more than Ding Junhui. And Ding Junhui also ranked himself eighth in the world with this performance, which made him the highest-ranked Asian player in the world.
Ding Junhui is still a player in the first echelon of snooker
Perhaps in the eyes of many fans, Ding Junhui is no longer a player in the first echelon, but objectively speaking, Ding Junhui's current comprehensive performance and ranking are fully worthy of the lineup of the first echelon. You must know that whether it is the winning rate of the ranking match or the comprehensive winning rate, Ding Junhui is the only non-British player in the top ten.
In addition, Ding Junhui also played a single-stroke 147 performance in the 2023/24 season, and twice reached the finals of the ranking tournament, and he scored 45 strokes to break 100. So, no matter what category you look at, he should belong to the first echelon.
Objectively speaking, only Trump, Allen and Murphy can perform better than Ding Junhui this season. Even on the whole, Ding Junhui's performance can enter the top ten in the world, not to mention that he is still the world's eighth-ranked snooker player.
For many fans, Ding Junhui's strength may no longer be able to enter the first echelon. However, in the eyes of professional snooker commentators and celebrities, no matter what position Ding Junhui ranks, he should belong to the first echelon of the lineup. Because anyone who really understands the game knows that the strength of a player is not just based on the championship.