Williams won the championship, the world ranking surpassed China's brother! Ding Junhui continued to be absent for fear of falling out of the top ten. The 2021 Snooker British Open has come to an end, "Golden Left Hand" Williams defeated Gary Wilson 6-4 in the final to win the 24th ranking championship of his career, while Williams also surpassed China's brother Ding Junhui in the world ranking with a prize of 100,000 pounds to rise to eighth place.
Because this British Open, in the first three rounds of the use of short-term system, so there are many cold, such as Selby in the second round was eliminated, Trump was also eliminated in the third round. In the quarter-finals, only one seeded player remained, Williams. In the final, Williams' opponent was Gary Wilson, the two had met three times before, Williams maintained a full victory record, this game, Williams scored a single shot of 111 points, the two in the first four sets of the battle became 2-2 draw, and then Gary Wilson also played a single shot to break the hundred, the total score of 3-2 rebound, the key moment, Williams withstood the pressure to win two consecutive sets, once again to take the lead, and finally Williams won the championship 6-4, and received a championship prize of 100,000 pounds.
After the British Open, the World Taiwan Federation also released the latest edition of the world rankings, Selby rose to first place with £1,213,000 overtaken Trump, Trump ranked second with £1,206,000, O'Sullivan ranked third with £864,000, Robertson fourth with £772,000, Karen Wilson fifth with £609,500, Murphy sixth with £574,500, Higgins seventh with £411,500, Mark Thompson at £41,500, Mark Thompson. Williams moved up to eighth with £400,500 and Maguire rose to ninth with £345,500. China's brother Ding Junhui has missed the Champions League and the British Open consecutively, dropping two places in the ranking to rank tenth with 335250 pounds, and from the current situation, if Ding Junhui continues to miss the game, he may fall out of the world's top ten at any time.
In addition, Yan Bingtao ranked 15th with 261,500 pounds, and Zhou Yuelong is currently ranked 17th, more than 30,000 pounds away from the world's top 16. Judging from the latest news, Ding Junhui has confirmed his absence from the next Northern Ireland Open, because Ding Junhui is only less than 40,000 pounds more than Mark Allen, who ranks 11th, so Ding Junhui may be squeezed out of the world's top ten at any time, and I don't know how Ding Junhui will be arranged in the later stage.