With the conclusion of the 2022 World Snooker Tour Turkey Masters, the latest single-season ranking list has been announced, and Zhao Xintong of the Chinese Legion is still at the top of the list, while Trump, who won the Turkish Masters, jumped from the previous 13th to 4th, locking in the qualification for the Tour Championship. Unfortunately, Yan Bingtao, a Chinese star who had previously been in the top eight, directly surpassed him and squeezed him to 10th place due to the poor performance of the last few races and the excellent performance of his main competitors.
Since Yan Bingtao did not register for the Gibraltar Open, the ranking tournament held at the end of the month, it means that Yan Bingtao did not qualify for the most important top ranking tournament tour championship before the World Championships. At the same time, Yan Bingtao also officially withdrew from the competition for the prize money of 150,000 pounds (about 1.25 million yuan) in the european series. What is more worrying is that Yan Bingtao may not be able to return to the top 16 seeds before the World Championship qualifiers start, which means that he still needs to play a qualifying round to qualify for the Crucible stage.
In previous years, the Gibraltar Open was a small ranking tournament, and many well-known players did not look up to such a competition, and the prize money for the champion was only a small amount of 30,000 pounds. However, with the advancement of the event, this year's championship prize money has risen to 50,000 pounds, because the first prize money in the European series and the competition for the top eight in a single season are quite fierce, so it has attracted many masters to sign up, including O'Sullivan, who has never played before, which is rare to register. However, in the Chinese legion, only Yan Bingtao did not register for the competition, which was really incomprehensible, and coupled with the situation he was currently facing, he could not understand his mysterious operation.
As a tour tournament that only qualifies for the top eight in a single season, the championship prize money is as high as 150,000 pounds, which is undoubtedly a huge temptation for all professional players, but to qualify, you must have excellent performances throughout the season to be in the top eight. This season, Yan Bingtao has won the German Masters runner-up, reached the northern Ireland Open final four, the English Open and the players' championship top eight, and once ranked stable in the top eight in a single season, but in the last three ranking matches, he has performed poorly and has been surpassed by the main competitors behind him, resulting in a failure. Today, his failure to sign up for the Gibraltar Open will cause him to lose many opportunities. I look forward to his best performance at the World Championships at the end of the season.