[Sports Road News]The 2022 Pool Tour Championship (Tour Championship) will be held in Llandudno, Wales for 7 consecutive days from today (28th). Since the current “World One” Selby (Mark Selby) failed to enter the competition, so “Rocket” O’Sullivan (Ronnie O’Sullivan) will definitely return to the world’s No. 1 ranking next Monday (4th), after nearly 3 years, with an “aged” of 46 years and 119 days!
O’Sullivan’s “round trip” at the Gibraltar Open last week still did not prevent him from surpassing “Joker” Shabby a week later to become the oldest world No. 1 in nearly 40 years after Ray Reardon (50 years, 206 days). The second oldest No.1 in history. “Rocket” first topped “World One” in 2002, when he was only 26 years old, and then from May 2002 to May 2003, May 2004 to May 2006, and May 2008 to 2010 In May of 2019, and from March to August 2019, he was the “first brother”, and his cumulative reign was 5 years and 129 days. O’Sullivan will play in the World Championships next month as “World One”, but if he fails to win the title for the seventh time, he will give up the world No. 1 throne after the game.
The World Snooker Tour also shared the 16-seeded list of the World Championships. The defending champions Mark Selby and O’Sullivan ranked first and second respectively. The remaining 14 stars included Judd Trump, Neil Robertson, Kyren Wilson, John Higgins, Zhao Xintong, Mark Williams, Barry Hawkins, Shaun Murphy, Anthony McGill, Stuart Bingham, Jack Lisowski, Luca Brecel, Mark Allen and Yan Bingtao. The World Snooker Championships will be staged at Crucible from April 16 to May 2. The qualifying rounds will be held from April 4 to 13. Hong Kong’s leading men’s and women’s players Fu Jiajun and Ng On-yee will all participate.
As for the last event before the World Championships, the Tour Championship, which was launched in 2019, only the top 8 players in a single season can participate. (29th) smashed Allen, O’Sullivan fought against Williams on Wednesday (30th), and Zolymp faced Bisul on Thursday (31st).
This article was originally published by “Sportsroad” on “[Billiard]46-year-old Osulliyun re-entered “Seiyi” after 3 years, the 2nd longest No.1 in history”
