29th Ranked Player Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Ding Junhui | 2013 Champion of Champions ‒ Snooker

Great resolve with the help of a bit of fortune by the then-reigning world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan to put Ding Junhui, the man of the moment, under pressure and make the ending of this quarter-final match especially exciting.

Ding had won the last three ranking events and ended up winning five in the season. On the other side, Ronnie O'Sullivan had won the last two World Championships, although he didn't have a good start on this match.

Unbelievably, the 2012 and 2013 world champion was ranked 29th under the old ranking system, even though its scope of evaluation included both world titles. Although O'Sullivan then won the Welsh Open and was runner-up at the World Championship, he dropped to 39th at the end of the 2013/14 season. At the beginning of the next season, the old system, based on point tariffs, was replaced by the current ranking system based on prize money.

Something unprecedented happened that season. All first seven ranking tournaments were won by players from outside the UK: four by Ding, two by Neil Robertson and one by Marco Fu (the previous highest number was two when Ding and Robertson won the first and second ranking events in the 2006/07 season). The eighth ranking event was the Welsh Open in March 2014, where Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Ding Junhui 9-3 in the final.

The statistics shown in the video correspond to the date of the match.

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