On December 17, Beijing time, in the quarter-final of the 2021 Snooker Grand Prix that ended in the early hours of this morning, China's Yan Bingtao lost 4-5 to "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson.
Before this game, Yan Bingtao was in good shape, only one round was lost in the first two rounds of the game, at the beginning of this game, he also played back and forth with Robertson of the world's top five levels, the first half was played 2-2, and the two still continued to blast out a single high score at halftime, Yan Bingtao once got the match point 4-3, but unfortunately, the decider Yan Bingtao lost a good game in the case of 43-0, and the mistake was seized by Robertson, and finally the defeat ended the Grand Prix journey.
After the game, Robertson praised the post-00s youngster from China, writing on his personal social media: "Winning the game is great, better than this is Yan Bingtao's sportsmanship, he congratulated me after the game and wished me a Merry Christmas." The sport is now in the hands of two young people, him and Zhao Xintong, who are excellent ambassadors. It is worth mentioning that as early as the snooker Championship at the beginning of this month, Robertson also had a lot of criticism of Chinese players.
The cause of the matter is that in the British Championships that ended earlier, the world's top ten famous players Sean Murphy was eliminated by China's youngster Scarlett In the first round, after the game, he said that China's amateur players disrupted the balance of the game and robbed their professional golfers of their jobs, but As the defending champion of the British Championship, Neil Robertson was also defeated by another amateur player, he expressed his recognition of Murphy in the interview, and expressed dissatisfaction with some Chinese golfers and amateur golfers.
The two men's views caused waves among the other golfers, With Trump and Mark Williams agreeing, but the two did not comment on the Chinese players, but expressed their confusion that the International Taiwan Federation had allowed golfers who did not pass the Q School exam to qualify for the British Championship, but the players also scoffed at Murphy and Robertson's words, and Rocket O'Sullivan said that the two men were completely unaffordable and willing to play amateur golfers.
The last thing became a joke with the Chinese golfer Zhao Xintong winning the championship in the British Championship, and Robertson's attitude change can also be seen that in the field of competitive sports, only with a cultivated sportsmanship and absolute strength, to subdue opponents, can they really get their respect, looking forward to Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, two chinese snooker supernovas can shine in the future career!