Communiqué a personal vendetta? Retired celebrities look down on Yan Bingtao, Masters champion PK Uncle Ma, the New Year's opening?

The 2022 Snooker Masters kicked off tonight with defending champion Yan Bingtao PK Mark Williams vying for a place in the quarter-finals. Yan Bingtao is the defending champion of the Masters, and last year's debut lifted the cup with three world champions, Robertson, Bingham and Higgins. China's post-00s are about to fire the first shot of defending their title, striving to complete the 2-game killing streak against Jin's left hand.

For Yan Bingtao's performance in this Masters, McManus, who served as the commentator of the Masters, was not optimistic. The Scottish veteran, who won the Masters, announced his retirement after losing 3-6 to Browning in the second round of the World Championships last year, ending his 31-year career. McManus was not optimistic about Yan Bingtao's performance in this year's Masters, predicting that the Chinese celebrities would be out of the first round because the pressure on the defending champions would be great. The statement of the former Masters champion is inevitably suspected of a personal vendetta, after all, he chose to retire after losing to the Chinese player, and the reasons he gave were untenable. Yan Bingtao is a well-known teenager, and if he did not have a big heart, he would not have been able to become the final winner of last year's Masters, becoming the first post-00s to win three major competitions to create history.

Yan Bingtao and Mark Williams have won 2 and lost 3 of their last five meetings, and the Chinese teenager has lost 3 consecutive matches, but in the last 1 meeting, they have taken revenge 3-1, that was in last year's Champions League. This season, Uncle Ma won the British Open to unlock the 24th crown in the ranking competition, and Yan Bingtao reached the top 4 of the Northern Ireland Tournament and the championship respectively, and the difference between the strength of the 2 people is not large.

Uncle Ma would have ushered in the first game of 2022 in The 3rd Group of the Champions League, but he chose to retire before the game, probably to avoid fatigue and prepare for the Masters. Yan Bingtao's New Year debut is the Masters, and he can't wait to prepare to impact the New Year's opening. Zhao Xintong has won 8 consecutive victories in the Champions League Group 3 and is shortlisted for the winner group, looking forward to Yan Bingtao continuing to add glory to China's snooker.