The 2022 Snooker Masters finally kicked off with the expectations of thousands of fans, and the first match of the opener was Chinese player Yan Bingtao against single-season Grand Slam winner Mark Williams.
Last season's Masters in the 00s of the young Yan Bingtao passed the hurdle will lift the first three major championship trophy of his career, this time Yan Bingtao as the defending champion is also bound to defend the title to continue to impact the championship.
Mark Williams also attaches great importance to the Masters, in order to be able to better prepare for the previous Champions League, the 46-year-old veteran will definitely do his best in the final stages of his career to impact every chance to win the three major competitions.
The game began Williams took the lead in kicking off, Yan Bingtao then started twice but failed to score continuously, after a defensive attack, Williams seized the opportunity but made a low-level mistake when the situation was about to open, Yan Bingtao smiled and made a 60+ to win the opening red at 1:0.
Back in the second set, Williams relied on accuracy to score a long red ball to get started, but the good times did not last long again in the lead of 37 points in the middle bag error, Yan Bingtao on the field to unfold a delicate ball to clear the table again to complete the single par 60+ to lead 2:0.
In the next set, Williams made a mistake on the long stage, Yan Bingtao had a problem in the position when he was 36 points ahead, after the two defended, Williams scored a difficult red ball and made a super snooker when hitting the color ball, Yan Bingtao went on the stage to solve the ball seven times and missed the ball, and Williams won back a set with a second super point.
In the fourth game, Williams began to attack around the black ball after Yan Bingtao's attack was interrupted, but there was a bizarre mistake when he pushed the ball with a simple push, Yan Bingtao came on stage again to complete the super score, Williams came to the stage to try snooker fruitlessly and chose to concede defeat, and the two sides entered the halftime break.
After the rest returned, the feel of both of them declined, Williams then started to play the score and scored a high-difficulty sticker color ball to achieve super points, Yan Bingtao did not give up playing to make a precise snooker, and Williams was to reproduce the unique one-handed solution and accurately solve the pink ball that won the game, this fairy ball also booked the top ten goals of this Masters in advance.
Williams also found the state of the game after scoring that fairy ball, first through a 60+ to establish a lead and then equalize twice, and then in the case of a delay in the seventh set to catch Yan Bingtao's bench error to officially overtake the score with a three-game winning streak to 4:3.
In a crucial round, Yan Bingtao missed the opportunity to return the ball, and the crazy Ma Wei directly started to bombard the long stage, and did not give Yan Bingtao a chance to take the stage, and blasted out the first shot of the game to reach the match point 5:3. Yan Bingtao also began to give a free hand when he returned from the eighth set, seizing the opportunity to directly return a large over 100 to bring the score back to 5:4.
However, in the next round, Ma Wei still felt undiminished and took the lead, and Yan Bingtao leaked out opportunities in the defensive process, and Ma Wei once again started to officially overscore and finally staged a big reversal 6:4 to give Yan Bingtao a round trip.
Throughout the matchup, Yan Bingtao performed very well in the first half and has been suppressing the opponent, but Ma Wei completely opened it after passing a fairy ball, and in the second half, he strongly exploded and broke the hundred and finally advanced strongly.
In this way, Yan Bingtao's dream of defending the title was completely shattered and tragically destroyed by a round of travel, the Chinese players are only Left Zhao Xintong alone can be described as a sharp increase in pressure, if Zhao Xintong can advance to the quarterfinals will be Ma Wei, I hope that the next game Zhao Xintong can withstand the pressure to launch an impact on the championship.