This year's world snooker first race, the 2022 Masters, kicked off at 9 p.m. last night. Yan Bingtao, the defending champion of the Chinese Players Masters, and Zhao Xintong, the champion of the ST British Championship, participated in the Masters.
The opener was a match between Yan Bingtao and Mark Williams. In the first two sets, Ma Wei scored points first, but after the mistake, Yan Bingtao seized the opportunity to complete the reversal with two 60+. In the 3rd inning, Marvel used snooker to take advantage of the opportunity to win a set with a 60+ shot. In the 4th set, Yan Bingtao once again caught Ma Wei's mistake and shot 50+ to take a 3-1 lead, and the start was quite smooth. However, after a short break, the wind direction suddenly changed. In the 5th set, Ma Wei seized the opportunity exposed by Yan Bingtao's mistakes, a 50+ to complete the super point, Yan Bingtao only had a pink and black situation, tenaciously created a high-quality snooker, but the relaxed Ma Wei actually used a one-handed solution to snooker, and also magically solved the powder ball. Since then, Ma Wei has performed bravely, coupled with a little luck, and has played 60+ and a hundred in a row, winning four consecutive sets and making it 5-3 to match points. In the 9th set, Yan Bingtao seized the opportunity exposed by Ma Wei's kick-off, played a very beautiful all-red clearance on the long stage, and saved a match point. In the 10th set, Ma Wei long platform fainted again, 40 points after the K ball pile was interrupted; Yan Bingtao a good defense, Ma Wei twice thin ball miss, the third time but accurate long platform scored a red ball to get started, a shot of 80+, locked the win, 6-4 eliminated Yan Bingtao. Yan Bingtao actually played quite well in this game, but in the face of Ma Wei, who was in good shape in the second half, he regrettably lost.
In the second game at three in the morning, Robertson shot a four-shot 50+ and played multiple times in the end to eliminate McGill 6-3.
After Yan Bingtao was out, the Chinese players looked at Zhao Xintong. Tonight at 9 o'clock, following last year's British Championship, Zhao Xintong's three major competitions once again played against Higgins. Zhao Xintong won the group championship in the third group of the Champions League at the beginning of the year, winning 8 consecutive games, while breaking the 100 professional number and breaking 100 strokes. I hope that Zhao Xintong can continue his good form to the Masters.