On January 10, the second day of the 2022 Snooker Masters, yan bingtao and Zhao Xintong, the two new generation players of the Chinese legion, had already lost, and the journey was ended by a round of travel. One is the defending champion, one is the champion of this season's Xinkeying Championship, but even if it is the title of the three major competitions, they have not been able to continue to create miracles in this year's Masters, and the original two are expected to pass the first round of the test, successfully meet in the second round, and stage the long-lost Chinese derby in the Masters, but they did not expect that the final result was indeed both out. After Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong and other young players have created miracles one after another, many people in the industry predicted that young people will finally start to grab power, but now it seems that it is still too early.
At the Masters a year ago, China's post-00s rising star Yan Bingtao made his career debut, did not expect three consecutive tiebreakers, reached the final in one fell swoop, and in the final final, Like Higgins won the championship, creating another long-lost new champion of the three major competitions after Ding Junhui in China Snooker. At the same time, Yan Bingtao's world ranking continues to stabilize in the top 16 ranks in the world, becoming a seeded player who fights side by side with Ding Junhui. In this season's British Championship, Zhao Xintong began to go on a rampage, and after continuously defeating a number of good players, he met with the Belgian star Brechel, who was also born after 90, and finally he was a black to the end, won the championship, and became the second person after Ding Junhui again.
As Ding Junhui fell out of the world's top 16 seeds, Zhao Xintong rushed up and replaced the position of a brother, so that the world's top 16 seed ranks still maintain two Chinese players. With Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong winning two championships in three major competitions, plus Karen Wilson, Brechel, Lisowski and other post-90s, and even post-00s and other mesozoic and new generation players have played well one after another, a strong impact has been formed on the post-70s represented by "Seven-Five-Three Masters" O'Sullivan, Higgins, williams, and the post-80s represented by the "Post-80s Five Tigers" Selby, Robertson, Murphy, Ding Junhui and Trump. And the world snooker officials also hope that young people will be able to challenge the old authority and establish the order and rule of the new generation of young people.
Unfortunately, in the two days before the 2022 Snooker Masters, the veterans hit back at the spirited youngsters with ruthless facts. Williams, 46, and Higgins, 46, faced opponents of their son's age without the slightest hint of twilight, and even played with momentum and lethality, beating China's two most rising stars almost helplessly. Defending champion Yan Bingtao lost to Williams 4-6, and Xinkeying Championship champion Zhao Xintong lost to Higgins 2-6, from the score alone, it seems that there is not much gap, but the details of the game determine the gap, the stability of young people and psychological resistance to pressure, it is indeed far less than the veteran. In the future, if you want to go further, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong still have a long way to go, and being strong is the king.