On January 19, 2022, the sixth group of the Snooker Champions League ended, Ding Junhui lost 1-3 to Yan Bingtao to the seventh group, and after 00, Yan Bingtao won the sixth group championship, becoming the third Chinese player to break into the winner's group after Liang Wenbo and Zhao Xintong.
Ding Junhui won the first set with a single stroke of 97 points in the match against Yan Bingtao, but in the next few sets, Yan Bingtao won with 138 points, 71 points and 58 points, beating Ding Junhui 3-1. Since the beginning of this season, Ding Junhui has not been in very good shape, and the world ranking has fallen out of the top 16. He will play in the single-time limited time game on the evening of January 21, hoping that Director Ding will play well.
Yan Bingtao is currently ranked 15th in the world, and he is the first player in the post-00s generation to win the Masters championship. In the sixth group match of the Champions League, Yan Bingtao defeated Ali Carter, Ding Junhui and others all the way, defeated Karen Wilson 3-0 in the group semi-finals, and defeated Martin Gould 3-0 in the group final with a three-shot 50+, 3-0 victory.
In the past record of Yan Bingtao and Martin Gould, Yan Bingtao has a clear advantage of 6 wins and 1 loss. In the first set of the game, Yan Bingtao felt very good, single shot 94 points, 118-0 clean sheet Gould won the first win. In the second set, Martin Gould scored 63 points and Yan Bingtao scored 65 points to win the set by two points and lead 2-0.
In the third set, Martin Gould scored a single shot of 61 points, Yan Bingtao did not score several times in this set, and finally Martin Gould 89-0 clean sheet Yan Bingtao pulled back a set. In the fourth set, Yan Bingtao regained his rhythm, scored 63 points in a single shot, did not give Martin Gould another chance, won the match again 76-0 with a clean sheet, won the group championship 3-1, and advanced to the winner group.