At the end of the final of the 6th group of the Snooker Champions League, Yan Bingtao scored a three-shot 50+, defeated Martin Gould 3-1, won the championship strongly, and reached the winner's group, which was really good news, and in the second set Yan Bingtao staged a one-set extreme reversal.
The format of this competition may be more familiar to everyone, taking the 6th group as an example, 7 people first play a round-robin tournament, only the top 4 can enter the semi-finals, and only the group champion can enter the winner group. In the group round robin, Yan Bingtao won 5 and lost 1, and Gould 4 wins and 2 losses to reach the semi-finals, and defeated Karen Wilson and Ding Junhui respectively to reach the final.
Yan Bingtao is a talented player in China, who has won the ranking championship and the master championship, although he failed to successfully defend the masters championship earlier, he is still a TOP16 player, and his strength is still very strong; "Glasses Man" Gould plays calmly. In the group round robin, Yan Bingtao defeated Gould 3-0, and before this Champions League, the two had a total of 6 encounters, Yan Bingtao had an absolute advantage of 5 wins and 1 loss, so in all aspects, Yan Bingtao's strength was far stronger than Gould's.
In the first set, Yan Bingtao took the initiative, scoring 94 points and keeping a 118-0 clean sheet. In the second set, Gould played a single 63 points, but there was a mistake in the black ball that was about to exceed the score, Yan Bingtao got on the hand, and completed the single shot of 65 points, staged a big reversal, and won the match point 2-0.
In the third set, Gould finally found the feel, single 61 points, 89-0 clean sheet Yan Bingtao, to win back a set. In the fourth set, Yan Bingtao did not waste the opportunity again, scoring 63 points, 76-0 to pay tribute to the clean sheet, and successfully won the championship 3-1.