On January 29, Beijing time, the Snooker German Masters continued. Yan Bingtao, a young player after the mainland 00, played a 4-stroke 50+ reversal match against the world's no. 1 Trump to advance to the quarterfinals.
Yan Bingtao is from the CBSA World Snooker Academy and is the first professional player trained by the academy. Since its inception, the college has been adhering to the teaching tenet of "not for profit, focusing on cultivating excellent snooker players", and has successively trained a total of 9 professional players such as Zhao Xintong and Fan Zhengyi after Yan Bingtao. Yan Bingtao also won the Masters last season, Zhao Xintong also won the British Championship this season, and in the just-arrived war report, Zhao Xintong eliminated the world's second-place Trump 5-1 and advanced to the semifinals.
Yan Bingtao is currently ranked 15th in the world, and his opponent in this round is the world's first Selby with obvious strength. But Yan Bingtao was not cowardly because of the opponent's ranking, and he showed a very strong explosive force in the game, contributing to a very wonderful match.
In the first inning of the game, Yan Bingtao failed to score several times, and it can be seen that the confrontation with the world number one is stressful for him. In the first inning, Selby scored 92 points through several starts, taking the lead in the first set. In the second set, Yan Bingtao found his own rhythm, winning by 87 points in a single shot, pulling the score to a 1-1 draw. In the third set, Yan Bingtao's hand was still online, playing a single shot of 57 points, Selby did not have a good effect, Yan Bingtao finally won another set 102-33 to take a 2-1 lead. But at the beginning of the fourth inning, Selby's feel entered an explosive period, and Yan Bingtao fell into the rhythm of Selby, and in the next three sets, Yan Bingtao only scored 18 points in total.
In the fourth set, Selby scored 50 points and won 91-4 to equalize. In the fifth set after a brief adjustment, Selby scored 119 points to win another set, followed by the sixth inning, Selby scored 57 points, and through the next few starts, won another set 109-4, three consecutive wins to bring the score to (Selby) 4-2 (Yan Bingtao), Selby led 2 sets to enter the match point at a super high. Faced with such a situation, Yan Bingtao showed his explosive power in the seventh set, single-shot 95 points to recover a match point. Even so, he was one game behind.
In the eighth set, Selby, who wanted to finish the game quickly, slowed down and tried to control the rhythm of the game in his own hands. But Yan Bingtao stabilized his mentality, did not hurry and carefully coped, and looked for a breakthrough from it. Under the several rounds of attack and defense between the two, Yan Bingtao gradually gained a slight advantage, and finally brought the game into a double match point decider 64-45. In the decider, Selby seemed a little impatient, but Yan Bingtao still steadily observed the situation on the field, and finally scored 69 points, won the decider 74-47, and reversed Selby 5-4 to advance to the next round!