In the early morning of January 30, Beijing time, the second semi-final of the 2021/22 World Snooker German Masters ended at the Tempodrom Theater in Berlin, Germany, and China's 21-year-old Yan Bingtao faced Mark Allen, dared to fight, and finally defeated the opponent 6-4, thus reaching the final with Zhao Xintong, who had previously defeated Riggy Wharton 6-3, and was about to stage the "China Derby".
For Yan, this is the fourth time in his career that he has reached the final of the ranking tournament after the 2017/18 Northern Ireland Open, the 2019/20 Riga Masters and the Players Championship, after winning only the Riga Masters. At this Year's German Masters, he successively cut down David Gilbert, Selby, Ryan Day, especially against Selby and Ryan Day, all played the decider, and finally withstood the pressure to win 5-4, the competitive state and the desire to win have reached a high level.
This opponent Mark Allen, Yan Bingtao has played with him four times, except for the 2016 England Open 4-3 win, the other three have lost, but the most recent meeting, back to the 2018 China Open. In this game, Allen scored a single shot of 75 points, 103-7 ahead of the next city, and then Yan Bingtao played several times to return the favor 77-35. In the third quarter, the two sides were entangled, after you and me, Allen narrowly won 58-50, but Yan Bingtao broke out in the fourth set and blasted a single shot of 116 points to tie the score to 2-2.
After a short break, the two sides fought a defensive battle in the fifth set, Yan Bingtao first played 19 points, but there was no chance to turn to Ann Global, Allen showed a flaw after several rounds of defense, Yan Bingtao seized the opportunity to shoot 53 points, 72-0 clean sheet opponent, the first time in the game. In the sixth set, Allen made another mistake after a single shot of 46 points, and Yan Bingtao decisively scored a red ball in Theku to start clearing the stage, but after the same single shot 46 points, a difficult red ball could not be entered. Although Allen made a difficult snooker and fined Yan Bingtao some points, the Chinese teenager still won the mobile meeting, 72-59 and then went to the next city, 4-2.
However, Allen's counterattack was also very sharp, in the seventh set, he started with a 104 points, chasing the score to 3-4, but in the eighth set he did not resist the pressure in a fierce battle, losing 49-58, giving Yan Bingtao a 5-3 lead and getting the match point. In the crucial ninth inning, Allen played a stable defensive skill, and twice got the phone will score 45 points, but the offensive black ball failed to come out, but unfortunately Yan Bingtao only played 16 points after the same mistake, Allen scored another 22 points, 67-16 to chase another set, 4-5.
In the last set, Allen sent the black ball to the mouth of the bag, and Yan Bingtao accidentally fouled when attacking continuously, and in the absence of anyone to find out, he took the initiative to show the situation to the referee and gave up the great opportunity to clear the stage, but his gentlemanly demeanor and fair play spirit ushered in warm applause from the audience, which also brought him a rich reward. The last few red balls, he was high-energy output in extremely difficult situations, playing the limit accuracy. But in the stage of cleaning up the color balls, the coffee balls failed to turn over the bag. After Allen scored a coffee ball, he made a mistake in offensive basketball. The last three black balls were contested, Yan Bingtao made wonderful snooker many times, constantly letting Allen score points, and finally with a powder ball hollow into the bag, Yan Bingtao won the game 6-4 and won the final victory.
In this way, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong joined hands to reach the final of this Year's German Masters, which is also the second time since Ding Junhui defeated Fu Jiajun 10-9 at the 2013 International Championships that the final China Derby appeared after 9 years. In the early morning of January 31, Beijing time, two Young Chinese players who will win the second ranking championship of their careers are worth waiting to see.
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