On the evening of January 30, Beijing time, the 2022 German Masters ended the first stage of the championship battle in Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany, and Zhao Xintong firmly suppressed his compatriot Yan Bingtao in the game, and finally won the lead with a huge advantage, and the second ranking championship of his career was within reach.
The German Masters is one of the European series and belongs to the C-ranked tournament, which has a prize money of £80,000. China's brother Ding Junhui won the tournament by beating Trump in the peak season of 2013.
After 8 years, the Chinese players have once again reached the final of the tournament, and it is of great significance:
For the fourth time in the history of snooker, the final of an important tournament was dominated by Chinese players, and the first three were led by Ding Junhui, Fu Jiajun and Xiao Guodong, which were the final of the Masters, the final of the Shanghai Masters and the final of the National Championship.
At 21:00 in the evening, the championship battle officially began, with 24-year-old British Champion Zhao Xintong playing against 21-year-old Masters champion Yan Bingtao, and the two sides had previously won each of the two previous encounters.
The final is played in two stages in 17 rounds with a 9-win format, with the first stage requiring eight rounds.
In this campaign, Zhao Xintong took the lead in the game, and under Yan Bingtao's strict defense, he frequently tore open the defense line with outstanding crosshairs, and successively blasted out 74 points, 118 points and 82 points in a single shot, and won a fantastic advantage of 4-0 in the next four sets.
Adjusting back in the middle of the game, Yan Bingtao lost the blue ball of the offensive top bag during the ball encirclement, and as a result, he was swept back by Zhao Xintong and directly played a single shot of 80+ to expand the score to 5-0.
The game was one-sided, and Yan Bingtao was now in a passive beating situation.
In the 6th set, Zhao Xintong continued to work hard, playing a single 60+ to rewrite the score to 6-0.
In the 7th set, Yan Bingtao made a mistake after playing a single 60 points, and the result was once again "cut off" by Zhao Xintong, and the single shot of 70 points was forced to reverse.
The game after that completely lost suspense, and in the end, Zhao Xintong led 8-0 on aggregate, and the second ranking championship of China's career was within reach.
The final phase of the two sides will be held at 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on January 31.