On the evening of February 3, Beijing time, the snooker 2022 Champions League Finals officially began to compete, and Chinese rising star Yan Bingtao performed poorly in the first group game with the "second master brother" Bingham, and finally lost to the opponent and met the group stage.
The Champions League Finals are composed of champions from each group, and the Chinese team has performed well in this Champions League, with a total of 3 golfers Zhao Xintong, Liang Wenbo and Yan Bingtao reaching the finals.
At 19:00 in the evening, the finals officially began to compete, and the first to appear was Yan Bingtao vs Bingham, Higgins vs. Dort.
Masters champion Yan Bingtao did poorly in the German Masters final derby a few days ago, and was bloodied by Zhao Xintong to lose the championship with an aggregate score of 0-9.
Xiao Yan's opponent in the first round of this group is the world champion Bingham, the two have met 8 times before, Yan Bingtao has the upper hand to win 5 games, and won the last 4 consecutive wins, the last time the two sides fought was in the semi-finals of the 2021 Masters, when Yan Bingtao successively blasted 1 shot to break 100 and 5 stroke 50+ firepower, with an aggregate score of 6-5 to kill the opponent.
In this campaign, Yan Bingtao won the first set with a narrow victory of 57:44, but in the second set, the second brother played a single 84 points to pull the score to a 1-1 draw. In the 3rd set, Yan Bingtao scored a single 69 points to reverse the score 2-1 again, but the good times were not long, Bingham caught Yan Bingtao's mistake in the next 4th set, and blasted a single 108 points to break the 100 to equalize the score again 2-2.
The two sides enter the decider, and the winner is determined in one game. In the game of life and death, Yan Bingtao prevented the loss of powder balls in the lottery stage, and finally was killed 2-3 on aggregate and lost the first game of the group stage.
In addition, after the end of this game, Zhao Xintong will appear on the scene, and his first round opponent is "Scottish Wizard" John. Higgins.