In the early morning of February 11, Beijing time, the 2022 Players Championship ended another quarterfinal competition in Wolverhampton, England, with Chinese rising star Yan Bingtao in a match with world toughster Barry. Hawkins' duel was a failure, during which he broke through 100 high scores, but in the end he was killed by his opponent and missed the top 4.
42-year-old Barry. Hawkins is recognized as a world-renowned power player, and has repeatedly defeated Ding Junhui at his peak in the early days to attract the attention of the outside world.
This season, he reached the final of the Masters, and as the last seeded player in this competition, Master Huo suffered a big loss from Zhao Xintong at the British Championship. Therefore, when he encountered Zhao Xintong again in the first round of this competition, Barry appeared to be impatient and successfully avenged Zhao Xintong with an aggregate score of 6-3.
But when he faced another Chinese player, Yan Bingtao, again, Master Huo still resisted the blow.
The two sides have only met 4 times before, Hawkins has the upper hand to win 3 games, and all of them are grabbing more than 5 games, and Yan Bingtao's last victory over his opponent is in the 2021 Champions League.
In the first four innings, Master Huo was scared out of a sweaty cold sweat, and Yan Bingtao, who had already blasted 3 shots to break the hundred in the first round, was not soft at the beginning, and won the applause of the whole hall with 139 points and 103 points in a row, and won a 2-0 lead over Master Huo.
Fortunately, Barry, who has been fighting for a long time, stabilized his position and grabbed Yan Bingtao's mistakes in two consecutive sets to play a single-shot 86 point and 77 points respectively to stage a single-game reversal to make the score 2-2.
After the break, Barry scored another 90+ to turn the score back 3-2. Yan Bingtao, who lost three cities in a row, stopped the decline and surpassed the score 4-3 with 54 points and 98 points.
In the following game, although Master Huo pulled the score 4-4 96:1, Yan Bingtao once again exerted his strength and blasted the third shot of the game to break 132 points to win the match point 5-4.
However, the troublesome Master Huo also blasted a single shot of 126 points in the 10th set to break the hundred, dragging the game into the decider 5-5.
In the game of life and death, Yan Bingtao's aggressive fight lost the initiative, and finally Master Huo completed the thrilling 6-5 on aggregate to advance to the round of 4, and the semi-final will be against Richie. Walton.