In the early morning of February 11, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker Players Championship continued to compete in the quarterfinals. In a focus game, China's strongest post-00s and Masters champion Yan Bingtao missed a good game, and was reversed by Barry Hawkins 5-6, missing the championship and 125,000 pounds (about 1.08 million) pounds.
The Snooker Players Championship is a very high-profile tournament in which only the top 16 players in the world rankings can participate in a single season. Masters champion and No. 9 seed Yan Bingtao, he was the 16th seed Barry Hawkins in the quarter-finals. The two players have a record of 3 encounters in total, and Hawkins has a record of 3 wins and 3 wins, which has a certain advantage.
Although the record between the two is not good, Yan Bingtao's progress in the past two years is very obvious, especially after winning the Masters championship, he has grown into a very stable player. In this game, Yan Bingtao entered the state as soon as he started, and Hawkins was obviously slow and hot. In the first set, Yan Bingtao single-handedly 139 clean sheet Hawkins, 1-0 to win the opening red.
In the second set, Yan Bingtao blasted another 103 points, winning easily 111-22, and the score came to 2-0. In the third set, after losing two consecutive sets in the opening game, Hawkins finally stopped the decline, and he began to find offensive form in this set, winning by 86 points and pulling back a set at 86-30, and the score came to 1-2.
In the fourth set, Hawkins won by 77 points again, and won another set 77-18, the score was 2-2, and the two sides entered the break with a draw. In the fifth set, Hawkins scored 95 points, winning another set 99-0 and winning 3-2.
After losing three straight sets, Yan Bingtao scored two 50+ in the next match, regaining the advantage 4-3 and winning the match point 5-4. Regrettably, after getting the match point, Yan Bingtao suddenly collapsed, lost two sets in a row, was reversed 5-6, and unfortunately missed the top 4.
Hawkins gave the British Champion a "round trip" 6-3 in a match against the no. 1 seed Zhao Xintong in the first round of the competition. In the quarter-finals, he reversed Yan Bingtao 6-5, and Hawkins has already looked after the champion after consecutive victories over Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao.