On April 19, the first round of the 2022 World Snooker Championships continued, with China's famous player Yan Bingtao, the 16th seed of the tournament, appearing against England's Wakelin. In the first 9 innings of the first stage of the two, Yan Bingtao played a gorgeous stat, breaking 100 and 7 50+, but he encountered multiple single-set reversals from his opponents, and finally took a temporary lead over Wecklin 5-4. The biggest favourite to win the world championship this year, the 3rd seed Australian star Robertson, defeated the newcomer Hugh Gill who participated in the main tournament for the first time 10-5, becoming the ninth player to advance to the round of 16.
Yan Bingtao, a post-00s player of the Chinese Legion, has played in the World Championships as a seed for two consecutive seasons, and his opponent in the first round this year is England's Wei Kelin, who is ranked 62nd in the world. Yan Bingtao is in good overall condition this season, having won the second place in the German Masters, but was defeated 9-0 by Zhao Xintong in the final, creating an embarrassing record. Before the World Championships, Yan Bingtao was lucky enough to get the opportunity to return to the top 16 and was able to directly enter the main tournament as a seed.
In the match with Wei Kelin, Yan Bingtao scored a single shot 71 in the first set, but in the second set, Wei Kelin seized the opportunity and directly scored a high score to break the hundred, and the single shot 130 points were tied. In the third set, Yan Bingtao scored a single shot of 68 points, but lost the super point ball, Anderie Wei Kelin completed the reversal with 74 points on the first shot, 2-1; in the fourth set, Yan Bingtao scored 79 points and chased to a 2-2 draw to enter the intermission.
In the fifth set, Yan Bingtao shot two 50+ in a single inning, with 69 and 56 points in a single shot, leading 3-2 again. In the sixth set, Yan Bingtao scored 62 points, and it was another super score to lose, and Wecklin scored 51 points to complete the super score of 64-62, 2 points, chasing to 3-3 draw. In the seventh set, Wecklin scored 55 points to win 4-3. In the eighth set, Yan Bingtao opened the situation with a risky and powerful attack on the K ball, scoring 84 points in a single shot to chase down to a 4-4 draw. In the last set of the first stage, Yan Bingtao seized the opportunity to burst out of the hundred, scoring 100 points in a single shot, temporarily leading Wecklin 5-4.
In another match in the same period, Robertson, who was officially rated as the biggest favorite to win the championship before the game, suffered a score in the second stage after leading Hugh Gill, who made his first time in the main game, 6-3 in the first stage. Robertson was left behind 1-3 to take a 9-3 lead by winning eight straight sets before Hugh Gill won two straight sets to get back two match points. However, in the last set, Robertson seized the opportunity to blast the fourth personal score of the game, 109 points, and won 10-5 to advance to the round of 16. The second round will be against the winner between Lisovsky and Stevens.