On April 19, 2022, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship continued, and China's Yan Bingtao shot 1 hundred and 7 50+, but only led Chris Walkerlin 5-4. In two of the sets, Yan Bingtao made mistakes when he was about to exceed the score, especially in the third set, Yan Bingtao led 68-0, but was reversed to the limit, Yan Bingtao had the opportunity to lead 7-2, but he lost a good game.
At this World Championship, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao are both seed players, and Zhao Xintong, who took the lead, easily advanced to the round of 16. Yan Bingtao's opponent is Chris Walkering, and the two have played each other twice in the past, winning one game each, but that was two or three years ago. Today's Yan Bingtao has grown rapidly, is already a Masters champion, and as a seed player, he is certainly more optimistic.
After the opening, Yan Bingtao showed a good offensive feel, scoring a single 71 points in the first set, taking the lead. Not to be outdone, Chris Walkering scored a single 130-pointer in the second inning with a clean sheet. The third set was quite exciting, Yan Bingtao scored a single 68 points, but there was a mistake when he was about to overtake the score, Chris Walkerlin completed the extreme reversal with a single shot of 74 points, and the audience cheered.
After that, Yan Bingtao once again exerted his strength, playing a single 79 points in the fourth inning and a two-shot 50+ in the fifth inning to lead 3-2. In the sixth inning, almost a repeat of the third inning, Yan Bingtao scored a single 62 points, and then made another mistake, and Chris Walkerlin completed the reversal with a single 51 points. Morale-boosting Chris Walkerlin then won the seventh set to take a 4-3 lead.
However, Yan Bingtao was not affected, the mentality is indeed very mature, he played a single shot of 84 points and 100 points in a row, the last two sets of the first half all kept a clean sheet on the opponent, the big score of 5-4 lead. Yan Bingtao's offensive continuity is relatively good, and he had the opportunity to take a 7-2 lead, or even an 8-1 lead, but he lost a good game, which is worth summarizing. 5-4 shows that the game still has a lot of suspense, Yan Bingtao must improve his performance, after all, the opponent is not a soft persimmon.
In another match, world champion Neil Robertson hit another one-shot breaker in the second half and shot a four-stroke breaker to eliminate Ashley Hugh Gill 10-5 to advance to the round of 16. Title-winning favourite Neil Robertson will face the winner between Matthew Stevens and Lissovsky in the second round.
At present, the round of 16 has decided 9 places, namely Selby, Jackson Peggy, Mark Williams, Anthony McGill in the top half, Neil Robertson, Zhao Xintong, Stephen Maguire, Mark Allen and O'Sullivan in the bottom half.