In the early morning of April 20, Beijing time, the 2022 World Snooker Championship ended the fourth day of competition. Yan Bingtao, a mainlander, played two stages in one day, defeated Wackering 10-6 and successfully advanced to the round of 16. Another mainland player, Lu Haotian, struggled to catch up, but eventually fell behind too much, losing 5-10 to Bingham to stop the first round. On the foreign side, Robertson beat Hugh Gil 10-5, Higgins temporarily trailed Thailand's Tachaia 4-5 and Lisovsky led Stevens 6-3 at halftime.
This is Yan Bingtao's fourth trip to Crucible to compete in the final round of the World Championships, after he had twice reached the round of 16. In the first nine innings of the game, Yan Bingtao blasted out a single 100, and another 7 50+ scores. However, due to Wacklin's confrontational performance, many times later to complete the reversal, but also handed over a single shot over 100 and 3 strokes 50+ data, Yan Bingtao only led the opponent 5-4 in the first half.
In the second half, Vaaklin came up and blasted a single 77 points in the tenth inning to win, equalizing the total score 5-5. In the eleventh set, Yan Bingtao scored 55 points to set the victory, and then he won the 106 points in the twelfth set to honor the clean sheet, the thirteenth set 77-17 to win the tug-of-war, the fourteenth set of 53 points again, a drum to go down four cities, 9-5 to bring out the match point. Vackering saved a match point 62-51 in the fifteenth set, and Yan Bingtao won again in the sixteenth set 70-8 to finally lock up the qualification 10-6. In the second round, Yan Bingtao will challenge defending champion Mark Selby.
Lu Haotian trailed 2015 champion Bingham 3-6 the day before, who won two straight sets at the start of the second half today to extend the advantage to 8-3. Lu Haotian stubbornly resisted, and in the twelfth and thirteenth innings, he blasted out 86 and 62 consecutive singles to win, chasing 5-8. In the fourteenth set, Lu Haotian took the lead in taking a single shot of 55 points, but Bingham's backhand of 68 points was sharper, and he came to the match point position. In the fifteenth set, Lu Haotian hit a red ball error in the middle of the stage, Bingham ended the match 67-6, 10-5 to advance to the second round, he will compete with the winner between Ding Junhui and Wilson for the top 8 tickets.
Higgins clashed with Thai fast gunner Thachaia. Both sides won a slow set in the first two sets to make it 1-1. In the third set, Tacchaia took the lead in finding the crosshairs, and single-shot 80 points to seal the wizard. In the fourth set, Higgins also successfully turned on the fire switch, and the single shot 128 returned to the opponent. In the fifth and sixth innings, Takchaia won consecutively, while the Wizards slammed back-to-back 106 and 98 points in the seventh and eighth innings, bringing the score to a 4-4 draw. In the ninth inning, Tacchaia scored another 114 points to give up the egg again, leading 5-4 to end the first half. The second half of the match between the two sides continued today at 17:00 Beijing time.
Lissovsky was clearly better in the first nine innings, blasting two over-100 and four 50+, while Matthew Stevens only scored a single 108 in the ninth inning, Lisowski took a 6-3 lead, and the two sides parted at 21:30 Beijing time this evening.