On the evening of April 22, the Snooker World Championship began a focus battle, the mainland teenager Yan Bingtao faced the defending champion Mark Selby, after Ding Junhui was out, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong were the hope of China snooker. This is the first time in their careers that the two have met at the World Championships, the previous record of the meeting is Yan Bingtao 4 wins and 3 losses, and won all 3 of the season, but all in the short game system, so Yan Bingtao's game against Selby this time is a new challenge, because Selby is best at the World Championships, which is a long-game game.
The game officially began, both sides were extremely cautious, and entered a long defensive battle at the beginning, in the defensive battle in the first set, Selby took the lead, and twice played a 54-point first to take the lead, leading Yan Bingtao 1-0! In the 2nd set, the opening two sides were once again caught in a long battle, the quality of the defense was very high, the first mistake was Yan Bingtao, Selby once again played a single 54 points to get 67 points twice, but Yan Bingtao did not give up, forced The Master Sai to make a mistake in the defensive battle in the back, through the two-shot clearance to complete the single-game reversal at 74-67, 1-1 equalization! In the 3rd set, Yan Bingtao first scored a very difficult ultra-low pole far post, and then remained calm and chose to be a snooker, and did not force the attack on the coffee ball.
This choice made Master Sai go wrong again, Yan Bingtao started to single-pole 104 points to clear the stage, 2-1 rebound score! In the 4th round, Yan Bingtao took the lead in getting 49 points and then made a mistake, Master Sai started to play a single shot of 50 points again, but this 50+ still did not let Master Sai win, Yan Bingtao seized the other party's mistake to clear the stage smoothly, and won 3 consecutive games in the case of losing a game first, playing a dream start! It is worth mentioning that the average time spent by both sides in the first 4 innings was close to 30 minutes per set! After a 15-minute break, the game continues, the second phase of the two sides will be played at 17:00 Beijing time on April 23, "Inverted Sword Flower" will be pushed to report in time, please pay attention.