The second round of the 2022 World Snooker Championships is in full swing, with Mark Williams beating Jackson Page in the first two matches to beat Jackson Page in advance in the second stage, with Ronnie O'Sullivan temporarily leading Mark Allen 6-2.
The two matches that domestic fans are most looking forward to are the duels between Chinese youngsters Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who feels that Zhao Xintong is 5-11 behind in the second stage of the match against Maguire, and the road to promotion is becoming more and more uncertain.
The duel between Yan Bingtao and Selby was also predicted by the outside world as a "defensive battle" before the game, and the two were often compared by fans due to their playing style, and the confrontation record Yan Bingtao was four wins and three losses, and in the last three encounters Yan Bingtao was all won.
At the beginning of the game, the two sides began to defend, after a struggle, Yan Bingtao took the lead in trying to attack the red ball of the long table in the side bank but failed to score and missed the opportunity, Selby made a mistake after establishing a lead, but Yan Bingtao, who started for the second time, failed to reverse Selby and played again to complete the super points and get the opening red.
In the second set, the two continued to compete defensively, Selby made a precise defense to force Yan Bingtao to foul and get the mobile phone to establish a lead, but when Selby lost the key combination ball when he was about to overtake the score, Yan Bingtao resisted the pressure to return to the wonderful defense to get the opportunity to complete the clearance with a black ball to kill the score 1-1.
The next set of young Yan Bingtao is obviously more energetic than Selby, the first start of the attack after the interruption did not hesitate to use the yellow ball to make snooker, Selby leaked the opportunity after several successful solutions, Yan Bingtao resisted the pressure of the second shot of the game to blast out the first shot of the game over 100 and strongly cleared the table 2-1 to overtake the score.
In the fourth set, Selby gave up the defense to try to attack first but failed to score, Yan Bingtao came up to establish a 40+ lead and the attack was interrupted, while Selby lost the key red ball in the case of the opportunity to reverse the innings, yan Bingtao smiled and accepted the gift to complete the super score 3-1 to continue to lead.
Although Selby returned from rest and won a set back 2-3 through multiple starts, the two began a long-term battle for an hour in the sixth set, and both of them alternated the lead through defense, but unfortunately, Selby's attack was interrupted and turned into defense, and Yan Bingtao seized the opportunity, yan Bingtao came up to score a high-difficulty goal in a row to make a strong score to 4-2.
In the last two sets of the second stage, Yan Bingtao's energy also began to decline, and successive mistakes allowed the experienced Selby to hit multiple times to win back a set 3-4, and in the eighth set, Selby did not give Yan Bingtao the opportunity to directly start the 80+ to enter the second stage with a 4-4 draw.
Throughout the first stage, the two can be described as an endurance competition, from 21:30 in the evening to 01:30 in the morning the next day, Yan Bingtao and Selby staged a bitter battle for nearly four hours, and for both sides, the next duel energy will become the key factor in the outcome of the game.