The 2022 World Snooker Championships has received a lot of attention recently, with Ding Junhui's first round out, the only two young players left in the Chinese snooker army, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, the second round of the two of them is also highly anticipated by domestic fans.
Yan Bingtao's opponent in the round of sixteen is the defending champion Mark Selby, and the first stage of the competition between the two sides began a long and bitter battle, and finally Selby entered the second stage with a 4-4 score with a wonderful performance in the second half.
The showdown between Zhao Xintong and Stephen Maguire surprised many fans, and in the first stage of the two, Zhao Xintong began to make frequent low-level mistakes in the 3-2 lead, and Maguire seized the opportunity to blast out a hundred consecutive wins to temporarily lead 5-3.
In the second stage, Zhao Xintong's state can be said to be extremely bad, and the accuracy of the long platform can be said to be completely absent, even so Zhao Xintong still does not choose to find his hand through defense, but more and more forced to attack this directly leading Maguire to pull the score to 11-5.
After the end of the second stage of the game, many fans in China have said that Zhao Xintong's playing style is no different from Mangfu, knowing that he does not have any long stage feel or choose to force the attack, if you can not adjust in time, then the third stage may lose suspense early.
After the start of the third stage, Zhao Xintong still chose the long platform attack to pick up in the hand compared to the previous two stages, although the next loss of coffee ball but Maguire just started the best state, Zhao Xintong once again started to complete the super score 6-11.
In the eighteenth inning, Maguire's defensive error missed the opportunity, and Zhao Xintong came up and began to score continuously around the black ball and blasted out a single 80+ to win another set. However, Maguire then seized on Zhao Xintong's defensive end of the mistake and directly went on the field to complete the single par 80+ to take the lead at 12-7 to reach the match point.
In the next set, Zhao Xintong withstood the pressure to complete the single shot 67 points in a state of delay, Maguire came up to fight for no results and foul Zhao Xintong 8-12 to save a match point. Then, after Maguire's offensive mistake, he got the phone again and gradually approached the score at 9-12.
Unfortunately, in the twenty-second set, Zhao Xintong lost the key mid-bag powder ball when he had the opportunity to win, and Zhao Xintong did not seize the opportunity to reverse after Maguire completed 50+ on the stage, and finally Maguire won 13-9 to advance to the quarterfinals.
Looking at the whole showdown, it can only be said that Zhao Xintong dug the pit too big before, although the third stage felt back, but the pressure of the difference finally led to a regretful loss, and Zhao Xintong himself was also unable to hide his loss and helplessly bid farewell to the trip of this World Championship.