With the "Chinese quasi-god" Zhao Xintong following in the footsteps of China's brother Ding Junhui, Masters champion Yan Bingtao has thus become "the hope of the whole village".
Obviously, the tactics adopted by Master Yan Bingtao were very successful: waiting for the opportunity to move, "winning the battle and running". Unlike Ding and Zhao, who are in a hurry to get a shot in each round, the result is that they want to be fast.
Yan Bingtao really played every shot seriously, treated every ball carefully, slowed down and did not panic, and in the 2nd, 4th and 6th innings, in the case of the opponent playing a single 54 points, 50 points, 54 points to stage a rare single-game reversal, you know in the peak of Selby, single-shot reversal opponent is his best skill.
In the first six innings, Selby played a 4-50+ high score and still trailed Yan Bingtao 2-4 on aggregate, who only played a single shot of 104 points in three innings to break the hundred, and after two sets, Selby struggled to pull the score to a 4-4 draw.
At the beginning of the second stage, Yan Bingtao continued to adopt the previous strategy and blasted out his second shot of the game to break the hundred, winning three consecutive sets to extend the score to 7-4, during which Time Master Sai only scored a pitiful 14 points.
The camera shows Selby's expression lonely and helpless.
Although Selby blasted a single shot 130+ in the 12th inning to chase the score to 5-7, Yan Bingtao quickly returned the color and countered the single shot 90+ to pull the score 8-5 again.
However, the good times did not last long, yan Bingtao in the subsequent rush to give Selby a profit, successively played a single 64 points, 131 points to narrow the score to 7-8.
But in the 16th set, Yan Bingtao grabbed Selby's sticker and made a mistake to end the second stage of the game with a total score of 9-7.
Yan Bingtao only needs to sprint further in the last stage, and Selby will have a hard time turning over.
But it's worth being wary of Selby's "three-plate axe": the first phase is behind, the second stage is attached, and the third stage is counter-offensive.
The final phase between the two sides will continue at 2:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 24.