In the early morning of April 24, the Snooker World Championship ended a focus battle, Masters champion Yan Bingtao performed well, in the case of a 9-7 lead in two stages, the whole game blasted 3 shots to break the 1001 90+, the total score was 13-10 to defeat the defending champion Mark Selby, and in the 22nd set to set a record of 87 minutes and 24 seconds in a single set of Crucible, reaching the quarterfinals of the World Championship for the first time in his career. At this point, half of the places in the top 8 of this World Championship have been determined, Williams, Maguire, O'Sullivan and Yan Bingtao have advanced successively, and the two quarter-finals are released early, Yan Bingtao in the upper half will challenge Williams, and O'Sullivan in the lower half will face Maguire.
This is Yan Bingtao's first impact on the World Championships Top 4, can beat Selby in the World Championship long game system, enough to show that Yan Bingtao has the ability to win the World Championship, especially in the offensive and defensive ends of the tension, can attack and defend, this is where most young players can not do, 1/4 final opponent Ma Uncle showed a desperate attack, but objectively speaking, the pressure given by his opponent is also insufficient, I believe That Yan Bingtao can exert enough pressure on Uncle Ma. The two have met 6 times, Yan Bingtao has only won two of them, hoping that Yan Bingtao will continue to be in good shape and dedicate a wonderful duel with Uncle Ma.
This is Maguire's second world championship quarter-finals after 3 years, and is currently the only qualifier to reach the top-8, and his opponent O'Sullivan also showed absolute dominance in the first two rounds, the two opponents Gilbert and Allen are actually not weak, but they lost 5-10, 4-13 respectively, which is enough to see O'Sullivan's desire for the 7th crown. This is the fourth meeting between the two in the World Championships, the first three times were in the first round, Maguire lost all of them, this time can stop O'Sullivan to go further, the latter is only three wins away from the seven world championships. The first leg of the two quarter-finals will start at 17:00 Beijing time on April 26, so let's wait and see.