With the Chinese youngster Zhao Xintong 9-13 defeated Maguire regrettably out, the four people shortlisted for this year's Snooker World Championships are only Yan Bingtao, and the new generation of young players after 00 has undoubtedly become the hope of the whole village.
Zhao Xintong is known as China's O'Sullivan for playing reasons, Yan Bingtao is known as China's Selby, Zhao Xintong failed to successfully meet with his master in the quarterfinals, and Yan Bingtao met snooker's defensive master in the top sixteen in advance.
The previous confrontation record between the two sides Yan Bingtao is slightly leading by four wins and three losses, but Selby has not been able to take away the victory in the last three meetings, and can be said to have taken a little advantage in front of his own version.
The reason why the outside world has attracted much attention to this duel is that the style of play between the two has always been controversial, and what kind of defensive and endurance battle the two extremely similar players can bring on the stage of the World Championships has made everyone full of expectations.
In the first stage, the two did not disappoint everyone, and began a defensive competition as soon as they came up, but the young Yan Bingtao did not fall behind in front of the experienced Selby, and even forced Selby to commit consecutive fouls through his own defense many times.
After six innings, Yan Bingtao blasted a shot over 100 to temporarily lead 4-2, but Selby was obviously not so easy to deal with, and after Yan Bingtao slightly missed a little chance, he won two consecutive sets to make the score 4-4 to enter the second stage.
The second stage of the two sides is still a defensive battle, but Yan Bingtao played more open after the defense, many long-term attacks have achieved results, and the fiery state is also a bit difficult for Selby to overcome for a while, Yan Bingtao has won another hundred consecutive three sets to lead 7-4.
However, the tenacious Selby will certainly not give up easily, first blasting over a hundred to chase back a set and then after Yan Bingtao played a single shot of 90+, he once again blasted a large over 100 to chase the score, but fortunately, Yan Bingtao withstood the pressure and won the sixteenth set to enter the third stage 9-7.
In the decisive stage, Selby failed to enter the state in time, and there were successive low-level mistakes in the case of taking the lead, and Yan Bingtao did not hesitate to continuously present difficult goals to achieve a single-set reversal and two consecutive sets to expand the score advantage at 11-7.
Then it was Selby's performance time, first after starting to blast a single shot 80 + one shot to win, followed by a low-level mistake in the twentieth set Of Yan Bingtao came up to blast out a single shot 11 hundred and felt hot again to complete 80 + a wave of three consecutive wins 10-11 to continue to follow the score.
In the twenty-first game, the two fought for nearly an hour and a half without winning or losing, and Selby couldn't resist applying to the referee to go to the toilet, and the two sides also rushed to the bathroom. And the audience at the scene is even more helpless, some people have left the scene early.
Xiaobian until the end of the draft before the two have not yet divided the victory and defeat, because of the real can not eat had to retreat first, there are friends who get up in the morning to see the results of the victory and defeat to inform it. Finally, I would like to say that the great war between Yan Bingtao and Selby will eventually go down in the history of Snooker!