The 2022 World Snooker Championship Sixteen Strongman Yan Bingtao and Selby finally divided the winner and loser after a long and bitter battle, yan Bingtao won 13-10 to reach the quarterfinals of the World Championship for the first time in his career.
Although Yan Bingtao became the final winner, it has to be said that the two worked together to stage a snooker most "grinding" battle, and in the third stage, the two sides could not bear to urinate and applied to the referee to go to the toilet.
The first phase 4-4 took a total of three and a half hours
The two launched a defensive battle in the first stage, fortunately, Yan Bingtao was not at a disadvantage, first of all, he exploded over 100 to establish a 4-2 lead, and then Selby began to exert force to end with a single shot 80+ as a 4-4 draw between the two.
The second phase 9-7 takes three hours in total
With the same running line of the score two sides came to the second stage, Yan Bingtao in this stage not only did not fall behind the feeling of defending the wind and hot hand but also played Selby a surprise, bombed over a hundred to open the score advantage 7-4.
However, Selby, who returned to his senses, began to launch a counterattack, firing two consecutive shots of more than 100 to chase the score, but fortunately, Yan Bingtao stabilized the situation in time through a 90+ to temporarily lead 9-7 into the decisive stage.
The third stage 13-10 takes a total of three hours and fifty minutes
The decisive stage is also the most difficult stage, the two sides began to look for opportunities through defense due to the decline in accuracy, especially in the twenty-second set of the two men once fought for an hour and a half, during which Selby was the first to ask the referee to go to the toilet.
After returning from the toilet, Selby conceded the key blue ball, Yan Bingtao withstood the pressure to complete the super point to reach the match point 12-10 and did not give Selby a chance to blast a single shot over 13-10 in the last set to completely end the game.
Objectively speaking, although the duel between the two sides was slow, the defensive quality was indeed high enough to be recorded in the history of snooker, and Yan Bingtao also set a record of four consecutive defeats to Selby, and reached the quarterfinals of the World Championship for the first time in his career.
As the defending champion, Selby fell under the style of play he was most familiar with, not knowing whether the exhaustion of so much energy and the final loss of the game would aggravate his depression. Finally, congratulations again to Yan Bingtao and also bless Mark Selby.