At present, the World Championship, the most important event of the year, is in full swing. For Chinese fans, with Yan Bingtao's outstanding performance, there is another reason to continue watching the game. After all, after defeating the world's top master Selby, China's post-00s youngster has become the favorite to win the world championship. And can he become the first Chinese player to win the World Championship? In fact, judging from his big fight with Selby, there is indeed a great possibility. Yan Bingtao before the game was full of confidence, and after the game, Yan Bingtao became understated, which is a kind of old cheng that does not match his age, and it is also a kind of stability. Selby was obviously impressed by Yan Bingtao, and used 7 words to describe Yan Bingtao after the game.
This World Championship, although it is directly shortlisted as a seeded player, is a regular competition. But in fact, Yan Bingtao almost started from the qualifiers, after all, his world ranking was around 16 at that time. Fortunately, however, in the end, he went straight to the main game. But it is clear that although he played the World Championship as a seeded player, Yan Bingtao was not among the popular candidates to win the championship. He even ranked behind two other Chinese players, Ding Junhui and Zhao Xintong, on the top 10 favourites, who were, of course, the only player in the top ten who needed to start from the qualifiers.
Although it is not a favorite, Yan Bingtao has turned himself into a favorite to win the championship with his wonderful performance. After reaching the round of 16, his opponent became the world's number one and the world's top player Selby, who won the championship. Selby can be said to be an opponent that no professional snooker player wants to meet, top strength, excellent defense, and grinding tactics that can make opponents collapse. Naturally, Yan Bingtao was not optimistic before the game, and many people believed that Selby could easily beat Yan Bingtao in a long-term game such as the World Championships.
However, others think so, but Yan Bingtao does not think so. Although he was looked down on before the game, he wanted to raise his momentum. Therefore, in an interview with the media before the game, Yan Bingtao was very confident that although Selby is a very strong player, she is not afraid of him and can't wait to play with him. In this way, I believe that many players absolutely dare not say this when facing Selby. But Yan Bingtao said so, after all, he was confident. In the last three matches between the two, Selby has been defeated by Yan Bingtao without exception. It is precisely because of this confidence that Yan Bingtao will be so confident.
The progress of the game also confirms Yan Bingtao's statement, although Selby let the opponent collapse in front of other players, but in front of Yan Bingtao, the first to collapse was Selby. In terms of game style, Yan Bingtao can be said to have restrained Selby, and Bing Cong even played a record game of 85 minutes. It can be said that Selby really can't do much with this player who is known as the strongest post-00 in the world. At 13:10, in this competition of competing and grinding skills, Yan Bingtao smiled to the end and became the only Chinese player to advance to the top 8.
After the game, Yan Bingtao did not show particular excitement about winning and advancing, which was completely different from his domineering declaration before the game. Yan Bingtao's response was somewhat understated, as if the victory was in full swing. In his super-long showdown with Selby in the 22nd inning, Yan Bingtao described Selby this way: "At that time, he was a little stressed and nervous, and gave me a chance to relax. When talking about how he has become a big favorite to win the championship, Yan Bingtao is even more indifferent, directly saying: Maybe, who knows? If I'm in a state like my last innings, I'm going to win.
Selby, on the other hand, was already impressed after losing to Yan Bingtao four times in a row. When he talked about Yan Bingtao after the game, he directly used 7 words to describe Yan Bingtao. He said: "Yan Bingtao is a great all-round player. "Great all-rounder, I have to say that these 7 words came out of Selby's mouth, and the evaluation really carried a lot of weight. It can be seen that today's Yan Bingtao does have the strength to become the world's top master, and we also hope that Yan Bingtao can play well in the next competition and finally win the world championship.