The 2021-2022 world snooker championship continued, the Chinese team performed mixed, China's top seed Zhao Xintong played well in the third stage of the match against "Little Mago" Maguire, but due to the first two stages of the score behind too much, and finally Zhao Xintong lost 9:13 to the opponent, and the upset was out of the quarterfinals. And the "post-00s" young player Yan Bingtao also created a big cold, in the defending champion, now the world's number one Selby competition, Yan Bingtao from beginning to end to grasp the initiative, and finally he defeated Mark Selby 13:10, advanced to the quarterfinals, creating a personal world championship best. In other competitions, title-winning favourite O'Sullivan swept Mark 13-4 in just one set, and world champions Neil Robertson and Trump were in a state of flux, and after the first stage, both of them drew 4-4 with their opponents.
After the end of the first round of the World Championships, only two seeded players of the Chinese team, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong, reached the second round, and the 16th seed and Chinese teenager Yan Bingtao played against Selby, the No. 2 seed of the tournament and now ranked no. 1 in the world. Although Selby is not in good shape this season, but the month before the World Championships "retreat cultivation" still makes his state pick up, coupled with his stable performance at the World Championships, Selby is still one of the favorites to win the world championship, in order to beat the "grinding king" Selby in the World Championships, this is a huge challenge for Yan Bingtao. However, Yan Bingtao against Selby is not inferior, the last three encounters, Yan Bingtao has defeated Selby, sent the opponent "three consecutive defeats", which undoubtedly gave Yan Bingtao more self-confidence, Yan Bingtao is also a well-known "grinding king", known as "Chinese Selby", the two in the first stage of the multi-game game Yan Bingtao used the "Selby way" to defeat Selby, the two sides fought 4:4 draw. In the second stage of the game, Yan Bingtao once again grinded his opponent to a temperless position, and after playing a 5:3 point difference, he took a 9:7 lead.
At the beginning of the third stage of the game, Yan Bingtao once again used the "grinding control playing method" to take the lead, the 17th game Yan Bingtao narrowly won 61:47 to expand the score in the situation of both sides, the 18th game, the two sides were in a bitter battle, no one wanted to easily show the opportunity, Yan Bingtao won 63:52 in the grinding game, and after winning two consecutive sets, Yan Bingtao led 11:7 for four sets. Selby, who was behind, then let go, and in the 19th inning, Selby blasted 86 points and kept a clean sheet, in the 20th set Selby single-handedly scored 117 points and then took away the victory, and in the 21st set Selby played another 88 points to win, and after winning three consecutive sets in one go, Selby chased the score to 10:11. The key 22nd inning, Yan Bingtao was again in the situation of anxiety to grind out the opportunity, he started to attack many times after a narrow victory of 63:49, the big score of 12:10 lead and get the match point, the 23rd game, Yan Bingtao was full of firepower, single shot 112 points after winning, the total score of 13:10 upset the world number one, defending champion Selby out of the game.
Four consecutive victories over Selby, which in recent years O'Sullivan, Higgins and other top masters have not been able to do, only Yan Bingtao has done, the secret of his victory is to "treat others with their own way". Although Yan Bingtao's playing style is not pleasing enough, the style is similar to Selby and has been criticized, but Yan Bingtao's performance is indeed very stable, yan Bingtao is not all defensive in this game, he also played a few single shots to break the hundred, it can be said that Yan Bingtao can attack and defend and grind, but these techniques still have room for improvement, once they reach new heights, Yan Bingtao is expected to get more championships. After reaching the quarterfinals, Yan Bingtao will compete with Mark Williams for the top four, and if he can play his own characteristics, Yan Bingtao is very hopeful to create history further.
Unlike Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong chose to attack when he had the opportunity, which also made him pay a terrible price in the game, in the match with qualifier MaGuire, Zhao Xintong lost three consecutive sets after losing three consecutive sets to 3:5 after taking the lead in the first stage of the game, and zhao Xintong in the second stage of the game was anxious to equalize and chose to attack recklessly, Maguire laughed many times and led Zhao Xintong 11:5 to end the second stage of the game. In the third stage of the game, Zhao Xintong played proactively, and the offensive state was obviously brave, and even chased two sets of imminent scores, After Maguire got the match point, Zhao Xintong won two consecutive rounds of the near score, unfortunately, in the last game, Zhao Xintong's unsuccessful defense gave Maguire a chance, and finally Maguire laughed at the victory, and the total score was 13:9 to knock out China's top seed Zhao Xintong. So far, there have been four seats in the quarterfinals of this World Championship: O'Sullivan, Mark Williams, Maguire and China's Yan Bingtao.