On April 25, 2022, the second round of the Snooker World Championship is coming to an end, the quarterfinals are about to be released, there are still four seats to be determined, and the eight players have completed two stages of the game, which is Higgins 11-5 Nopon. Sankam, Trump 10-6 McGill, Lisovsky 9-7 Robertson, Karen. Wilson 8-8 Bingham, Higgins and Trump qualified, with the other two games in suspense.
Two quarter-final matches are currently confirmed, namely O'Sullivan and Maguire, Yan Bingtao and Mark. Williams, Yan Bingtao defeated defending champion Selby, becoming the first post-00 player to reach the quarterfinals of the World Championship, the two experienced a long battle, and finally Yan Bingtao became the ultimate winner with a stable play, coupled with high-quality defense, winning four consecutive Selby this season.
However, in the 18th round of the game, Yan Bingtao's approach produced some controversy, when he attacked the coffee ball in the right bottom pocket, after thinking for a while, he asked the referee to wipe the mother ball, the result was rejected, and then Yan Bingtao also seized the opportunity to score a key ball to win this round, although the World Taiwan Federation did not clearly stipulate, but everyone usually did not do so, and the referee could not agree.
At that time, the situation was more special, if the referee's reset was deviated, it was very favorable for Yan Bingtao, as the commentator Jimmy. White and McManus questioned that Yan Bingtao had ulterior motives, Jimmy. White pointed out that it was wrong to win the game by playing clever on the Crucible stage, and McManus stressed that such an approach was disliked by everyone and it was impossible to support him.
In this regard, Selby believes that there was indeed something special about that position at that time, and if the referee's reset was not accurate, the difficulty of attacking would be much reduced, but Yan Bingtao should not be this kind of thinking, because everyone knows that the situation at that time to apply to the referee will definitely be rejected.
Yan Bingtao responded after the game, he explained that he chose to let the referee clean up the white ball, mainly because the mentality was very nervous, hoping to properly adjust the atmosphere, let himself be more relaxed, but also knew that the referee would not agree, just wanted to make a small joke with him, ease the tension, in addition, Yan Bingtao also mentioned the next game against Mark. Williams will go all out to fight for the opponent and strive for another good result.
Jimmy. White has won the world championship runner-up six times, McManus reached the world championship final four, retired after losing to Browning last year, both are commentators, McManus publicly apologized, said that after reflection, looking back at the game at that time, his own statement was completely wrong, Yan Bingtao's choice was no problem, and he made a wrong judgment at the time, which was really not supposed to be.