The 2022 Snooker World Championships title list is updated, O'Sullivan is firmly in 1st, Neil Robertson has retreated from 2nd to 3rd, and Yan Bingtao has also slipped, originally in 5th place, but is now surpassed by Higgins. At 17:00 Beijing time on April 26, Yan Bingtao will fight Mark Williams to compete for a ticket for the top 4, and CCTV will broadcast it live.
Yan Bingtao is now the "hope of the whole village", because a total of 4 Chinese people played in the main game, and Lu Haotian, Ding Junhui and Zhao Xintong were out successively. Among them, Lu Haotian and Ding Junhui stopped the first round, while Zhao Xintong fell in the second round, and in the case of being favored, Zhao Xintong lost to Maguire.
Yan Bingtao performed well, and in the second round, he defeated the defending champion Selby 13-10 to win a great victory. In his career, Yan Bingtao reached the top 8 of the World Championship for the first time! At one point, Yan Bingtao was ranked No. 5 on the championship list, but now, he is surpassed by Higgins, who is on the verge of advancing to the top 8.
Of course, for Yan Bingtao, the ranking on the championship list is only a ranking, and if you want to go further or even win the championship, you need to rely on your own efforts. In the quarter-finals, Yan Bingtao's opponent was the experienced Mark Williams, who won the Snooker World Championship three times, in 2000, 2003 and 2018!
For Yan Bingtao, facing the challenge of Mark Williams is no smaller than when he encountered Selby. After all, Mark Williams was also in excellent form, eliminating Page 13-3 in the last round and playing one-sided.
At 17:00 Beijing time on April 26, the first stage of Yan Bingtao vs Mark Williams will start, and there will be a second and third stage of matches after that, the format is still 25 innings and 13 wins, CCTV will broadcast live.
As of now, there are only 12 players left in the Snooker World Championship, and the top-winning hot list is O'Sullivan, Trump, Neil Robertson, Mark Williams, Higgins, Yan Bingtao, Karen Wilson, Lisovsky, Maguire, Bingham, McGill, Andsam.