Snooker celebrities angrily criticized China's post-00s young players, and did whatever it took to win! Yan Bingtao responded. In the second round of the 2022 Snooker World Championships, China's post-00s young player Yan Bingtao went through a hard battle, defeating the defending champion Selby 13-10 to advance to the top 8 of the World Championships for the first time in his career. However, Yan Bingtao's promotion to the top 8 still caused some controversy, and some snooker celebrities angrily criticized Yan Bingtao for playing a little clever and doing whatever it takes to win.
The point of contention of this game appeared in the 18th inning, when Yan Bingtao led Selby 52-48, only the color ball was left on the table, Yan Bingtao found that the blue ball was somewhat blocking the offensive line when preparing to hit the coffee ball, in this case, Yan Bingtao made a variety of attempts, first with the pole aimed, and then also around the table, looking for the angle of attack, and finally Yan Bingtao made a request to the referee, hoping that the referee could wipe the mother ball, in the face of Yan Bingtao's request, the referee directly refused, Then Yan Bingtao smiled, chose to attack boldly, scored a coffee ball, and won the round. This article is original by Xiao Lizi, please do not copy or port. From the perspective of rules, Yan Bingtao asked the referee to wipe the white ball was not a violation, and the referee did not have any problems in rejecting Yan Bingtao's request, but Jimmy White, who was the commentator, McNamus criticized Yan Bingtao, believing that Yan Bingtao was clever.
Jimmy White said that Yan Bingtao was playing a little clever, playing a small trick, too much, the referee could not agree to his request, although Yan Bingtao wanted to win the game, but even so he could not do it, other snooker players would not do it. McManus said that he did not know what Yan Bingtao thought at that time, but everyone definitely did not like to see this scene, and the opponent would certainly not like it, and believed that most of the players would not choose to do so. Judging from the performance of Jimmy White and McManus, they are very dissatisfied with Yan Bingtao's behavior of asking the referee to wipe the white ball, and believe that Yan Bingtao will stop at nothing to win, but from the rule point of view, Yan Bingtao's request is not in violation, of course, the referee also has the right to refuse.
In the face of outside questions, Yan Bingtao also quickly responded, first he said that he was too nervous at the time, and then in order to ease the atmosphere on the field, he chose to make a joke with the referee. Judging from the situation at that time, if Yan Bingtao really wanted the referee to wipe the white ball, he should make a request at the first time, rather than choosing to make a request to the referee after a long time. In addition, Selby also believes that there is nothing wrong with Yan Bingtao's request to the referee, and it was normal at that time.