Recently, China's 00 backstage ball young player Yan Bingtao and the British snooker veteran Selby competition for the top 8 places, the opponent is very strong, in Yan Bingtao did not descend to the world to participate in the British Under 15 Snow World Championship, and won the championship, after officially entering the professional snooker world to participate in major events and won gold medals many times, it can be seen that Selby's event experience is extremely rich, and Yan Bingtao is not afraid of facing such a strong opponent, in the previous event against 7 times 4-3 results almost beat each other, From this, it can be seen that Yan Bingtao is even slightly better than Selby.
The two players play mainly defensively, and it is precisely because the similarity between the two players is too high, an unprecedented war of attrition was launched in defense, at the beginning of the schedule, the two players were deadlocked, the fight came and went, just after the start of the 9th set, the opponent Selby made consecutive mistakes, the obvious decline in state allowed Yan Bingtao to seize this rare opportunity to successfully open the score to 11-7, in the case of four points behind, the British snooker veteran Selby did not appear a little panic, and pulled the score back to 11-10, It is worthy of the world champion to face such a large point difference and can easily recover.
Just in the 22nd set, both sides realized that this would be the key to determining whether to win or not, if Selby chased a point to successfully tie the score, so the psychological pressure on Yan Bingtao was undoubtedly huge, and the two sides launched a tug-of-war for 88 minutes, Yan Bingtao resisted the pressure to win this sentence with a score of 63 to 49, which was also the longest innings in history. Yan Bingtao, who stabilized his mentality, crushed Selby with 112 points in the match point game and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals. Both sides of the game had world-class standards, which brought such a wonderful match to the audience.
In an interview after the game, Yan Bingtao said: Today's game process is very difficult, just in the 22nd round is very hard, I and the opponent understand that this round of victory is particularly important, both sides are under a lot of pressure psychologically, just in the process Selby made a series of mistakes, I also seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to win this key point.
At the same time, Zhao Xintong lost to Maguire 7-13 in the second round of the snooker Championship, stopped the pace of entering the top 8, and said after the game that he had a lot of problems in the first two stages, lost a lot of easy balls that should not be lost, which gave the opponent the opportunity to win his own, Maguire is worthy of being a veteran of the snooker arena, and the first two sets brought me a lot of psychological pressure. Zhao Xintong has a very clear direction for the aspects that he needs to improve in the future, and strengthens the training of the short board, so he fights again at the Snooker World Championship and wins the championship!
China's four snooker players are now only Yan Bingtao alone, and then Yan Bingtao's next opponent is williams, known as the "golden left hand", will also face unprecedented challenges, Yan Bingtao as a post-00 can play such a result in the World Championships is already very rare, even if he failed to win the championship, this is also a good journey for him, which is undoubtedly a great help for future growth, in the next game to win is also very large, but as for whether he can win the championship? Netizens can express their views.