As we all know, Chinese teenager Yan Bingtao fought with defending champion Mark Selby for nearly eleven hours in the second round of the Snooker World Championships and finally advanced 13-10 thrillingly, and the super high-quality defensive battle between the two became a topic of discussion among outside fans after the game.
Only 22 years old Yan Bingtao has defeated the powerful Selby four times in a row with his excellent play and excellent psychological quality, and the whole match between the two sides can be described as thrilling, but one of Yan Bingtao's moves in the game was questioned after the game.
The game returned to the eighteenth inning of the two, when Selby temporarily led 52-48 when he put the coffee ball on the side of the bottom bag when defending and the lucky blue ball just blocked the direct goal point that the white ball could hit, Yan Bingtao also repeatedly observed this situation for nearly three minutes.
Just when Yan Bingtao was leaning over to prepare for the attack, he suddenly stood up and indicated to the referee that he wanted to wipe the white ball, which also caused the audience to laugh out loud, of course, the referee finally refused this request, because the slight deviation of the white ball at this time could lead to the goal result of the ball.
In the case of a delicate relationship between the white ball, the obstacle ball and the target ball in the snooker game, the referee has the right to refuse to wipe the white ball This is something that everyone knows, Yan Bingtao's move is also to ease the atmosphere of the tense game, and finally Yan Bingtao accurately scored the coffee ball and achieved a single-game reversal.
But it was this inadvertent move that was blamed by two snooker legends after the game, Jimmy White and McManus bluntly said that Yan Bingtao was "clever" in the game, trying to get the referee to wipe the white ball and cause the position to deviate and profit.
Old White said: In order to ensure the principle of fairness of the game, this is almost an unwritten rule, no player will ask the referee to wipe the white ball at that time, if the referee makes a mistake in the reset, then Yan Bingtao can easily win, although you want to win the game but can not rely on this "little cleverness".
McManus: Yan Bingtao's move obviously cannot be recognized by everyone, fortunately Spencer is an excellent referee, otherwise he may be deceived by him, someone must tell Yan Bingtao that you can't do this, this kind of "trick" can not appear on the field.
The remarks of the two legendary veterans immediately caused dissatisfaction among domestic fans to say that they could not afford to lose, because Yan Bingtao had already said after the game that he was too nervous, and he knew that the referee would not agree to this request, but only to adjust the atmosphere at the scene.
In the face of the strong dissatisfaction of the fans, Manus issued a statement to the outside world urgently afterwards, and formally apologized to Yan Bingtao, saying that Yan Bingtao's move was no problem, and I have to say that Manus this is really a duplicitous approach, if it is not the outside public opinion believes that he will not come forward to apologize.
Objectively speaking, we don't know exactly what mentality Yan Bingtao had at that time to let the referee wipe the white ball, but from the look of Yan Bingtao and the referee at that time, it showed that this was a joke with a lively atmosphere, after all, the audience including Selby was amused at that time. And old White and Manus gave such accusations after Yan Bingtao explained the reasons after the game, which is indeed a bit unkind.