On April 26, 2022, the snooker World Championship concluded the last two quarter-final matches, and the final top winner Neil Robertson was killed by Jack Lissowski 12-13 in the case of a 147, and No. 4 seed Judd Trump narrowly defeated Anthony McGill 13-11. At this point, the top 8 of this World Championship were all born, they are Yan Bingtao and Williams, Bingham and Trump in the first half, and Lisovsky and Higgins, Maguire and O'Sullivan in the lower half.
It is worth mentioning that in the top 8 lineup of this World Championship, the post-70s players occupy half of the seats, this proportion is relatively high in the 2020s, which originally belonged to the post-90s era, but the post-90s performed poorly in this World Championship, and after the first round of the 14 post-90s players, only Zhao Xintong, Wilson and other 5 players reached the round of 16, and after the end of the 1/8 final, only Lisovsky was left. On the other hand, the post-70s players, in addition to the "75 three masters" are still strong, Bingham is also respected, in addition, the post-80s players are only Trump and Maguire, the performance of the post-80s players in this World Championship is also relatively bad, Yan Bingtao is the only post-00s player, is the youngest player to impact the top 4.
The next quarter-finals are in the top half, with Yan Bingtao vs. Mark Williams, Stuart Bingham vs. Judd Trump, In the bottom half Jack Lissovsky vs. John Higgins, and Stephen Maguire vs. Ronnie O'Sullivan. Among them, Yan Bingtao maintained a total defeat record against Uncle Ma in the ranking match, this game is not easy to play, Trump maintains an impressive record of 22 wins and 9 losses against Bingham, Higgins maintains a record of 5 wins and 2 losses against the young driver, and O'Sullivan maintains a crushing record of 19 wins and 4 losses against MaGuire, wishing Yan Bingtao the best level, creating bigger surprises, and cheering.