On April 26, Beijing time, the quarterfinals of the Snooker World Championships began to compete, and the first stage of the match between China's Yan Bingtao and Mark Williams began. Yan Bingtao fought 2-2 after the first four innings, but then Williams went down four consecutive innings to end the first stage of the game with a 6-2 lead. In the first 8 innings, Williams scored 100 and 4 50+, and Yan Bingtao scored 1 100 and 1 50+.
In the first set, the two sides were caught in a tug-of-war, with Mark Williams winning the first set in a match that took more than 30 minutes. Williams scored a single 61 points in the second set to take a 2-0 lead after the next set. In the 3rd inning, Yan Bingtao scored 102 points to break the 100 performance, and in the 4th set, he continued to blast 85 points with a single shot, and the two sides fought in the first four sets to draw 2-2.
Williams blasted out 60 points in the fifth inning, and after winning the set he took the lead again. In the 6th inning, Williams scored a single shot to break the hundred, and a 106 point gave him a 4-2 lead over Yan Bingtao. Williams, who was hot in the seventh set, scored 72 points to lead Yan Bingtao 5-2 after winning three consecutive sets. Williams again blasted a single 77 points in the 8th inning to win the game in one fell swoop.
In the end, the first stage of the 8-inning match between the two sides ended, and Williams temporarily led Yan Bingtao 6-2. The second phase of the match will take place tomorrow at 2am and the third phase will continue at 9:30pm tomorrow. I hope that Yan Bingtao can adjust his state in time and have a better performance in the back game.