On April 27, Beijing time, the quarter-finals of the Snooker World Championship will continue, and the third stage of the match between Yan Bingtao and Mark Williams will be contested on this matchday. After the first two stages of the match, the two sides were tied 8-8. The game turned into the final stage of a 9-in-5-win match, facing the three-time champion Williams, can Yan Bingtao continue to move forward in this World Championship?
Yan Bingtao did not perform well in the first stage of the match between the two sides, and he chased down two consecutive sets to a 2-2 draw after the opening 0-2. But then Williams went all-in-one to win four straight sets, giving Williams a 6-2 lead over Yan Bingtao after the first stage. In the first stage, Williams scored 100 and 4 50+, while Yan Bingtao only scored 1 hundred and 1 50+.
After entering the second stage of the competition, Yan Bingtao quickly found his own state. He played 6-1 in the first seven innings of the second period, at one point overtaking Williams 8-7. In the 16th set Williams regained his hand to chase back a set, and the two sides drew the first 16 sets to an 8-8 draw. In the second stage, Yan Bingtao scored 2 strokes of 50+ and 1 stroke of 103 points, completely dominating the second stage of the game.
In this year's World Championships, Yan Bingtao's performance was eye-catching. In the first round, he blasted a 10-50+ and a 2-shot 100 to knock Out Wecklin. Facing the four-time champion Selby of the World Championships in the second round, Yan Bingtao withstood the pressure to eliminate his opponent 13-10, and for the first time in his career, he reached the quarterfinals at the World Championships, becoming the only post-00 player in the quarterfinals of this World Championship.
The third stage of the match will start at 9:30 pm Beijing time on April 27, when CCTV Sports Channel will broadcast the match live. Can Yan Bingtao, who performed well in the second stage, continue to work hard to reach the final four of this World Championship? Let's look forward to it together.