On April 27, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker World Championships continued.
In a group of duels in the quarter-finals, Yan Bingtao, a mainlander who has just eliminated defending champions Selby, is the only seedling of the current Chinese team at this World Championship, and his opponent Mark Williams is in excellent condition, the first stage of this group of duels played Yan Bingtao 6-2, but in the second stage, Yan Bingtao also played a wave of 6-2 in color, so that the third stage became a 9-set 5-win format competition.
In the first set of the third stage, that is, the seventeenth set, Mark Williams first made a mistake, Yan Bingtao started to score around the more conservative powder ball, and won the round steadily, taking a 9-8 lead. In the 18th set, Williams started with a low-level error, and although yan Bingtao, who was the starter, interrupted the offensive due to a deviation in the position, he still scored a follow-up single shot of 102 points with a meticulous layout, and then the next city.
In the 19th set, Yan Bingtao failed to seize the opportunity of the opponent's consecutive penalties at the beginning of the game, and Williams responded with a single shot of 135 points to win back a set. In the 20th set, Mark Williams showed his skillful bench skills, and after several attacks and defenses, he found scoring opportunities many times, and the score came to 10-10 to enter the third stage of the intermission. Back in the 21st inning, the two sides repeatedly fought in the middle of the innings, Yan Bingtao in a defense, luckily touched the red ball into the bottom pocket, so as to win the game and take the lead again.
In the 22nd set, Mark Williams made a mistake after scoring 40 points in the lead, but Yan Bingtao failed to seize the opportunity, Williams did not let the opportunity slip away, and the score equalized again. At the beginning of the 23rd inning, the two sides staged a wonderful defensive battle, but Mark Williams hit a long table fairy ball, and then single-shot to complete the super score to get the match point, in the 24th inning, Yan Bingtao's long platform attack was deflected again, Williams seized the opportunity, although the white ball behind the position was not ideal, but still with accurate hitting and hot feel, single shot 70 points and completed the super point, 13-11 defeat yan Bingtao to advance to the final four.
From the perspective of the whole game, Yan Bingtao still played his own level and style, but the accuracy of the bench attack is really lacking, giving the opponent a lot of opportunities, playing to the last moment to lose is indeed a pity, but the performance of the entire World Championship is still gratifying, can eliminate the defending champion, and the state of the hot Mark Williams to play difficult to divide, which shows his strength and talent, Yan Bingtao, who is just in his early twenties, still has many opportunities, come on!