On the evening of April 27, Beijing time, the 2022 World Snooker Championship continued in Sheffield, England. The 8 rounds between the famous mainland player Yan Bingtao and Mark Williams has just ended, Yan Bingtao's state of affairs declined in the second half, losing the 10-8 lead, and finally losing 11-13 to the opponent, regrettably missing the top 4.
Ranked 16th in the world, Yan Bingtao is the best post-00 player in the professional snooker competition. At the beginning of last year, Yan Bingtao, who was not yet 21 years old at the time, defeated Robertson, Bingham and Higgins, three world champions and fierce maguire, to win the Masters championship trophy, one of the three major competitions.
After coming to Crucible this year, Yan Bingtao eliminated Vackering 10-6 in the first round, and then met defending champion Mark Selby in the second round. As we all know, Yan Bingtao is calm and sophisticated in playing, has both skills, and his defensive ability is particularly prominent, which is quite similar to Selby's style. This time, meeting an idol on the top competition stage, Yan Bingtao showed better on-the-spot state and tug-of-war resilience, and finally eliminated Selby 13-10!
Entering the quarter-final stage, Yan Bingtao is the only post-00 in the top 8, and he has also injected some youthful color into the overall older snooker sport - there are four post-70s grandmasters in the top 8, and even the second youngest Lisowski is 9 years older than Xiao Yan!
Yan Bingtao's opponents have changed from the four-time World Championship champion Selby who is the best at defense to the three-time World Championship champion Mark Williams who is the best at attacking - in the first two rounds of this competition, Jin left-handed defeated Michael Matt and Jackson Page 10-3, 13-3 respectively, and the fierce offensive firepower made the juniors miserable and basically became the spectators of the game.
In the first stage of the quarterfinals, although Yan Bingtao had two high-scoring victories, he did not play his own strengths well as a whole, but was pulled up by Jin's left hand. In the fifth to eighth innings, Williams shot four consecutive high scores to hit a 4-0 offensive wave, and kept a clean sheet in three consecutive sets, instantly rewriting the score to 6-2.
In the second stage, Williams' accuracy declined, Yan Bingtao eased up, the offensive end blasted a hundred and two shots 70+, the defensive end and the stalemate situation handling was also significantly improved than the previous eight innings, and finally rebounded against the opponent a wave of 6-2, chasing the total score to 8-8.
Tonight's game, Yan Bingtao took the lead after the seventeenth inning, with a single 62-point offense, once again leading the Golden Left Hand. In the eighteenth set, Yan Bingtao came back again, and he soared the third personal shot of the game to over 100, and the aggregate score was 10-8 to expand the advantage. In the eleventh set, Williams finally regained his long-lost hand, and after an interval of 10 innings, he once again blasted out the winning offensive high score (single shot 135). In the twelfth set, Williams took the initiative to start, the first half established a 40-0 lead, the second half of the two sides fought hard to defend, Yan Bingtao had no offensive opportunities except for a long shot, Williams finally pulled the total score to 10 draws 72-0.
In the twenty-first set, both sides had fluctuations in their hands, Yan Bingtao conceded red balls three times, but Williams also failed to seize the opportunity, Yan Bingtao won 93-34 with the advantage of points obtained in the first half. In the twenty-second set, Yan Bingtao lost the green ball and lost the opportunity to chase points, and Jin chased 11 draws with his left hand. In the twenty-third set, Yan Bingtao felt tight, and Williams took out the match point with a single shot of 66. In the twenty-fourth set, Yan Bingtao scored first but interrupted the attack due to poor positioning, and then fought for the far platform to leave the opponent with a chance - Williams smoothly surrounded the ball, and single shot 78 locked the score to 13-11. Williams will face the winners between Trump and Bingham in the semi-finals– Tert Jr. and second brothers who drew 8-8 in the first sixteen sets.