The closely watched Crucible Snooker World Championship has produced a final four. Eliminated defending champion Selby's Chinese youngster Yan Bingtao, lost 11-13 to Uncle Ma in the quarter-finals, and regrettably stopped in the quarterfinals. 75 Williams, O'Sullivan and Higgins locked up three of the final four, with another ticket to Trump, one of the 80's Five Tigers.
Ding Junhui is also a chinese brother
In this year's World Championships, four Chinese players, Yan Bingtao, Ding Junhui, Zhao Xintong and Lu Haotian, competed. Before the start of the match, except for Lu Haotian, who did not have a ranking champion, the other three were all pinned high hopes on by Chinese fans. Due to Ding Junhui's average state in the past two years, many people are even more optimistic about Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao. It is believed that these two people are expected to make a splash at the World Championships, surpassing Ding Junhui to become a brother of China's snooker. But the actual battle proved that Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong were still too young, and they needed to go through further training if they wanted to surpass Ding Junhui.
Judging from the world championship resume, Ding Junhui is a regular visitor to the world championships, and has never missed the world championship regular match since 2007, even if he came to Crucible in 2016 and this year from the qualifiers. The world championship experience of Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong cannot be compared with Ding Junhui.
Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao
Judging from the results of the World Championships, Ding Junhui's best result at the World Championships was runner-up, that is, he lost to Selby 14-18 in the final of 2016; then reached the final four in 2017, and lost to Master Sai again in the semi-finals 15-17. In addition, Ding Junhui has also entered the quarterfinals and sixteen finals many times. Zhao Xintong's two trips to Crucible were a round trip the year before, and this year it was the round of 16. Yan Bingtao's best result is only to break into the quarterfinals this year. Both were not as eye-catching as Ding Junhui's performance in Crucible.
Judging from the number of ranking champions, Ding Junhui currently holds 14 titles. Although it is slightly inferior to Selby, Robertson and Trump, who are also 80 Tigers, it is still rare among domestic players and leads the way. As of now, Zhao Xintong only has two titles of British Championship and German Masters champion, and Yan Bingtao has only been crowned twice at the Masters and Riga Masters, which is not a small gap with Ding Junhui.
Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong
From the perspective of actual combat performance, Zhao Xintong attacked strong and defended weakly, and defense was a major obvious shortcoming; Yan Bingtao was weak and defensive, and the accuracy of the far platform needed to be improved. In addition, the two youngsters' ball-catching ability is also average. Compared with the three people, on the whole, Ding Junhui's technology is more comprehensive and his comprehensive strength is stronger.
In summary, although Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao have a good upward momentum, the current Chinese brother is still Ding Junhui. Of course, compared with Ding Junhui, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao have an age advantage, young is potential, and young has hope. The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and one generation is stronger than the next. It is believed that the two young generals will definitely succeed Ding Junhui and carry the banner of China's snooker. Let's look forward to it!