The 4 world champions will be in the semi-finals! China's post-00s youngsters lost 11-13, and Yan Bingtao missed the top 4. The quarter-finals of the 2022 Snooker World Championships have all ended, with China's post-00s youngster Yan Bingtao losing 11-13 to Mark Williams, Trump beating Bingham 13-8, Higgins narrowly winning 13-12 against Sowski and O'Sullivan 13-5 against Maguire. With Yan Bingtao out, the Chinese team's best record at this World Championship is the top 8.
The 22-year-old Yan Bingtao has performed more generally this season, and the world ranking has once fallen out of the top 16, but before the start of the World Championships, Yan Bingtao returned to the top 16 and reached the World Championship with the 16th seed. In the first round, Yan Bingtao defeated Wackerlin 10-6, and in the second round, Yan Bingtao met the defending champion Selby, because the two played similarly, and were known for their defense, so this game directly turned into a tug-of-war, and finally Yan Bingtao won 13-10 and advanced to the top 8. In the quarter-finals, Yan Bingtao played against three-time World Champion Mark Williams, in the first two rounds of the game, Williams defeated Markle Matt and Jackson Page 10-3 and 13-3 respectively, which shows that Williams is in a very good state now, especially in the offensive end to show strong firepower, his duel with Yan Bingtao, which is called a contradictory battle, Yan Bingtao, who is known for his defense, is against Williams, who is full of firepower.
In the first stage, Williams occupied the initiative on the field, winning 4 consecutive sets in 2-2, thus leading 6-2 on aggregate to enter the second stage, fortunately, Yan Bingtao found his form in time, and in the second stage, he blasted a hundred and two 70+, playing a wave of 6-2, chasing the total score to 8-8. In the third stage, Yan Bingtao took the lead in attacking, winning the seventeenth set with a single score of 62 points, leading 9-8 on aggregate. In the eighteenth inning, Williams scored 29 points and made a mistake, Yan Bingtao scored 8 points to turn into defense, Williams failed to seize the opportunity, Yan Bingtao once again played a single 102 points, to win the set 110-29. In the nineteenth inning, Yan Bingtao missed an opportunity when defending, and Williams directly blasted a single shot 135 points to clear the table. This article is original by Xiao Lizi, please do not copy or port. In the twentieth set, Williams won 72-0 with multiple starts, pulling the total score to a 10-10 draw.
In the twenty-first set, both had some mistakes, and Yan Bingtao found his touch at the crucial moment and won the set 93-34, leading again at 11-10 on aggregate. In the 22nd inning, Yan Bingtao conceded a green ball, and Williams came on to equalize 69-10. In the twenty-third set, Williams scored a single 66 to win. In the twenty-fourth set, Yan Bingtao scored only 8 points after starting, williams directly blasted a single shot of 78 points to lock in the win, won 3 consecutive sets, won 13-11 on aggregate, and advanced to the round of 4 of the World Championship for the seventh time in his career. The semi-finals will be played off by four world champions, with Mark Williams against Trump and O'Sullivan against Higgins.