The 2021-2022 snooker World Championship ended the 12th matchday competition, China's "only seedling" Yan Bingtao performed quite well in the third stage of the game, helplessly made mistakes in some key ball handling, was "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams seized the opportunity, and finally lost to the opponent with an aggregate score of 11:13, and was eliminated miserably, so far the Chinese team has completed all the matches of this year's World Championships, failed to reach the final four further, Yan Bingtao and the first world championship final four of his career. In another match, top seeds O'Sullivan and Maguire played only two sets in the third stage of the match before the early closing of the gold, O'Sullivan did not give the opponent any chance in the third stage of the game, he won two consecutive sets after eliminating the "dark horse" Maguire 13:5 on aggregate, strong promotion to the final four.
Chinese youngster Yan Bingtao is the only player from China in the quarterfinals of this year's World Championships, and the only player from the non-British Isles, so he has high hopes. In the third round of the competition, he and Mark Williams narrowly met to compete for the final four, Yan Bingtao was unanimously optimistic that he was expected to continue to move forward because he eliminated the defending champion Selby in the second round, but objectively speaking, Yan Bingtao's comprehensive strength was not as good as Mark Williams, and yan Bingtao was also in the inferior position before the confrontation record, but Yan Bingtao was in good shape recently, and he had the opportunity to compete with Mark Williams. In the first stage of the game, Yan Bingtao drew 2-2 with Mark Williams and lost four consecutive sets to fall behind his opponent 2:6. Fortunately, in the second stage of the game, Yan Bingtao rose up to catch up, and he won four consecutive sets to surpass the score when he was behind 4:7, and finally fought with his opponent to end the first two stages of the game at 8:8.
At the beginning of the third stage of the game, Yan Bingtao entered the state very quickly, continuing the fiery feel of the second stage of the game Yan Bingtao won two consecutive games, in the 17th game Yan Bingtao single shot 62 points and then went to the next city, the big score was 9:8 to lead, the 18th way Yan Bingtao single shot out 102 points and then went to the next city at 110:18, and the big score of 10:8 led to see the dawn of victory. In the 19th game Mark Williams stopped the loss in time, single shot 135 points to pull back a set, chasing the score to 9:10, the 20th way Mark Williams repeatedly attacked to win another set 72:0, the two sides fought 10:10 and then returned to the same running line.
In the 21st game, Yan Bingtao won the game again with a 93:34 attack, and in the 22nd game Mark Williams also won 69:10 with multiple offensive opportunities to equalize the score again. In the 23rd game Mark Williams scored 66 points and won, the big score was 12:11 and won the match point, and in the 24th game Mark Williams scored 75 points and won 78:8, defeating Yan Bingtao at 13:11 on aggregate to advance to the final four. Yan Bingtao lost three consecutive sets in the final moments of the game, passing by the world championship final four.
With the "only seedling" Yan Bingtao being eliminated, the Chinese legion suffered a "total annihilation" in this World Championship, and the young yan Bingtao had the opportunity not to grasp it, and finally lost to the three-time World Championship champion Mark Williams, missing the final four. A total of four Members of the Chinese Legion in this World Championship have entered the main round of the World Championship, Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian were eliminated in the first round of the game, and the second round of the game was unexpectedly defeated by Zhao Xintong, who had high hopes, and maguire stopped in the round of 16, only Yan Bingtao broke through two levels in a row to advance to the quarterfinals, unfortunately Yan Bingtao failed to reach the top four further.
With Yan Bingtao missing out on the Final Four, Chinese players have failed to reach the Final Four of the World Championships for five consecutive years, and the last time a Chinese player appeared in the semi-finals of the World Championships was in the 2017 World Championships, when Ding Junhui lost to Selby after reaching the final four, and the Chinese team in recent World Championships has not been able to complete the breakthrough. In fact, the performance of the Chinese team in the World Championships has not been good, which also shows that the gap between Chinese players and the world's top snooker masters is still very large, we can only hope that Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong and some young players will make breakthroughs as soon as possible and create good results in the World Championships.