The 2021-2022 season of the snooker World Championship is in full swing, the Chinese legion as a whole is not playing well, four people participated in the first round of the main tournament on the two out, the second round of the competition was placed on the high hopes of Zhao Xintong also regrettably lost out, only the "00 generation" young player Yan Bingtao alone advanced to the quarterfinals, creating a personal career world championship best, and this is also the best result of the Chinese team in the last four world championships, but unfortunately he lost to world champion Mark Williams in the quarterfinals Even so, it can be said that Yan Bingtao is the best performing player in China at this World Championship. Yan Bingtao is a very powerful young general who has emerged in China's snooker in recent years, born in 2000 and is currently only 22 years old, although his achievements cannot be compared with Ding Junhui of the same age, but he is currently one of the top masters among his peers in the field of snooker.
Yan Bingtao, a young player from Zibo, Shandong Province, China, became famous very early, reaching the main tournament as early as the age of 14, because he won the IBSF World Amateur Snooker Championship, he qualified for the World Snooker Pro For two years, but he was suspended from participating in the professional competition due to his young age. In 2016, Yan Bingtao officially transferred to the professional snooker field, and the next year Yan Bingtao ushered in a major breakthrough in his career, he reached the final four of the snooker International Championship and the final of the Northern Ireland Open, becoming the youngest ranking finalist in snooker history, unfortunately he did not win the championship further, and lost to world champion Mark Williams in one round.
In 2019, Yan Bingtao defeated a number of famous players to win the Riga Open, and after Ding Junhui, Fu Jiajun and Liang Wenbo, the fourth Chinese player to win the snooker ranking competition. After that, Yan Bingtao repeatedly reached the quarter-finals and final four of the ranking tournament, and also reached the final of the Players' Championship and the German Masters, and in early 2021, Yan Bingtao passed the master's tournament to reach the final, in which he defeated Higgins to win the championship, and was the first "post-00s" player to win the "three major competitions".
Although Yan Bingtao's performance this season is not as good as Zhao Xintong, who has won the British Championship and the German Masters championship consecutively, in terms of the results of his career so far, Yan Bingtao's overall performance is more prominent than that of Zhao Xintong. Yan Bingtao's playing style is similar to Selby, who is currently ranked first in the world, and the style of the two is relatively "utilitarian", so Yan Bingtao has not been criticized, and he is called the new generation of "grinding king". But then again, competitive sports are inherently based on winning and losing, and snooker's charm lies not only in offense, but also in high-quality defense and snooker. In the currently competitive field of snooker, technical comprehensiveness is king, attack alone is certainly not enough, without high-quality defense and ball ability is difficult to achieve good results. Yan Bingtao is called "China Selby", this title can be said to be a very high evaluation, to know that Selby has won four world championships so far, ranking champions are more than 20, Yan Bingtao career if he can achieve such achievements as Selby, he will definitely be The first person in China Snooker.
With the former "one brother" Ding Junhui gradually declining, China's snooker currently lacks leaders, although the number of people playing snooker professional matches is not much, but there are not many top masters, Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong, Fan Zhengyi are the first young players to win the ranking championship, they are expected to achieve more brilliant achievements in their careers. From the current situation, Yan Bingtao, whose playing style is relatively stable and relatively comprehensive in technology, is expected to become the new leader of China's snooker, and although Zhao Xintong, who has high hopes, has fierce offensive firepower, his prospects are also optimistic about "Rocket" O'Sullivan, but from his performance in this year's World Championships, it is difficult to go further in major games.
In contrast, although Yan Bingtao's playing style is less ornamental, it is conducive to achieving better athletic performance. After losing three consecutive games to Mark Williams in the final moments of the World Championship Quarterfinals, hendry, the "Emperor of Billiards", who was the commentator, praised the "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams and did not forget to give Yan Bingtao a high evaluation, believing that he would have every chance to win the world championship in the future, and would get this snooker highest achievement before Zhao Xintong.