With Ronnie O'Sullivan's 13-5 victory over Stephen Maguire, the 2022 World Championships also took the lead in producing the first semi-finalist, with the remaining six players, Trump, Higgins, Mark Williams, Bingham, Yan Bingtao and Lissowski, competing for the only three semi-final tickets remaining in the future.
Of course, the highly anticipated duel is Yan Bingtao's duel, as the "only seedling" of the Chinese snooker army, whether Yan Bingtao can continue to create his career world championship best has also become the focus of domestic fans.
Yan Bingtao's opponent in the quarterfinals is Mark Williams, the two sides have a slight advantage in the previous record of ma wei, the most recent meeting was this season's masters when Ma Wei won a thrilling victory, this match is also known as the "grinding and accuracy" of the showdown.
In the round of sixteen, Yan Bingtao and Selby's nearly eleven-hour defensive battle became the focus of outside public opinion after the game, and whether Yan Bingtao would continue the last round of play to deal with Ma Wei was also expected, and Ma Wei's energy also became the key to the outcome of the game.
Stage 1 Yan Bingtao 2-6 Mark Williams
Yan Bingtao did not continue to oppress the opponent on the defensive end as he did against Selby in the first stage, but instead entered the rhythm of Ma Wei and frequently attacked some strange difficult balls, which was best for Ma Wei, who was good at attacking, but won a total of 347 points in the 6-8 set with a clean sheet Yan Bingtao temporarily led 6-2.
Stage II Yan Bingtao 8-8 Mark Williams
After the summary of the first stage, Yan Bingtao began to strengthen his defense in the second stage, and the offensive rhythm was also deliberately slowed down and no longer entered the rhythm of Ma Wei, through a bitter battle Yan Bingtao played a wave of 6-1 performance, Ma Wei struggled to win in the sixteenth set after the two sides entered the decisive stage with an 8-8 score.
Stage III Yan Bingtao 11-13 Mark Williams
Returning from the decisive stage, Ma Wei took the lead in attacking but lost the key ball in two consecutive sets Yan Bingtao did not hesitate to blast out 60+ and single shot over 100 consecutive sets to establish a 10-8 lead. Ma Wei also did not want to show weakness in return for a shot over 100, and also won two consecutive sets to equalize 10-10.
Then the two won another set of scores to 11-11, and yan Bingtao made a high-quality defense in the crucial twenty-third set, but Ma Wei came up and directly soared and completed the super score to reach the match point first. In the 24th inning, Yan Bingtao had a chance to save a match point, but he made a mistake when attacking changtai, and Ma Wei completed the super point for the second time to advance to 13-11.
This game is also an interesting scene in the round of sixteen, the two are caught in the fourteenth innings of the second stage, and the audience at the scene shouts even more when Yan Bingtao hits the ball: Yan, trouble you hurry, I want to go to the toilet! Although Ma Wei came up and resolved the embarrassment with a humorous move, he still did not hold back the urine and left the scene to go to the toilet.
Yan Bingtao's defeat also announced that the Chinese snooker army team in this World Championship was all out, although Yan Bingtao's playing style was not recognized by most fans, but in any case, he played his own characteristics in this World Championship and almost became the third player in China to reach the semi-finals.
Congratulations to Mark Williams and I wish Yan Bingtao a better and better career.