China News Service, Beijing, April 20th. The 2022 Snooker World Championships ended the fourth day of competition on the 20th, Beijing time. Chinese players were happy and worried-Yan Bingtao won 10:6 and advanced to the top 16, and will be in second place. Round to challenge defending champion Selby; another Chinese player Lu Haotian lost to Bingham 5:10 and stopped in the first round.

　　The first round of the World Championships is a 10-best-of-19 game, which is divided into two stages.

Yan Bingtao's first-round opponent is 30-year-old England's Chris Wakelin.

　　In the first stage of the match, which started on the evening of the 19th, Beijing time, Yan Bingtao and his opponent fought very closely. The total score was from 1:1 to 4:4. In the end, Yan Bingtao won the ninth game with a single-shot break of 100. The total score 5:4 lead to end the first stage.

　　In the second stage of the competition, which started in the early morning of the 20th, Beijing time, Yan Bingtao, who was superior in both ranking and strength, did not give his opponent a chance, and successfully advanced with 10:6, becoming the second person after Zhao Xintong to advance to the main competition of this World Championship 16 Strong Chinese players.

　　This is also Yan Bingtao's promotion to the top 16 in three consecutive World Championships.

In the second round (1/8 finals), Yan Bingtao will talk to defending champion Selby.

Although the ranking, fame and qualifications are far inferior to this regular player in the world rankings, but as the first "post-00" player to win the ranking championship, Yan Bingtao also has enough confidence.

At this year's German Masters, Yan Bingtao beat Selby 5:4.

He has three times in the last three clashes against the world champion quadruple.

　　Yan Bingtao said after the game that "I can't wait to play a 25-game 13-win game with him (Selby)."

Yan Bingtao said that Selby's situation is very strong, and he needs to be as good as Selby on the defensive end.

"A lot of people say I play like him (Selby) and hopefully it's a great game. I'm going to enjoy it."

　　The first-round opponent of Lu Haotian, who broke through the qualifying round, was the 2015 World Championship champion and 46-year-old England veteran Bingham.

At the beginning of this campaign, the 24-year-old Lu Haotian showed the young man's dynamism. After leading 1:0 in the first game, he fought his opponent 2:2 in the first four games.

However, with the deepening of the competition, the advantage of Bingham, who has better experience and strength, became more and more obvious. After ending the first stage with a 6:3 lead, he finally won 10:5 and entered the next round.

　　So far, among the 4 Chinese players who participated in the main competition of this World Championship, 3 have finished the first round of the competition. Among them, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who have passed through the main competition as seed players, have all successfully advanced, and Lu Haotian unfortunately became the first to be eliminated.

The closely watched Chinese billiard leader Ding Junhui will make an appearance on the fifth day of the tournament against fifth seed Karen Wilson, known as the "strongest post-90s generation".

　　After the first four days of the game, 11 top 16 players have been produced in this World Snooker Championship. Except for the two world championship champions Hawkins and Murphy, 9 seeded players successfully advanced.

Defending champion Selby, "Rocket" O'Sullivan, "Golden Left Hand" Williams, "Melbourne Machine" Robertson, etc. have all joined the top 16.

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