Chinanews client, Beijing, April 24th. In the early morning of the 24th Beijing time, in the 1/8 finals of the 2022 World Snooker Championships, the No. 16 seed and Chinese player Yan Bingtao defeated the defending champion Mark Selby 13:10. , advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Championships for the first time.
It's a tough fight.
Technical statistics show that as the defending champion of the tournament, Selby's total goals and total points are higher than Yan Bingtao, but the latter relied on patience to seize opportunities and won the final victory.
In the first two stages, Yan Bingtao led 9:7.
In the third stage, Yan Bingtao won two games first, and then Selby chased three games in a row.
At the decisive moment, Yan Bingtao withstood the pressure and finally defeated the powerful enemy as he wished.
In the game, the 22nd game between the two sides took 1 hour, 27 minutes and 24 seconds, and the net game time was 1 hour, 25 minutes and 22 seconds, which was the longest single game in the history of the World Championships.
The previous record happened in the 2019 Luka-Gary-Wilson matchup, with a single game that lasted more than 79 minutes.
Yan Bingtao is the only Chinese player left in the World Championships, and he will face Mark Williams in the quarter-finals.
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