China News Service Client, April 28th. In the early morning of the 28th Beijing time, the 12th match day of the 2022 World Snooker Championship ended the second period of competition.
Chinese player Yan Bingtao ended up losing 11:13 to No. 8 seed Mark Williams with a 10-8 lead and missed the top 4 of the World Championships.
The 2022 World Snooker Championships will be held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England from April 16th to May 2nd.
The event is the final ranking event of the World Snooker Tour WST in the 2021/22 season.
This is the first confrontation between Yan Bingtao and Mark Williams at the World Championships.
The two sides have played against each other 6 times before, and Yan Bingtao has 2 wins and 4 losses at the disadvantage.
The last time the two met was in the first round of the Masters in January, when the "Golden Left Hand" won 6-4.
In the previous two stages of the game, Yan Bingtao staged a Jedi counterattack when the score was 2:6 behind, and tied the score at 8:8 to end the second stage.
After the start of the third stage, Yan Bingtao took the lead in winning 2 consecutive games, leading by a big score of 10:8.
However, after that, Mark Williams scored 135 points in a single shot and pulled 2 games in a row, making the big score 10:10.
In the 21st game, Yan Bingtao won another game with 93:34, leading again with a big score of 11:10.
Since then, Mark Williams began to master the rhythm of the game and pulled 3 games in a row, and won the reversal with a big score of 13:11, reaching the World Championship semi-finals for the 7th time in his career.
So far, all the Chinese players participating in this World Championships are out of the competition.
After the game, Yan Bingtao said: "It was a very close game. I was nervous because I was so close to my first Crucible semi-final. With an 11-10 lead, I would have had a chance to put The game was 12:10, but I thought too much and missed the cue ball." (End)