The Snooker Professional League from 2020 to 2021 will continue. On April 18, 2021, Beijing time, the first round of the Snooker World Championship will begin. A total of five Chinese snooker players advanced to the main race in this competition, and the Chinese star Yan Bingtao took the lead in the first round of the competition. Yan Bingtao's opponent in the first round was Martin Gould. He had previously scored three wins and one loss against Martin Gould. Now that the two meet again, Yan Bingtao has an absolute advantage in the match record and the world rankings.
Yan Bingtao fired the first shot of the China Snooker World Championship. In the first half of the game that ended first, the game process between Yan Bingtao and Martin Gould was too slow. Therefore, the game ended temporarily after only eight rounds. Yan Bingtao was overtaken by Gould with a 2-0 lead. Yan Bingtao then tried his best to equalize the score. The two entered the second half of the game 4:4. In the second half of the game. Yan Bingtao lost one game first in the ninth game, and Gould took the lead again. The lagging Yan Bingtao played steadily. In the next five games. Yan Bingtao can be described as a latecomer. He won five games in a row and expanded his lead to 9:5 in one fell swoop. Take the lead to get the match point. Despite the subsequent game Gould will continue to catch up with the score. However, the gap is obvious. It is difficult to stop Yan Bingtao's advancement. In the end, Yan Bingtao advanced to the top 16 and became the first Chinese snooker player to reach the top 16 in this World Championship.
This season's World Championships is Yan Bingtao's third time to compete in the World Championships. Yan Bingtao has participated in the World Championships in 2017 and 2019. And Yan Bingtao's best result in the main event of the World Championships was the top 16. In the first round of the World Championships last year, Yan Bingtao successfully overturned Slater and advanced to the top 16. Reaching the top 16 of the World Championships is also Yan Bingtao's best result in the World Championships. And this season Yan Bingtao is in excellent form, and he likes to win the championship in the Masters. Yan Bingtao also became the first player to win the three championships after zero. It makes Karen Wilson, who has the title of the strongest post-90s, greedy. Karen Elson had previously reached the finals at the Masters and World Championships respectively.Unfortunately, both were runners-up and Yan Bingtao won the Masters championship before Karen Wilson.
Yan Bingtao has already won two championships before. In 2019, he won the Riga Masters and won the 2021 Masters again. Now Yan Bingtao has launched an impact for the third crown of his career. If Yan Bingtao reaches the quarterfinals in the next game, then Yan Bingtao will make history again. Yan Bingtao is also expected to break the deadlock in the World Championships and become the first Chinese snooker player to win the first championship in the World Championships. He is expected to challenge the second championship in the three major tournaments.
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