'Nervous' Yan Bingtao said controversial decision to ask for white ball to be cleaned was a joke to ease tension
Yan Bingtao has said he chose to ask the referee to clean the white at a key juncture in his World Championship match with Mark Selby as a joke in a bid to lighten the mood. The 2021 Masters champion was 10-7 ahead in a match he went on to win when he was left with a fiendish shot. Ad/> It was not clear whether the cue ball would pass the blue on the way to the brown that was sat over the pocket, and he agonised over the shot.
