World Snooker Championship 2022 - Yan Bingtao produces battling display to beat Mark Selby in record-breaking match

Yan Bingtao produced Mark Selby-type snooker to beat Mark Selby 13-10 and book his place in the quarter-finals of the World Championship. It was a war of attrition, well suited to the demands of Selby, but he met his match in a player whose game is very similar to his own. Ad/> Yan won all but one of the long frames, including the longest frame in Crucible history at 85 minutes and 22 seconds, to send the defending champion out of the tournament.

World Championship'You don't do that in snooker' — White not impressed as Yan wanted white cleaned on tough shot10 HOURS AGO It has been a tough season for Selby with his well-documented mental health issues, but he showed enough that he can get his career back on track following a summer off. For Yan, he will need to regroup following this epic win as the in-form Mark Williams lies in wait in the quarter-finals. Selby had an excellent chance to make a flying start, but returned to his chair with steam coming from his ears after missing a simple, straight pink.

There was noise from the other table as he got down on the shot, but that is not new to Selby and the miss was inexplicable. The pain was exacerbated as Yan cleared to the pink to extend his lead. The 18th frame had a Selby feel to it, with it extremely scrappy and boiling down to a safety battle.

Surprisingly, it was Selby who blinked and coughed up an error on the brown. It appeared at first glance as if he had got away with the mistake, as it did not seem Yan had a path to the brown past the blue. He took three minutes to line it up, causing controversy along the way by asking to have the white cleaned, and eventually knocked it in.