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World Championship: Yan Bingtao through as Liang Wenbo falls to Neil Robertson, Tian Pengfei leads John Higgins
- China loses its first representative in Sheffield, but one advances and another leads a four-time world champion
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China’s Yan Bingtao eased into the second round of snooker’s World Championship on Sunday after defeating England’s Martin Gould 10-6, while another of China’s five-strong force at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre fell by the wayside.
Liang Wenbo was well beaten by former world champion Neil Robertson, losing four frames in a row after the restart to bow out 10-3 against the Australian.
Liang won the final frame of the day on Saturday with a sublime break of 126 to give him hope of completing an unlikely comeback. But it was short-lived as Robertson, who now faces the winner of the match between Jack Lisowski and Ali Carter in round two, reeled off breaks of 100, 110 and 73 to progress.
“It was a good performance. It’s important to play how I want,” Robertson said.
“Liang was one of the tougher ones to draw. But I maintained my levels and I feel really good and really happy.”
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