Former World Championship runner-up Kyren Wilson was in impressive form as he stormed into an 8-1 first-round lead against Welsh veteran Dominic Dale on Tuesday.
Twelfth seed Wilson produced a superb performance with breaks of 52, 75, 123, 96, 50, 77 and 73 to only need two more frames when the match resumes on Wednesday morning.
Dale, 52, is the oldest player at this year’s competition and playing at the Crucible for the first time in 10 years.
He did have one moment to savour though, winning his solitary frame with a superb 120 clearance.
Wilson, a beaten finalist in 2020, will be confident of advancing though with Joe O’Connor, who beat four-time champion Mark Selby, waiting in the last 16.
England’s Jack Lisowski, 17th in the world and who only narrowly missed out on automatically qualifying for the tournament, holds a 5-4 advantage following a high-quality session against 2016 finalist Ding Junhui.
The Chinese player took the first two frames with breaks of 127 and 60, before Lisowski responded with efforts of 71 and 91 to draw level.
The high standard continued after the mid-session interval with Ding hitting a break of 98, only for Lisowski to take the next to make it 3-3.
Another excellent break of 90 from Ding gave him a 4-3 advantage, but Lisowski claimed the next two, aided by runs of 69 and 67, to take the session.
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