World Shoot-Out: Second Half of Round One

Just like yesterday, today's afternoon session saw the remaining first round matches with all the upsets and top performances. First up was World number one Neil Robertson as he took on Barry Pinches. Robertson showed his class with a break of 81 to make a century score, winning 106-15.

Barry Hawkins was fighting back against Peter Lines until a crucial foul that allowed Lines to win 65-24. The first shock of the afternoon came in the form of Shaun Murphy as he tumbled out to Rory McLeod. There was less than a minute remaining with McLeod still three behind but the underdog managed to pinch it and show Murphy the door.

A century break of 106 saw Alfie Burden beat Matthew Selt with the first whitewash of day's play. Joe Perry rolled back the years to break the century scoreline with a top break of 71, he overcame Ricky Walden 130-0.

The highly fancied Judd Trump was almost shown the door against Dave Harold. Harold was in control until he lost track of the time and the shot clock forced an error. This left Trump to win 52-31. Graeme Dott joined fellow veterans into the second round with a 99-16 victory over Matthew Couch.

It does seem that this tournament is surprisingly suiting the veterans as Ken Doherty also progressed with an 81-1 victory over Jamie Cope. Adrian Gunnell became the first player of the tournament to overturn a deficit of thirty points. He was 30-0 behind against David Morris but Gunnell fought back to win 85-30.

Rod Lawler also produced a somewhat surprise in beating Gerard Greene. Greene should have won it when he came back from 36-0 down but he missed an easy red at 38-36 to allow Lawler to win 55-38. Mike Dunn also beat Matthew Stevens 67-36 to progress into the last 32.

In one of the lesser games, Stuart Pettman just edged out Belgian Bjorn Hanneveer. Hanneveer managed to fluke his way to a winning chance but missed a red to allow Pettman to win 41-35. Mark Davis beat Joe Swail in one of the less fluent games 49-6.

The Jester from Leicester Mark Selby also managed to progress into the next round by seeing off Andy Hicks 44-34. At the age of just nineteen, Scot Anthony McGill had a chance at glory against Anthony Hamilton. But Hamilton managed to win 70-31. The final first round match saw Stuart Bingham to come back form 31-0 to beat Ian McCulloch 46-31.