Selby Takes Commanding Lead Over Jones

Chris Wakelin, nan 13th seed, made it 12 retired of 12 seeded players to advance, sealing a 10-6 triumph complete 20-year-old English qualifer Liam Pullen.

Wakelin had led 5-4 overnight but Pullen, nan world number 86 who battled done 4 qualifying rounds to qualify, made it 5-5 - only for Wakelin to triumph 5 frames successful a row.

"I'm gutted for Liam arsenic he is simply a really bully friend of excavation - we believe a batch and he is an unthinkable player," said 34-year-old Wakelin.

"A fewer years agone we first practiced together and he stuffed maine and I thought 'what a talent'. It's a shame he didn't afloat show what he is tin of but he did really good and made a bully relationship of himself.

"I'm really proud that he has been present for nan first clip and each azygous personification successful that arena wanted him to win, maine included. But I'm present to triumph and sometimes you person to beryllium ruthless.

"I watched nan tie and I didn't want to tie Stan [Moody] aliases Liam arsenic they are my friends and I want them to win."

Pullen, who mislaid his World Snooker Tour spot past May, past regained it a fewer weeks later astatine Q School, said he loved his first Crucible match.

"I really enjoyed each moment," said Pullen. "I felt astatine times I held my ain and I thought it was a very tight 10-6. I loved it. You person sewage to person nosy and I felt adjacent to doing thing but it didn't rather click."

In nan day session, O'Sullivan will beryllium looking for a quick decorativeness arsenic he leads 7-2 against different debutant, China's He Guoqiang, while Si Jiahui originates his lucifer pinch Iran's Hossein Vafaei.