A good chance for a century for Zhao here.

Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Four

It is currently looking like a walk in the park for Xintong and he has not had to work too hard to get his opportunities. Gary Wilson looked pretty decent in that first frame but the tables have completely turned.

Zhao Xintong, despite facing the cue ball on the top cushion, does well to down a red into right middle and off he goes again.

We're back in action. Gary Wilson has to tighten up and dig in and not let Zhao have easy access to the table.

Zhao needs three frames, Wilson five.

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With the mid-session interval going on, here is a look at how Zhao won his third frame in a row, with his third break of 50 plus.

Zhao Xintong is warming up nicely with breaks of 50, 51 and 54 to reel off three successive frames.

Worryingly for Gary Wilson, the world champion is being let in cheaply following poor safety efforts from the Englishman.

Wilson may be heading straight to the practice table.

Gary Wilson, looking under more pressure, plays a loose safety shot right at the start of frame four and that costs him 38 points. Another poor safety soon after may cost him the frame.

After being punished in the first frame after missing a red, Zhao Xintong is threatening to run away with this now.

That's two frames in a row, with breaks of 50 and 51. The next frame is the last before the mid-session interval and you get the feeling Wilson needs to go in at 2-2 instead of 3-1 down.

This was how Zhao Xintong made it 1-1.

A third half century break in this match as Zhao makes 51 and pots the blue, but then gets unlucky as the cue ball collides with the top red in the pack and the red disappears into the top left pocket for a five-point penalty.

Wilson back at the table staring at a 5-51 deficit.

We're moving at a good pace tonight and after Gary Wilson's break of 76 in frame one, Zhao Xintong responds with a run of 50 in the second.

He takes the frame 71-0 and that makes it one apiece.

It was a great start for Gary Wilson and this is how he won the first frame of the night.

A great start from Gary Wilson as he makes a break of 76 in a very pleasing only six minutes to take the opening frame.

We have already said goodbye to three world champions and the current one finds himself 1-0 down.

Just as in the first attempt of this frame, Zhao gets an 8-0 lead and then misses a red. Can Gary Wilson take advantage this time around?

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Only problem is none of these seven lads can now get out of their seats to go to the toilet or get a drink.

We have had a false start and a re-rack. Zhao Xintong had led 8-0 so may have felt a bit aggrieved. He had missed a red, Gary Wilson then failed with a long pot attempt but with the cue ball stuck in the pack of reds, we go again.

Forget the last five minutes. They never happened, right?

The pair have met five times, with Gary Wilson holding a 4-1 advantage, although all of those meetings have been at least six years ago.

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