We're down to 32 in York after a thrilling weekend of snooker at the UK Championships. Mark Selby was the first casualty on Saturday afternoon as the world champion lost his Last 64 clash 6-4 to Ireland's David Morris which now means Mark drops to 3 in the rankings and the 2nd seed is gone from the draw. That evening was when the real drama unfolded though with Barry Hawkins seemingly cruising into the Last 32 at 5-0 against Nigel Bond until the man that's introduced to the arena as having a "license to thrill" produced some thrilling late night drama by winning all of the last 6 frames to beat Hawkins 6-5 in one of the best comebacks this competition has ever seen. Elsewhere things were much easier for Ding Junhui, Judd Trump, Marco Fu and Mark Williams as they all cruised into the third round of the draw. Neil Robertson survived a scare against Kyren Wilson as he came from 5-4 down to beat Wilson 6-5 and make it into the Last 32 while Ricky Walden also came through a decider in his match with Robbie Williams. Finally, last night Ronnie O'Sullivan struggled with his snooker in a 6-3 win against Peter Lines but he did look fine with his ankle walking round the table perfectly fine and not putting his foot on the foot stool between visits to the table, while Shaun Murphy seemed to struggle a little against Robin Hull despite winning 6-3 and he was getting visibly frustrated at times in the match.
Here are all of the Last 64 results in full:
Neil Robertson 6-5 Kyren Wilson
Peter Ebdon 6-1 Kurt Maflin
Robert Milkins 6-0 Marcus Campbell
Graeme Dott 6-4 Anthony Hamilton
Joel Walker 6-3 Tom Ford
Stuart Bingham 6-3 Alfie Burden
Ken Doherty 6-4 Michael White
Ricky Walden 6-5 Robbie Williams
Nigel Bond 6-5 Barry Hawkins
Anthony McGill 6-4 Igor Figueiredo
John Higgins 6-4 Jamie Cope
Matthew Stevens 6-3 Gerard Greene
Matt Selt 6-4 Xiao Guodong
Rory McLeod 6-5 Zhang Anda
Ben Woollaston 6-3 Tony Drago
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-3 Peter Lines
Ding Junhui 6-2 Jimmy White
James Cahill 6-4 Andrew Higginson
Joe Perry 6-1 Mike Dunn
Mark Davis 6-4 Liam Highfield
Fraser Patrick 6-4 Ryan Day
Judd Trump 6-1 Aditya Mehta
Rod Lawler 6-5 Martin Gould
Mark Allen 6-0 Luca Brecel
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Robin Hull
Jack Lisowski 6-4 Liang Wenbo
Marco Fu 6-1 Lu Haotian
Dechawat Poomjaeng 6-3 Michael Holt
Mark Williams 6-0 Jimmy Robertson
Stephen Maguire 6-4 Yu DeLu
David Gilbert 6-2 Mark Joyce
David Morris 6-4 Mark Selby
Plenty of results there going against the odds with a few top seeds exiting the tournament, but will more suffer the same fate in the Last 32? Well lets have a look at the draw and what we can expect in round 3.
Last 32 Draw: (Picks in bold)
Neil Robertson Vs Peter Ebdon
Robert Milkins Vs Graeme Dott
Stuart Bingham Vs Joel Walker
Ricky Walden Vs Ken Doherty
Anthony McGill Vs Nigel Bond
John Higgins Vs Matthew Stevens
Matt Selt Vs Rory McLeod
Ronnie O'Sullivan Vs Ben Woollaston
Ding Junhui Vs James Cahill
Joe Perry Vs Mark Davis
Judd Trump Vs Fraser Patrick
Mark Allen Vs Rod Lawler
Shaun Murphy Vs Jack Lisowski
Marco Fu Vs Dechawat Poomjaeng
Stephen Maguire Vs Mark Williams
David Gilbert Vs David Morris
A thrilling weekend of snooker then and it's certainly set up a brilliant week of snooker now from the Last 32 starting today down to the final on Sunday and I have absolutely no idea at this stage who's going to win this tournament because there are still so many big names left and plenty of potential upsets as well before this week is done. I'll be back at the same time on Wednesday to look ahead to the Last 16.
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