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Seven-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan made a beardown commencement to his last-16 lucifer against Wales' Ryan Day and holds a 5-3 advantage.
The 48-year-old Englishman is connected people for an eighth Crucible title, which would move him clear of Stephen Hendry's people of 7 successes.
Day is aiming to get into nan World Championship quarter-finals for a 4th time, aft losing successful that information successful 2008, 2009 and 2012.
He has played O'Sullivan present before, losing 13-10 having been 9-7 up successful their last-16 necktie successful 2006, pinch Day admitting that nonaccomplishment had hurt.
"This spot gives you tons of awesome memories and tons of scars," said Day connected Wednesday. "That was surely 1 of nan scars. It's not beingness connected your skin, but it is lodged distant location heavy successful your mind."
O'Sullivan, who thrashed 22-year-old Welsh qualifier Jackson Page 10-1 successful nan first round, made breaks of 123 and 84 successful nan opening 2 frames, though world number 18 Day took nan adjacent 2 frames.
Breaks of 83 and 51 helped O'Sullivan spell 4-2 successful front, Day responded pinch a break of 115, but O'Sullivan restored his two-frame advantage pinch a 92 successful nan past framework of nan session.
The lucifer is nan champion of 25 frames, truthful first to 13, and will resume astatine 19:00 BST successful nan evening convention earlier being completed connected Monday from 14:30.
Scotland's Stephen Maguire moved into nan quarter-final acknowledgment to a 13-9 triumph complete 2005 world champion Shaun Murphy.
A fired-up Maguire had built a 10-6 lead connected Saturday.
Murphy had earlier edged 2 frames connected nan achromatic and responded pinch a fist pump, earlier Maguire did likewise, punching nan array and past punching nan aerial arsenic he moved into a beardown advantage going into nan 3rd session.
The brace person been rivals since they were children, pinch Maguire nan starring Scottish younker subordinate and Murphy nan apical English young player.
They made headlines successful a alleged 'Chalkgate' incident astatine nan 2004 Grand Prix erstwhile Maguire forgot his chalk, nan first-round necktie was delayed and he was docked a frame.
Maguire blamed Murphy, who had spoken to nan referee, for being docked a frame, though nan Englishman has ever insisted he was not to blame.
Breaks of 68 and 73 from Maguire helped him triumph 2 of nan opening 3 frames connected Sunday to move 1 distant from victory.
Murphy, nan eighth seed, took nan adjacent two, but Maguire made a superb break of 127 to seal victory.
It intends 11 of nan 16 seeds person been eliminated successful nan opening 2 rounds.
