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Second-round matches are best of 25 frames
Afternoon session LIVE Table One – Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-3 Pang Junxu
Table Two LIVE: Luca Brecel 7-1 Ding Junhui
Evening sesssion 19:00: Table One – Si Jiahui 5-3 Ben Woollaston
Table Two – Judd Trump 5-3 Shaun Murphy
Morning session – RESULT: Lei Peifan 10-13 Zhao Xintong
Phil Cartwright and Frank Keogh
O'Sullivan 6-4 Pang
Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Two
Any player that's here, given chances and some breathing space, can start to look dangerous.
You always have to keep your opponent under it and Ronnie has let Pang off the hook there.
It was a tough blue [that O'Sullivan missed] but it's the sort of shot you'd expect him to get.
O'Sullivan 6-4 Pang
Pang Junxu needed a quick start after losing the first session 6-2 and, with a little bit of help from his opponent, he's got it.
He's taken the first two frames of the session against Ronnie O'Sullivan.
A reminder that 13 frames is the target for victory in the second round. Frames 9-16 will be played in this session, with a possible nine to be played in Monday's concluding session.
O'Sullivan 6-3 Pang
BBC Two
Both players have had two chances now in frame 10. Scores are level with five reds remaining and all in decent positions.
Coverage of this match is now live on BBC Two.
Brecel 8-1 Ding
He may not have been as quickfire as Saturday, when his performance brought a standing ovation, but Luca Brecel proves deadly again when given the chance.
The Belgian knocks in a perfect double en route to the ninth frame. He's 8-1 ahead and Ding Junhui already looks like a fighter at the end of a 12-round bout. He's struggling.
O'Sullivan 6-3 Pang
Pang Junxu pounces on a loose break-off by Ronnie O'Sullivan in frame 10, knocking in a long red to get another contribution going.
The break ends on 19 when Pang finds the near jaw with a red to the middle.
O'Sullivan 6-3 Pang, Brecel 7-1 Ding
Michael Emons
BBC Sport at the Crucible Theatre
It is a glorious day in Sheffield so if you're not able to watch the snooker inside, then what better than sitting in the sun in a deckchair watching it on a big screen with a drink in your hand?
There are worse Sundays.
Brecel 7-1 Ding
You could say Luca Brecel, the 2023 world champion, had gone under the radar before this tournament.
But the Belgian jetted into Sheffield on a private plane on Saturday, arrived at the Crucible 25 minutes before play and delivered a masterclass as he went 7-1 ahead agaist Ding Junhui in the second round.
That display was described as the best one-session Crucible performance EVER by six-time world champion Steve Davis.
Brecel's engine is not running quite so hot today. The ninth frame is already the longest of the match and a fair way to go yet, although he is among the balls.
O'Sullivan 6-3 Pang
Pang Junxu navigates the final hurdle of what becomes a frame-winning visit by playing a delicate cannon to split the two remaining reds.
The 25-year-old from China wins the opening frame of the session with a break of 87 and reduces his deficit to three.
O'Sullivan 6-2 Pang
Pang Junxu, the world number 27, gets his first real chance of frame nine and has all of the remaining reds in pottable positions as he moves into the lead.
There's a bit of a nervy moment as a red trickles towards the middle pocket after Pang pots the black, but it stops just short.
O'Sullivan 6-2 Pang
Pang Junxu tries for a long red into the corner but misses it by a little way. The red runs up and down the table and leaves Ronnie O'Sullivan an easy starter to the left middle.
O'Sullivan creates a few more loose reds from the blue and this is a good chance to make a fast start – although the cue ball is not quite on a string early in the break.
In fact, he has to play safe on 23.
O'Sullivan 6-2 Pang, Brecel 7-1 DingMichael Emons
BBC Sport at the Crucible Theatre
As expected, it is a full house at the Crucible and if you have got a ticket for this session then you're in for a treat.
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Pang Junxu on table one and Luca Brecel against Ding Junhui on table two.
Will the two Chinese players make superb fightbacks and get themselves back into it?
O'Sullivan 6-2 Pang
Stephen Hendry
Seven-time world champion on BBC iPlayer
It's the easy things that let you down and that's what let Pang down, especially in the first four frames. If you do the easy stuff well, you've got a chance.
BBC iPlayer
MC Rob Walker has introduced the four players to the Crucible Theatre crowd and the action will be under way shortly.
There are two tables in play at this stage of the World Championship – you can watch dedicated coverage of both matches on the BBC iPlayer or via the "Watch and listen" tab at the top of this page.
Coverage on BBC Two starts at 15:00 BST.
Snooker's fabled "Class of 92" is still going strong, with two of its three most famous graduates having already booked their places in the World Championship quarter-finals.
Mark Williams, 50, will face 49-year-old John Higgins in the next round. Williams came through a tough test against Hossein Vafaei, while Higgins proved once again why he is absolute granite on a snooker table by winning a deciding frame against Xiao Guodong.
After his win, Higgins told the BBC: "It was different maybe 20-odd years ago when we were really big rivals – now we walk into the practice room and we give each other a nod as if to say: 'How are we still here competing with everybody?'
"It's incredible, and obviously you throw Ronnie into the mix as well – three special players."
Will Ronnie O'Sullivan, also aged 49, join them in the last eight?
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Ronnie O'Sullivan was in superb form to complete his first-round victory over Ali Carter earlier this week. He could not quite match that display on Saturday, but 'The Rocket' still leads Pang Junxu 6-2 and is a strong favourite to reach the quarter-finals.
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O'Sullivan 6-2 Pang
Ronnie O'Sullivan holds a commanding lead after Saturday's first session against Chinese qualifier Pang Junxu.
The seven-time champion won the first four frames and ended 6-2 in front.
Pang had his chances, but was punished for his misses. It is a lesson he will need to have learned overnight, otherwise his hopes of a first Crucible quarter-final could be over fairly quickly.
As for O'Sullivan, he'll hope to be as close as possible to the winning post of 13 frames before Monday evening's conclusion.
Brecel 7-1 Ding
Performance of the World Championship so far? Luca Brecel was in sensational form in the first session of his second-round match against Ding Junhui.
Ding made a superb 141 break in the first frame but managed only 15 more points in the next seven as the 2023 world champion stormed into a 7-1 lead.
Brecel was simply brilliant, knocking in two centuries and four more breaks of 50 or more. No wonder Ding looked pretty non-plussed…
Murphy 3-5 TrumpMichael Emons
BBC Sport at the Crucible Theatre
World number one Judd Trump took a 5-3 lead in his World Championship last-16 tie with fellow former world champion Shaun Murphy, but narrowly missed a chance to move closer to winning a £100,000 bonus.
Trump, 35, fought back from 2-0 and 3-2 down, winning the last three frames of the session, but, when on 98 in frame eight, missed a pot on the yellow that would have given him a century break.
He has made 98 centuries this season and is the only player who could get to one hundred tons this term, something that would earn him a £100,000 prize.
Trump will have another eight frames to play later on Sunday as the match resumes at 19:00 BST, before the final session on Monday from 13:00 BST, in the best-of-25 match.
Only two players have made a hundred century breaks in one campaign – Neil Robertson in 2013-14 with 103 and Trump himself with 102 in 2019-20.
On the other table, Zhao Xintong completed victory against Lei Peifan to set up a quarter-final with fellow qualifier Chris Wakelin.
It's day nine at the 2025 World Snooker Championship and in Sunday's afternoon session we will be watching two of the game's great entertainers.
Ronnie O'Sullivan and Luca Brecel had built handsome leads by the end of the first session of their respective second-round matches – can either produce a repeat today and earn themselves a day off before a Crucible quarter-final?
Or will Chinese duo Pang Junxu and Ding Junhui find a response?
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