Scottish Open: John Higgins beats Jack Lisowski to reach second round

Higgins was beaten 6-5 by Mark King in York after leading 4-2 and 5-4

John Higgins put his surprise UK Championship loss to Mark King behind him to beat Jack Lisowski 4-1 in the Scottish Open first round.

A fluked brown helped Lisowski, ranked 38, take the opener but Higgins, beaten in the final last year by Marco Fu, reeled off four frames to progress.

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Fellow Scots Stephen Maguire, Chris Totten, Scott Donaldson and Ross Vallance also went through.

But Graeme Dott lost 4-2 to Rory McLeod while Fu and Judd Trump won.

Defending champion Fu beat Welshman Duane Jones 4-0 and world number three Trump overcame Robin Hull by the same margin.

Totten defeated Sam Baird 4-1, Robert Carlisle lost 4-2 to Vallance, Donaldson beat Josh Boileau by the same score and Maguire triumphed 4-0 against Alex Borg.

Six Chinese players - Yu De Lu, Fang Xiongman, Zhou Yuelong, Xiao Guodong, Zhang Yong and Li Hang - all won on Monday, while English veteran Mike Dunn, 46, whitewashed Adam Duffy 4-0.

Northern Irishman Gerard Greene, a 4-2 winner over Zhao Xintong, is also through, while Stuart Carrington beat 16-year-old Jackson Page 4-1.

Newly crowned UK champion Ronnie O'Sullivan begins his campaign against Michael Georgiou on Tuesday at 13:00 GMT.