Shaun Murphy
2005 world champion on BBC Two

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People ask me all the time what it's like when we go to China from a snooker perspective - when you see Ding out there, he is revered by everybody. It must be what it's like being a Rolling Stone. He's one of the most recognisable people in the whole country.

He's been an absolute flagbearer for snooker out there and all the players who have followed him dream of being the next Ding. It's an incredible legacy that he's built for himself.

Ding Junhui is hitting through the cue ball well now.

Ominous signs for Zak Surety, who finds himself four frames behind again as his opponent crafts a lovely 73.

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Mark Allen, speaking to BBC Two after a 10-6 first-round win against Fan Zhengyi:

"I'm very happy with that performance.

"It was a bit of a shaky start yesterday and I thought Fan was very good at the start. I was really happy to be 5-4 in front overnight and I played some really good snooker today.

"I stole two frames in a row that I had no real right to win and it made the scoreline look a little flattering at the interval - 9-4 could have easily been 7-6 and then it would have been game on.

"I didn't close it out as clinically as I would have liked but I finished off nicely."

Just as Zak Surety looks like he is about to get a chance to win the seventh frame he runs out of position and plays safe.

Ding Junhui can barely get his fingernails on the table but somehow knocks in a glorious long red on the way to putting himself firmly in control of the frame, which he secures.

With it, the three-time UK Championship winner ensures he will take a lead into Tuesday afternoon's concluding session.

John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two

Mark Allen will be very happy with that, especially after being 3-0 down and on the end of an early barrage.

He turned it round and showed all of his match play. The first four frames this afternoon were very good - two high-scoring visits and two frames that he nicked.

All in all, he's had a good run-out, he'll be happy with the "W" next to his name and he'll look forward to the rest of the tournament.

Mark Allen is into the last 16, where he will face Chris Wakelin.

Allen's wait for victory looked like being extended when an attempted split of the pack of reds went wrong, but he was soon back at the table to score the points he needed to get over the line.

Zak Surety has upped his game and his fighting his way back into this contest. He clears the colours to pinch the sixth frame.

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Fan Zhengyi pulls another one back with a high-quality break of 74.

Mark Allen got in first with 57 before missing a red to the middle.

Credit to Fan Zhengyi, who makes a break of 86 to keep Mark Allen waiting a little bit longer for his first-round victory.

Allen was at the table with a chance to win, but he missed a straight, mid-distance red and Fan capitalised to win his first frame of the day.

Zak Surety gets a frame on the board.

He needed a couple of bites of the cherry and a couple of mistakes from his opponent but he will feel a million times better now.

Mark Allen knocks in a 102 break, his second century of the match, to move to the brink of the second round.

Fan Zhengyi has had opportunities today but the world number eight from Northern Ireland has won all four frames so far in this session and it's difficult to see Allen letting it slip from here.

Zak Surety breaks down on 16 with a red to the left middle and, even when he gets what looks to be a reprieve, only another nine points follow.

He is toiling badly out on snooker's biggest stage as Ding Junhui races to a 4-0 lead, without really having to do that much.

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Mark Allen has started the afternoon session with three successive frames and is surely on course for a place in the second round.

It's another frame that could have gone either way, with the scores close with one red left. but Allen eventually wins the tactical battle to get over the line.

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Ding Junhui is having things all his own way at the moment. Another frame in the bank with a run of 68.

Zak Surety has scored just 22 points across the first three frames.

Ding Junhui collects another frame. Zak Surety has not settled yet.

John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two

That's the difference between the very good players and the top ones, because that's a monster frame he's nicked there.

Fan will realise that you can't be that loose when you're near the end of the frame and you look like you're going to win it, because the top players will do that to you.

He's pinched a frame that he should never have won.

Fan Zhengyi will be kicking himself at losing the 11th frame.

The Chinese qualifier does all the hard work and only needs a red to get over the finishing line but an attempted plant from close range finds the jaws, and Mark Allen clears the table to pinch it.

Allen trailed 3-0 in this match but has won seven of the past eight frames.

Ding Junhui takes the opening frame with a break of 60.

He scored 96 unanswered points in total there, just the start he'd have been looking for.

Zhao Xintong has been speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live after completing a 10-4 win over Jak Jones in the first round earlier on Monday:

"I really played well and I'm very happy. I enjoy this tournament and I enjoy the Crucible. I played four qualifying matches and they were long matches, it gave me some confidence and I believe I can do it again."

When told Neil Robertson said he is one of the favourites to win the tournament:

"I'm so happy he said that. I will try my best."

On 10 Chinese players being part of the main draw and their success at the Crucible so far:

"It's very helpful for Chinese snooker and we as players are very happy about that. Hopefully in the future, we will have a Chinese world champion here and we are trying to do that."