Ronnie O'Sullivan breezes through, lets spectator take final shot

ByEurosport

Updated 19/10/2017 at 17:25 GMT

Ronnie O'Sullivan eased past Zhang Yong 4-1 in under an hour to secure his passage into the fourth round of the English Open - an encounter which ended in comical scenes as an invader played the final shot.

O'Sullivan continued his fine form in Barnsley as he took the opening three frames in rapid succession.

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The latter two included back-to-back centuries as O'Sullivan racked up over 300 points without reply.

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Zhang got on the board in the fourth frame as he took advantage of a lucky fluke and an O'Sullivan miss when he looked set to clean up.

Zhang had another chance in the fifth but he missed a long red and O'Sullivan took control, knocking in this third century of the game.

There were remarkable scenes at the end of the match as a woman from the crowd got past security and onto the table.

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O'Sullivan responded in good spirit, allowing the woman to have a go at potting the last black, which she missed on two occasions.

"I didn’t know what she was doing first. But she said to me I’m just having a jog," said O'Sullivan. "I said to her 'well go on then have a jog then'. And you might as well have a shot while you’re at it'. I really wanted her to pot it."

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O'Sullivan's opponent in the next round could be John Higgins, should the Scot overcome Robert Wilkins.

Meanwhile, three-time world champion Mark Selby crashed out of the English Open after losing 4-1 to China's Xiao Guodong.

The world number one was all-square at 1-1 before Guodong, ranked 39, clinched the next three frames to advance to the last 16.

Elsewhere, Judd Trump prevailed 4-1 over Matthew Stevens, Shaun Murphy squeezed past Liam Highfield 4-3, and Neil Robertson overcame Jimmy Robertson 4-2.

In the other early matches there were a couple of shocks as Jack Lisowski knocked out Mark Williams whilst Stuart Bingham was upset by Hossein Vafaei.

English Open Round Three Results

Xiao Guodong 4-1 Mark Selby

John Higgins 4-3 Robert Milkins

James Wattana 4-2 Yuan Sijun

Judd Trump 4-1 Matthew Stevens

Shaun Murphy 4-3 Liam Highfield

Neil Robertson 4-2 Jimmy Robertson

Yan Bingtao 4-0 Ben Woollaston

Michael White 4-0 Ben Wollaston

Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 Zhang Yong

Hossein Vafaei 4-3 Stuart Bingham

Anthony McGill 4-3 Akani Songsermsawad

Alexander Ursenbacher 4-2 Stuart Carrington

Aditya Mehta 4-1 Chen Zifan

Kyren Wilson 4-1 Thor Chuan Leong

Andrew Higginson 4-1 Hammad Miah

Jack Lisowski 4-2 Mark Williams

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