Snooker Shoot Out 2021 - Mark Selby through to the third round on an action-packed Super Saturday

ByEurosport

Updated 07/02/2021 at 15:36 GMT

The action never stops at the Snooker Shoot Out and there was a riot of big names involved on Super Saturday. In the evening session, Mark Selby and Mark Allen were just two of the big names to progress to the third round. You can watch the 2021 Shoot Out on Eurosport, eurosport.co.uk and the Eurosport app.

Mark Selby

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Mark Allen made it into the third round with a straightforward 82-15 win over Dylan Emery.

Martin Gould, winner of the 2013 Shoot Out, produced a composed break of 58 to run the clock down against Alan McManus, coming back from 23-0 down.

Craig Steadman progressed after beating Jamie Wilson 53-38 with the latter accidentally feathering the white when lining up the brown.

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Joe Perry beat Chris Wakelin 85-34 in a high quality contest.

David Gilbert recovered from 11 points down to beat Peter Devlin 25-11.

Lyu Haotian beat Jordan Brown 23-6 after Brown missed a cut on a black to the bottom left, forcing him to concede.

Elliot Slessor is through after beating fellow Geordie Sam Craigie 22-11 with the latter waving it off when he was left needing at least four pots with time almost up.

Ben Hancorn scraped past Saqib Nesir 31-15. Nasir had a chance with under 30 seconds to go, with red-black-red-black needed to force a tie, but he was unable to add the first black of the combination.

Mark Selby carved out a narrow win in a safety-dominated frame against Barry Pinches, progressing to the third round with a 16-2 victory.

Ryan Day knocked out Ashley Carty 33-16 in an error-strewn contest. Plymouth amateur Haydon Pinhey made an excellent break of 65 to beat Riley Parsons 65-24.

Two-time ranking semi-finalist David Grace beat Kuldesh Johal 46-15.

Barry Hawkins was left laughing as he ran out of time against last season's Shoot Out finalist Zhou Yuelong who won it 55-31.

Sunny Akani fought his way into the third round, coming from 45-16 down to edge past John Astley 48-46

Liam Highfield defeated Connor Benzey 71-24 as the latter conceded needing a snooker with two minutes left.

And in the final match, Shaun Murphy was knocked out by Allan Taylor 38-9 to set up a Super Sunday.

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