Selby dumped out, Bingham survives, Trump storms through at German Masters in Berlin

Maguire needed a big performance having dropped just out of the world's top 16, but it looked like his hopes would be dashed as Selby took a 2-1 lead thanks to breaks of 90 and 87 in the first and third frames.

Maguire kept in, however, responding with three frame-winning breaks of his own as the match progressed to 3-3.

And thereafter it was the Scot who held firm against the Jester from Leicester, making the most of a fluked snooker as he clinched the seventh and eighth frames of the match to earn a quarter-final spot against Graeme Dott.

Judd Trump, playing in the evening session, put in a majestic display to beat China's Zhang Anda 5-1 and make the quarter-finals.

Trump closed out the match with three consecutive centuries - including a 120 which was composed of 15 reds and blacks, the Bristolian failing to record a 147 only as he left himself partially snookered on the yellow and failed to pull off the pot with a serving effort.

"I was confident of making the 147 because I made one on the same table last year," said Trump.

"I just potted the (15th) black slightly too thin and the cue ball ran too far.

"If I can go out and play like that tomorrow I’ve got no worries.”

Martin Gould also enjoyed a huge win, beating Ben Woollaston 5-0, while Graeme Dott beat Barry Hawkins 5-2.

In the pick of the afternoon matches, World champion Stuart Bingham dug deep to come through a tense match 5-2 in the first round of the German Masters in Berlin against Ireland's Fergal O'Brien.

Bingham looked in fine form as he opened up the match with a break of 109 to get ahead, and after claiming a scrappy second frame still looked in control.

O'Brien hit back with breaks of 82 and 113 to level the match, however, and thereafter the encounter turned into a tense battle.

Bingham won the next to eke out a 3-2 lead, then pinched the error-strewn next two frames on the black to progress to the second round.

"I don't know how I've won it to be honest," Bingham told Eurosport after the match.

[WATCH: Snooker LIVE on Eurosport Player]

Next up for the reigning world champion is Ryan Day, who beat Liang Wenbo 5-3 in another close--fought match, going ahead in the match for the first time thanks to a 74 in the seventh frame, then coming through a tense eighth frame to win.

There were two surprise results during Thursday's afternoon session: world number 44 Mark Joyce shocked world number 11 Mark Allen 5-2, while Norway's world number 46 Kurt Maflin took down world number 13 Marco Fu 5-1.

[WATCH: Snooker on Eurosport: TV schedule]