Duo set record for slow play

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Playing for a place in the quarter-finals of the Betfred.com World Championship, their second frame became the longest ever played at the Sheffield theatre, which has hosted the tournament since 1977.

When Maguire finally potted the black to win it 70-56, the clock showed they had taken one hour, 14 minutes and 58 seconds to sink all the balls. They became bogged down in safety play on the green ball, and eventually eclipsed the previous record which was set by Peter Ebdon and Graeme Dott in the 2006 final.

Ebdon and Dott took one hour, 14 minutes and eight seconds to complete frame 27 on that occasion.

After levelling up, it took the Scottish cueman less than 18 minutes to grab the third frame as he went ahead for the first time in the match at 2-1. Maguire fell behind in the eighth frame but a clinching break of 33 ensured the session finished level, and they will finish on Monday.

On the other table, Mark Selby reeled off four frames in a row to move 6-2 ahead against Graeme Dott and take a giant stride towards the Betfred.com World Championship quarter-finals.

The Leicester player had been tied at 2-2 with the 2006 champion at the mid-session interval but fired in breaks of 72, 52 and 104 to take control of the best-of-25-frames match.

Selby had won the day's opener with a run of 52, but between that and the 81 break Dott made in the fourth frame there had been some patchy play.

When the players returned from their short break, the fifth frame was also scrappy and the highest break was just 15 from Selby.

The 25-year-old began to find his potting prowess though and won the next frame in one visit. Dott again struggled in the seventh frame, and when Selby produced the first century of the match in the next to close the session the outlook appeared bleak for the Scot.