Swail cuts deficit

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Swail trailed Chinese debutant Liang Wenbo 6-2 overnight but won five of the eight frames on Monday morning to trail 9-7 going into the final session.

The 38-year-old should have been in even better shape but missed the black off its spot in the 13th frame.

That put Liang, conqueror of 1997 champion Ken Doherty in the first round, 8-5 in front but Swail regained his composure to win two of the last three frames with breaks of 71 and 92 to give himself a fighting chance of progressing to a last-eight showdown with either Ronnie O'Sullivan or Mark Williams.

On the other table, Joe Perry won six of the eight frames to turn a 5-3 overnight deficit into a 9-7 lead over Stuart Bingham.

In a see-saw session, Perry won the first three frames to take the lead for the first time in the match at 6-5, before Bingham - who beat Steve Davis in the first round - won the next two to lead 7-6.

Perry, 33, a quarter-finalist back in 2004, then reeled off the final three of the session with breaks of 78 and 82.