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Mark Allen leads Scott Donaldson 5-4 after the primary session of their first-round match on the World Snooker Championship on the Crucible Theatre.
The gamers had been tied at 2-2 by the mid-session interval and shared the following two frames earlier than a break of 107 noticed Allen go forward for the primary time.
Donaldson drew degree however a run of 109 in the following noticed Allen go into Monday night time’s second session one body up.
Also on Monday, Anthony McGill beat qualifier Liam Highfield 10-7.
The Scot will play the winner of the match between England’s Judd Trump and Iranian Hossein Vafaei.
The winner of Allen v Donaldson, in the meantime, will face world primary Ronnie O’Sullivan.
A break of 65 noticed Allen clinch the opening body of the encounter however Scotland’s Donaldson took the following two, a break of 78 serving to him set up a 2-1 benefit.
Donaldson regarded to have prolonged his lead as he compiled a 60 in the following however a 61 clearance from the Northern Irishman levelled the competition.
Breaks of 55 and 68 by Donaldson made it 3-2 to the world-ranked 49 participant however a forty five helped see quantity 15 seed Allen over the road in the following.
Those two centuries in the ultimate two frames edged Allen forward, however his opponent stays effectively in competition to make the second spherical for the primary time in solely his second look on the occasion in Sheffield.
Allen’s finest World Championship efficiency was a semi-final look in 2009 and he has additionally reached the quarter-finals 3 times, most lately in 2018.
Last yr the 36-year-old exited on the second-round stage, having been overwhelmed in the primary spherical in 2019 and 2020.
