Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
There should be plenty of potting this morning as two of the game's most fluent performers are playing their first-round matches.
Kirk Stevens (seeded 5) finishes his first-round match with Dean Reynolds , and was expected to be the first
Canadian through to the second round.
Willie Thorne (11) starts his campaign this year against Scotland's champion Stephen Hendry.
DAVID ICKE makes the introductions from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.