The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
The temperature in the Crucible will rise a few degrees tonight as ALEX HIGGINS (5) takes the stage for the first time in this year's Championship. NEAL FOULDS has the unenviable task of playing the People's Champion' in his first appearance in Sheffield.
The popular young Canadian, KIRK STEVENS (7), completes his first round match on the other side of snooker's wall. DAVID VINE has all the information and introduces the most important frames.