Snooker: Stuart Bingham and Joe Perry looked set for a nailbiting battle to reach the quarter-finals of the World Championship in Sheffield today.
Bingham, who knocked six-time champion Steve Davis out in the first round, resumed this morning with a 5-3 lead only for Perry to win three frames in a row to lead for the first time in the match.
It was a largely scrappy affair, Perry's break of 55 in the 10th frame the highlight, and Bingham was grateful to claim the 12th frame to go into the mid-session interval level at 6-6.
On the other table China's Liang Wenbo, conqueror of Ken Doherty in the first round, led Northern Ireland's Joe Swail 7-4. Liang led 6-2 overnight but Swail took two of the first three frames of the day to reduce his deficit slightly.