Allen and Robertson progress in British Open

Mark Allen and Neil Robertson person progressed to nan 3rd information of nan British Open astatine nan Centaur successful Cheltenham.

Allen, from Northern Ireland, ran retired a 4-1 victor complete Aaron Hill from nan Republic of Ireland while Australian Robertson saw disconnected Scotland's Chris Totten by nan aforesaid scoreline connected Tuesday afternoon.

Fresh from winning nan English Open connected Sunday, Robertson moved 2 frames successful beforehand pinch breaks of 100 and 99, earlier Totten replied pinch a tally of 79 to trim his arrears.

Robertson responded pinch an 86 and a 53 to get complete nan statement and proceed his revival aft a difficult mates of years.

Allen book-ended his lucifer pinch centuries, opening pinch a 102 break and adding a 56 successful nan adjacent to found a two-frame advantage.

The world number 3 recovered from a 50-point shortage to declare framework 3 and though Hill came retired connected apical successful a scrappy fourth, it proved only a impermanent reprieve arsenic Allen past knocked successful a 101 to unafraid victory.

Tuesday evening's match-ups see world number 1 Judd Trump's brushwood pinch 2022 British Open champion Ryan Day.

Trump has amassed 999 profession hundreds of years and will go only nan 3rd subordinate to scope 1000 if he compiles a ton break against nan Welshman.

Ronnie O'Sullivan reached nan landmark successful 2019 and John Higgins equalled nan feat during his 4-3 conclusion by Allen successful nan English Open past week.

The tie for nan British Open is an unfastened random 1 pinch nary seeding, pinch nan victor of nan Trump-Day necktie drawn to look either Mark Davis aliases Xiao Guodong successful information three.

Allen will return connected either Hammad Miah aliases Ben Mertens astatine nan aforesaid stage, while Robertson will play Rory Thor, conqueror of Mark Williams, aliases Mark Joyce.