Ronnie O’Sullivan v Ryan Day LIVE: World Snooker Championship score and latest updates today

O’Sullivan misses a tough red down the top-cushion rail, leaving it over the pocket for Day to tap in. After two stunning opening frames from O’Sullivan, we’re going to the interval all square.

Day finally runs out of position and is forced to play safe, but he’s almost over the line. He leads the frame 70-0, with 75 points left on the table and O’Sullivan with no option but to play safe.

Day establishes himself in the frame with a confident red and he’s building a potential winning break here. Fifty points on the board already…

Day makes a strange break-off shot which goes crashing into the yellow ball, which saves him from disaster by leaving the cue ball in baulk. Nothing’s left on for O’Sullivan to go at, so a safety exchange begins.

Day does indeed hold it together, and he’s on the board.

O’Sullivan was peerless for two frames and woeful for one. Let’s see what we get in the final frame before the mid-session interval.

This is a chaotic frame: Day misses a black off the spot and O’Sullivan replies with a missed red he would expect to make. Who is going to get a grip on this scrappy battle?

Day leads by 20 points and he’s at the table with a third chance.

Eeesh. Day thwacks a mid-length red well wide of the jaws of the left corner pocket and his break collapses with only 35 points on the board. O’Sullivan comes to the table with the balls nicely spread… but drops in a missed red of his own trying to pot a fine cut.

Day is unexpectedly back at the table, leading 35-16.

Day pots the long-ish red and finally he’s in among the balls, for the first time since missing a simple red in the first frame. Can he build a big score?

Ryan Day really needs a frame on the board before the mid-session interval to stop this momentum, and he begins the third frame well with a powerful long red. A moment later, though, he’s lost control of the cue ball and O’Sullivan is back at the table facing a tricky safety shot from baulk…

O’Sullivan fires the white in off! Four points to Day and the chance to pot from the D.

O’Sullivan falls just short of the century, but plays some stunning exhibition shots on the way, before finally missing a thin cut with a couple of reds left on the table. He’s already two frames ahead and looking supremely strong.