Hawkins puts Selby out

Perhaps the most predictable Betfred.com World Championship first-round defeat for a world number one arrived when Mark Selby lost 10-3 to Dartford's Barry Hawkins.

Selby, from Leicester, came to Sheffield with little practice behind him after suffering a neck problem which caused him to pull out of the China Open last month.

Selby said: "I was trying my best out there but there were certain shots I couldn't physically play. I didn't have the strength and the power. I'm happy that I managed to play because 10 days ago I was looking at pulling out."

Ding Junhui's hopes of becoming China's first world champion this year were dashed after he relinquished a 9-6 lead to lose 10-9 against Wales' Ryan Day.

Ding accused Crucible fans of disrupting his concentration, although it appeared the player who reached last year's semi-finals only had himself to blame.

Ding said: "I don't think I played well. I don't think the table's right. I don't think the fans are right. All rubbish. Rubbish fans. I was concentrating on the game and they kept shouting out. How can they do that?"

World number 35 Day, who will take on Mark Allen's conqueror Cao Yupeng in the second round, was inspired by thoughts of his daughters, Francesca and Lauren, as he made a match-winning pressure clearance to the pink of 64.

"I was concentrating on breathing properly and I was thinking about winning it," Day said.

"From 9-6 down the inspiration I used was my daughters, so all the way through clearing up, I was thinking, 'Don't miss, don't miss, don't miss'. My brother mentioned it to me a while ago, and it's such an easy tool to try to motivate yourself."

It was another good day for the qualifiers, with eight seeds now eliminated, matching the most to have gone at the first-round stage. Eight also went in 1992. The eight seeds out are: Stuart Bingham, Graeme Dott, Shaun Murphy, Stephen Lee, Martin Gould, Ding, Allen and Selby.