Luca Brecel

Zhou Yuelong 8-8 Mark Allen (0-0)

Yeah, nothing left on.

So Allen plays safe to get the cue ball to baulk and actually hits the jaws of the yellow pocket and just stays aboard!

Zhou Yuelong 8-8 Mark Allen (0-0)

On the stretch, Zhou gets a simple pot all wrong and misses into the right corner pocket.

The cue ball remains around the reds too but not sure if he’s gotten away with it and not left anything on.

Zhou Yuelong 8-8 Mark Allen (0-0)

Safety exchange to start the frame as you might probably expect.

Every shot carefully thought out as an error could spell the end.

Zhou Yuelong 8-8 Mark Allen

An enormous cheers greets both men as they return to the floor.

Zhou Yuelong to break in the decider.

Zhou Yuelong 8-8 Mark Allen

We’re heading to a decider!

Allen sinks the remaining balls after Zhou potted the cue ball and we’re going to have a 17th and final frame to decide our English Open winner.

And that decider will start after midnight, when they kicked things off at 1pm this afternoon. It’s been said so many times this week but that’s a completely absurd situation to expect sports stars to operate at their best in. Genuinely ridiculous.

But never mind. A one-frame shoot-out for £100,000!

Zhou Yuelong 8-7 Mark Allen (59-75)

Allen flukes a snooker when he hits the green this time.

Zhou makes contact with the green too but it sends the cue ball into the pocket after doing so!

Errors galore and four points to Allen!

Elliot Slessor 4-4 Mark Allen (19-0)

Maybe it was the reset for Slessor, who gets to 19 points in this break without much concern.

Elliot Slessor 4-4 Mark Allen

We’re headed for a decider!

And if you’ve been here for the last couple of hours, that absolutely won’t surprise you.

Slessor pots the pink before the pair have a couple of shots at putting the black safe.

That was, until Slessor leaves Allen the straightest pot he could hope for into the yellow pocket which he smashes away.

Only one winner from here but hopefully, for Slessor’s sake, the fact it’s a one-frame shoot-out will reset him. As the last hour and a bit has been pretty desperate to say the least.

Elliot Slessor 4-3 Mark Allen (46-59)

Oooooh, Allen misses the pink for the frame!

A routine pot too and the pink bounces away to safety and he takes a 13-point lead with 13 on the table!

Elliot Slessor 4-3 Mark Allen (46-0)

It WAS the big opportunity and again it goes begging for Elliot Slessor.

It’s actually getting tough to watch now as we tick into Saturday morning.

Mark Allen returns to the table once more.

Elliot Slessor 4-3 Mark Allen (33-0)

The Slessor break continues as he takes his time over each shot knowing this is his opportunity.