Whisper it quietly, but after clinching another quick frame, Ronnie O’Sullivan has now hit seven reds and seven blacks...

O’Sullivan and Vafaei are back out there after the interval. Meanwhile Jak Jones is closing in on another frame against Neil Robertson, and a place in the quarter-finals.

O’Sullivan has played four frames this afternoon and won all four in double quick time. This time Vafaei misses a red while scattering the pack and O’Sullivan clears the table. This is utter domination.

Robertson spurns and Jak Jones takes advantage to steal another frame – the Welshman is just two now from reaching the quarter-finals for the first time in his career.

Progress has been slower on table two, where Neil Robertson has earned back one frame and is well-placed to pick up another. Could he pull off a comeback?

O’Sullivan wraps up another frame with rapid 60+ break, and he’s four from the quarter-finals.

Oh dear – Vafaei had the 10th frame in his grasp but a miss with 59 points on the board let O’Sullivan back in. He needed to clear a cluttered table but is on the way to doing so brilliantly, his shot from pink to yellow the pick of the bunch, although using the cue ball to dislodge the final red from the cushion wasn’t bad either...

O’Sullivan does indeed clear up to win the frame by one point! Vafaei needs a miracle now.

O’Sullivan makes a rare mistake after a half-century break, missing a pink off the spot to let Vafaei back to the table needing to clear up to win it. But Vafaei misses a routine blue while trying to get the cue ball cannoning into the reds, and O’Sullivan returns to mop up the frame.

O’Sullivan and Vafaei immediately engage in a safety battle, and it’s won by the seven-time world champion when he’s left a sight of a long red, which he buries into the left corner. He’s already racked up a break of 38 with only the pink and blue – the black was knocked on to the top cushion earlier in the frame – and he’s well placed to go and extend his lead in this second-round match.

The players are out on the Crucible floor. On table one it’s Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Hossein Vafaei, while on table two it’s Neil Robertson against Jak Jones.