The second game day of the Shanghai Masters 2015.

John Higgins makes a great start in the first game day of the Shanghai Masters, beating 5-1 Liang Venbo.

After a long-awaited victory in Australia Higgins continued successful performance and, thanks to yesterday's victory, booked place at the 1/8 finals.

Venbo looked a little tired. Apparently, the affected the part in the World Cup final 6-red, which ended last week.

«Today, luck was on my side», - the four-time world champion Higgins has told after a match.

Martin Gould became John's rival in the following round. The silver prize-winner of Australian Open beats Barry Hawkins.

WildCard Round:

Kyren Wilson (5-1) Wang Yucheng
66-37, 63-18, 70(70)-0, 104(65)-0, 14-79, 55-20

Jamie Cope (5-2) Lin Shuai
66-10, 107(67)-6, 58-49, 6-80, 48-73, 64-3, 108(54)-24

Tom Ford (5-2) Han Bin
19-55, 0-(63)80, 67-52, 98(74)-4, 128(62)-0, 61(56)-4, 58-27

1/16 финала:

Stuart Bingham (5-2) Fang Xiongman
62-23, 63-55, 91(65)-7, 11-74, 98(97)-0, 12-(104)113, 87-9

Judd Trump (5-0) Robert Milkins
86(53)-33, 81(74)-0, 122(122)-1, 78(62)-0, 69-20

Ricky Walden (scr-w/o) Matthew Selt

Stephen Maguire (1-5) Michael Holt
75-14, 6-(101)101, 0-(91)91, 17-48, 2-57, 26-(68)72

Ding Junhui (5-1) Alan McManus
68-38, 54-71, 85-45, 88(66)-10, 104(104)-0, 74(74)-0

Marco Fu (3-5) Mike Dunn
37-65, 66-58, 76(76)-(54)54, 48-59, 15-(68)73, 73(50)-(60)60, 20-72, 33-(53)72

All results, the tournament table and statistics Shanghai Masters 2015 available here.