Doherty claims first 147

Doherty made the maximum break during a 4-0 win over Julian Treiber in the third round of the tournament in Furth.

The Irishman, who infamously just missed out on a 147 back in 2000, said: “I’ve certainly waited long enough to make a 147 in tournament play.

"Missing the black in the Masters...will haunt me for the rest of my career and people will never let me forget that but at least now that I’ve made one. It’s a lovely feeling.”

Doherty went on to defeat Stephen Lee 4-3 in round four and Yu De Lu 4-1 in round five.

World number one Mark Selby also progressed into the sixth round of the tournament, held in honour of the late Paul Hunter, who died from neuroendocrine tumors in 2006, just before his 28th birthday.

Selby beat Mark Davis 4-3 in the fifth round, but John Higgins was bounced out at the same stage, 4-1 by Pankaj Advani.

The remaining third, fourth and fifth round matches are scheduled to be completed on Saturday, before the tournament is played out to a finish.

181) Ryan Day 4-2 John Astley

182) Li Yan 3-4 Jamie Jones

183) John Higgins 1-4 Pankaj Advani

184) Alfie Burden 1-4 Mark King

185) Scott Donaldson v Michael Wild

186) Yu Delu 1-4 Ken Doherty

187) Robbie Williams 4-2 Jamie Cope

188) Mark Selby 4-3 Mark Davis

149) Jack Lisowski 2-4 Ryan Day

150) John Astley 4-1 Gary Wilson

151) Li Yan 4-1 Matthew Stevens

152) Jak Jones 1-4 Jamie Jones

153) John Higgins 4-1 Craig Steadman

154) Ian Burns 1-4 Pankaj Advani

155) Alfie Burden 4-3 Martin Gould

156) Sanjin Kusan 0-4 Mark King

157) Chris Norbury 2-4 Scott Donaldson

158) Marcus Campbell 0-4 Michael Wild

159) Yu Delu 4-2 Paul Davison

160) Ken Doherty 4-3 Stephen Lee

161) Robert Milkins 3-4 Robbie Williams

162) Simon Bedford 1-4 Jamie Cope

163) Gerard Greene 0-4 Mark Selby

164) Ali Carter 2-4 Mark Davis

85) Jack Lisowski 4-0 Oliver Lines

86) Ryan Day w/o Passakorn Suwannawat

87) Ryan Causton 3-4 John Astley

88) Gary Wilson 4-2 Kurt Maflin

89) Li Yan 4-3 Justin Astley

90) Matthew Stevens 4-1 Adam Wicheard

91) Jak Jones 4-2 Oliver Brown

92) Jimmy Robertson 0-4 Jamie Jones

94) Craig Steadman 4-0 Alexander Ursenbache

95) Ian Burns 4-0 Carl Rosenberger

93) John Higgins 4-2 Michael Leslie

96) Pankaj Advani 4-0 Martin O'Donnell

97) Dave Harold 3-4 Alfie Burden

98) Gareth Allen 0-4 Martin Gould

99) Liu Chuang v Sanjin Kusan w/o

100) Cao Yupeng v Mark King w/o

101) Fergal O'Brien 3-4 Chris Norbury

102) Scott Donaldson 4-1 Ricky Norris

103) Marcus Campbell 4-2 Mitchell Mann

104) Jordan Brown 0-4 Michael Wild

105) Yu DeLu w/o Tian Pengfei

106) Paul Davison 4-2 Matthew Selt

107) Ken Doherty 4-0 Julian Treiber

108) Stephen Lee 4-0 Aaron Busuttil

109) Robert Milkins 4-3 Michael Wasley

110) Robbie Williams 4-2 Tom Ford

111) Steve Davis 2-4 Simon Bedford

112) Jamie Cope 4-0 Jeff Cundy

113) James Wattana v Gerard Greene w/o

114) Mark Selby 4-0 Sean O'Sullivan

115) Allister Carter 4-0 Johnny Kells

116) Sam Baird 1-4 Mark Davis

73) Andreas Ploner 4-1 Terry Challenger

74) Stuart Carrington 0-4 Ian Glover

75) Sam Harvey 4-0 Bernd Strnad

76) Duane Jones 4-0 Luca Kaufmann

77) Jack Bradford 0-4 Joe Swail

78) Marc Davis 4-1 Tomasz Skalski

79) Dominik Scherubl 3-4 Kishan Hirani

80) Phil O'Kane 0-4 Kyren Wilson

81) Oliver Kremp 0-4 Alex Davies

82) Darko Hojan v Ole Steiner

83) Soner Sari 1-4 Christopher Keogan

84) Tobias Hirmer 1-4 Liam Monk