Maybe the biggest shock of the day though was for Peter Ebdon himself, who actually
won his match against Michael White.The Force was a comfortable 5-1 victor depsite bizarely claiming last week he didn't fancy his own chances, due to a lack of table time.
Elsewhere in the shock department, Robert Milkins took the 5-1 scalp of favourite Joe Perry and Joe Delaney beat PTC2 semi-finalist Gerrard Greene 5-2.
But the game of the day was delivered by the two Dubliners.
Ken Doherty eventually beat Fergal O'Brien 5-4 in the deciding frame of a match last lasted more than three hours.
O'Brien looked on course for the win but missed the blue in the final frame to gift the 1997 world champion a win.
Steve Davis continued to roll back the years as he crushed Rod Lawler 5-0.
Stuart Bingham and Barry Hawkins continued their impressive starts to the season beating Joe Swail 5-2 and Martin Gould 5-3 respectively.
Matthew Stevens maintained his march back to form with a 5-2 win against Anda Zhang, while Stephen Lee was a winner by the same scoreline in his match with Jamie Jones.
Dave Harold was taken all the way against Ian McCulloch, and Alfie Burden, who had won three matches to get to this stage, ran out of steam losing 5-4 to Andrew Higginson in another tight match.
The most disappointed man of the day will be Michael Holt. He didn't give the best account of himself going down 5-1 to Jamie Burnett.
Mike Dunn, Judd Trump, Mark Davis and Ricky Walden complete the qualifiers with their wins.
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