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!