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Home favourite Tian Pengfei set up a clash with snooker superstar Ronnie O'Sullivan in the first round of the Sanyuan Foods China Open by knocking out Mark Davis in the wild-card round.

Davis, 37, produced a career-best break of 143 against Tian but lost the match 5-4 to his 22-year-old opponent, who goes on to take on 'The Rocket' on Wednesday.

There was more Chinese success as teenager Liu Chuang hammered England's Rory McLeod 5-0 to set up a clash with 2008 Crucible finalist Ali Carter.

Sheffield-based Liu, who qualified for the World Championship last year for the first time, again demonstrated his potential by overwhelming 38-year-old McLeod.

Century opener

The 19-year-old made a break of 104 in the opening frame and restricted McLeod to just 42 points in the entire match.

Veteran Thai player James Wattana also came through the wild-card round, the 40-year-old knocking out Hong Kong player Au Chi Wai 5-0. He will play Mark King next.

Andrew Higginson romped to a 5-0 win over Li Yan to set up a first-round clash with Stephen Hendry.

Another Englishman, Robert Milkins, also advanced after a straightforward 5-2 victory over Lu Chenwei. Milkins will face Wales' Ryan Day next.

Rod Lawler set up a meeting with Masters champion Mark Selby as he saw off the challenge of Thailand's Supoj Saenla 5-3.

Malta's Tony Drago will take on England's Joe Perry in the first round after ousting China's Shi Shuamgyang 5-3, while Belgium's Bjorn Haneveer won 5-4 against another Chinese player, Yu Delu, and will take on Marco Fu.