Referee Cirin Wilson's hero, 6-3, has Lee Bevan in the first match of his world title defense at Bhutan Theater in Sheffield.
The second number of blacks was missed twice from the place in the second frame, where Lay Potol, 21, 21, 2-0 went to the foreground.
The 33 -year -old English recovered to win the next six tires in a row, making 136 breaks on the eighth to add it to three previous centuries.
But the Chinese qualifiers, the final frame disk of the session, after Wilson missed the pink who tries to get a last red site, to give himself hope to return.
The best of 19 frames will be played to the end from 19:00 GMT.
