The match of the two legends lasted 75 minutes, in which Frenchman Thierry Lincou (pic ri) had the better end against Australian David Palmer (pic le) (8-11, 11-4, 11-5, 3-11, 11-5). Afterwards 3rd seed Karim Darwish (EGY) shortened the head-to-heads to 3:4, when he beat Australian Stewart Boswell (AUS) in four games (11-8, 11-7, 6-11, 11-3). England’s Daryl Selby and Cameron Pilley of from Australia today played the longest match. In a 102 minutes encounter Selby made the quarters by beating Pilley 11-5, 9-11, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9. Nick Matthew eased trough the all-English match against team-mate Alister Walker 11-5, 12-10, 11-4.