The quarter final line-up at the UK Snooker Championship is now complete and the first of the matches gets underway at 2pm this afternoon.

Mark Williams and Shaun Murphy are the first two players to qualify for the quarter-finals of this year's Maplin UK Championship.

Five-time winner Stephen Hendry has been knocked out in the first round of the Maplin UK Snooker Championship, beaten 9-4 by 21-year-old Mark Allen.

Defending champion John Higgins leads Chris Small by 3-2 in the second round of the UK Snooker Championship at York today.