Snooker: Lee through to second round in Sheffield

Stephen Lee overcame illness to beat Chris Small and reach the second round of the Embassy World Championship.

The eighth seed lost his voice and was confined to bed for a couple of days with a chest infection last week.

But he defied the symptoms that remained to beat Small 10-7.

Lee was pegged back from 5-1 to 5-4 at the end of Monday's session and although he went 8-5 up, he was not firing on all cylinders. Small battled his way back to 9-7 down.

But when 42 points behind in frame 17, he caught a safety shot too thick and Lee cleared up to go through.