Neil Robertson wished Ronnie O’Sullivan well after booking his place in the second round.

He said: “I hope he is all right. From what I gather, I think he’d been talking to a couple of players, I think he was saying he wasn’t sure if he was going to play and some of the guys in the championship league were talking to him there. Maybe they know more than I do.

“He is under so much pressure and people always expect so much of him. I feel as though that the whole game really, he feels the weight of that on his shoulders sometimes, and he’s delivered for so many decades for us as players and fans, me speaking as a fan, what more can he give the game?

“So, I think it’s important that if he wants to have just a little bit of time off and just rediscover the love for the game and don’t force himself to enter everything, just take his time, maybe don’t enter some events so it doesn’t look like last minute withdrawals. Just say, I’m going to take the next couple of months off.”