Kyren Wilson found a timely change of gear to beat Kurt Maflin 6-3 and reach the last-16 of snooker's UK Championship.
The World Championship runner-up found himself 2-0 down after a sloppy start, but back-to-back breaks of 132 earned parity before he took the next three to establish a clear lead.
That sequence of five frames proved to be a blow from which Maflin could not recover and while a 78 break kept his slim hopes alive, Wilson sealed victory with a run of 99 to earn a meeting with Graeme Dott.
"I felt like I played really well," Wilson told the BBC. "From 2-0 down I didn’t really do too much wrong. I had a bit of bad fortune in the second frame and just went on a bit of a scoring spree after that.
"To sort of punch Kurt the way I did, because he does that to a lot of players, yeah, I’m delighted with that performance."
At the top of the draw, Jack Lisowski's bid to earn a Masters place took another step forward with a 6-2 dismissal of Xu Si.
Lisowski is currently on course to bag the final spot at January's invitational, leg two of the triple crown, and this win meant that Dott and Barry Hawkins can no longer qualify unless they at the very least make the final here.
Though the match produced only one century, which came from Xu in frame six, Lisowski compiled five breaks of 50-plus after Xu had kicked things off with a run of 97.
Lisowski's reward, as well as a further boost to his Masters hopes, is a clash with Xiao Guodong.
Mark Selby was a similarly wide-margin winner against Hossein Vafaei in a match which took considerably longer, both players approaching 30 seconds per shot in what was a real grind.
Not that two-time champion Selby will mind as he advanced to face Hawkins next.
Finally on Tuesday afternoon, Joe O'Connor gave up a 5-2 lead as Joe Perry stole a 6-5 victory. The match turned in frame nine, which Perry won 65-63 before completing a fabulous fightback.
Welshman Mark Williams was unable to complete a stirring comeback of his own against England’s Ricky Walden.
Williams battled back from 5-2 down to level the contest 5-5, but Walden ultimately clinched the victory with a break of 55 in the deciding frame.
China’s Pang Xunxu also left it until late to down last year’s runner-up Stephen Maguire, reeling off multiple three-frame runs to defeat the Scotsman 6-5.
Elsewhere, Jamie Jones overcame Ronnie O’Sullivan’s conqueror Alexander Ursenbacher 6-4, while Lu Ning disposed of Elliott Slessor 6-1.
