“It must have slipped Ding Junhui’s mind that the players’ dress code at the English Open is all black, given he turned up in brown trousers for his match against Ma Hailong. A last-minute dash to the shops was required – the Chinese player was docked a frame for being late – before scraping through following a seven-frame thriller. “I totally forgot,” Junhui professed. “My memory is not good!””