Flying colours /Scots star in home open

Two home players were to the fore at the Scottish Open in Glasgow yesterday as Ross Muir knocked out the defending champion Neil Robertson and John Higgins made a 147 break.

There was controversy after Robertson’s 4-2 second-round defeat as he accused the referee of allowing Muir, above, to play too slowly but the Scot later explained he had struggled with the lights due to an eye complaint and the Australian apologised.

Higgins’ maximum came in the third frame of his 4-0 whitewash of Northern Ireland’s Gerard Greene and earned him a £20,000 bonus.

It was not without a scare, as the 15th black rattled both jaws in the corner pocket before eventually dropping in, but the 43-year-old four times world champion from Wishaw kept his composure to clean up the colours.

Graeme Dott, the 2006 world champion, beat Scott Donaldson 4-1 in an allscottish contest but Belgium’s Luca Brecel knocked out home favourite Alan Mcmanus and England’s Stuart Carrington put paid to the hopes of another Scot, Eden Sharav.