Meanwhile, Mark Allen beat China’s Fan Zhengyi 10-6 to book his place in the second round for the fifth consecutive year.
The 39-year-old from Northern Ireland, who had trailed 3-0 before fighting back to lead 5-4 overnight, made breaks of 88 and 102 on his way to setting up a last-16 tie with qualifier Chris Wakelin.
Allen, a former Masters and UK Championship winner, is bidding for a first world title to complete the full set of Triple Crown event victories.
The world number eight told BBC Two: “It was a bit of a shaky start yesterday and I thought Fan was very good at the start. I was really happy to be 5-4 in front overnight and I played some really good snooker today.
“I stole two frames in a row that I had no real right to win and it made the scoreline look a little flattering at the interval – 9-4 could have easily been 7-6 and then it would have been game on.
“I didn’t close it out as clinically as I would have liked but I finished off nicely.”
Allen is joined in round two by Zhao Xintong, who wrapped up a comfortable 10-4 victory over 2024 runner-up Jak Jones.
Jones’ exit means both of last year’s finalists have exited the 2025 event in the first round, following defending champion Kyren Wilson’s defeat by Lei Peifan on Saturday.
Zhao will meet fellow Chinese player Lei for a place in the quarter-finals.
In Monday afternoon’s other first-round contest, three-time UK champion Ding Junhui opened up a 6-3 advantage against world number 73 Zak Surety.
Debutant Surety struggled to settled early on and was 4-0 down before he found any rhythm at all.
However, the Englishman regrouped after the mid-session pause and made a century break as he took three of the remaining five frames to limit the damage prior to Tuesday afternoon’s concluding session.
Si Jiahui took control of the battle between two former Crucible semi-finalists, with breaks of 97 and 73 helping him move 6-3 up on David Gilbert.
