Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan said he was troubled by a bad foot after reaching the fourth round of the Betway UK Championship with a comfortable victory over Thailand's Noppon Saengkham.
The Chigwell star, who is chasing the eighth UK title of his stellar career, was in dominant form at York Barbican, winning 6-2.
But the 43-year-old said he was struggling with "a really, really bad foot".
"I hope I am OK to play," O'Sullivan told BBC Sport. "It's an old running injury.
"I couldn't stop running forever so I got back to running four or five weeks ago and it's just really sore.
"I have to manage it. I don't want to pull out so will just have to run on the days I am not playing."
Breaks of 97 and 76 underpinned his success, with a spectacular pink to the corner pocket sealing victory in frame eight.
O'Sullivan did not drop a frame in the first two rounds, whitewashing Ross Bulman and Tian Pengfei.
And although Saengkham ended that sequence, he had no answer to O'Sullivan's all-round game.
O'Sullivan will meet China's Ding Junhui in the last 16 after he came through 6-4 against Ali Carter.
The 32-year-old Ding scored five breaks of over 50 to hold off a resilient Carter.
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