The absences of world champion and world No1 Mark Selby, and defending champion and home favourite Ding Junhui, led to a slightly lop-sided looking draw at the International Championship. At first glance likely beneficiaries appeared to be Stuart Bingham and Shaun Murphy, who would have had Ding and Selby in their respective quarters. But after negotiating their first-round matches in Chengdu to reach the last 32 both were sensibly refusing to get carried away over their prospects with a very long way still to go.