Stephen Hendry and Stephen Maguire, one Scot with a remarkable record of tournament victories behind him and the other with the potential to emulate some of those achievements, advanced to the third round of the Totesport grand prix yesterday.

Hendry, four times a winner of the title, provided only flashes of his best in defeating Gloucester's Robert Milkins 5-3. Maguire, 23, kept his cool after his 4-1 lead over Ricky Walden had been reduced to 4-3 to go through a 5-3 winner.

Maguire, a 150-1 outsider when he won last season's European Open, spent long hours of his teenage years practising with Hendry at Spencers Snooker Club in Stirling. He has since moved to a club nearer his Glasgow home but still travels once a week to play, and often beat, the sport's greatest ever exponent.

"Stephen has the potential to be very good," Hendry said of his protege. "He's given me a few hammerings in practice and there are days when he never misses. If he keeps learning then he can go a long way and win lots of tournaments."

Hendry as yet shows few signs of passing on his mantle as Scotland's leading player. Although he struggled at times against Milkins, a break of 101, his 640th career century, was completed with trademark panache and the difficult black he potted along the top cushion to prevent the contest going to a deciding frame proved he can still pot the pressure balls.

"I wasn't happy with the way I played but I'm still in the tournament, so I'm still capable of winning it," Hendry said. "It may be that it's the first tournament of the season and because I'm getting old it's taking me longer than usual to settle down. There's certainly no shortage of determination, I'm just struggling to get into the rhythm I'm used to."