Perry has shown good form in York

The 31-year-old from Cambridgeshire, who has reached the semi-finals for the last two years, led 7-1 overnight after breaks of 125, 93, 75, 74, 66 and 60.

And he needed only 26 minutes on Tuesday to complete the victory.

"The damage was done on Monday when I played exceptionally well; it's nice to win comfortably for a change," he said.

"I've won a lot of matches here in the last two years and the easiest was 9-6, so it's a bit of a rarity for me.

"It seems to work out that I do well here. I don't come up here expecting to repeat my feats of the year before but I really like the city and the surroundings."

England's Mike Dunn also reached the second round after a 9-5 victory over James Wattana while Dave Harold fired a break of 102 in the final frame to beat Robert Milkins 9-7.

Harold will now take on Stephen Hendry in the next round on Saturday, which will be his 40th birthday.

"It's been a long time coming," said the world number 35.

"Before this I had only qualified for two venues in the last 14 months, which was last season's Grand Prix and World Championship, so I must admit it feels nice."

Scot Jamie Burnett will play Steve Davis in the second round on Thursday after hitting two centuries in a 9-3 victory over Andy Hicks, while Joe Swail meets 2004 champion Stephen Maguire after prevailing 9-7 against Joe Delaney.

Alan McManus maintained his encouraging start to the season with a 9-5 win over fellow Scot Marcus Campbell.

The 35-year-old Glaswegian reached the semi-finals of the Grand Prix in October after a disastrous 2005-06 campaign and looks to be re-discovering the form that kept him in the world's top 16 for 14 years.

"It was a bit of a local derby, that game," said McManus, who meets former world champion Shaun Murphy for the first time in the next round.

"When you are 4-0 up you can start protecting the lead a little bit, and that's what I was doing."

Ricky Walden will play Ronnie O'Sullivan in the second round after a 9-6 victory over Ian McCulloch.

And Rod Lawler finally emerged a 9-7 winner after a marathon encounter with Anthony Hamilton.

His reward is a meeting with Stephen Lee on Wednesday.