GRAEME DOTT annihilated Robert Milkins but reckons he will need to perform just as well again to beat the player he calls ‘the Machine’.

Dott hit three centuries in his last 32 UK Championship clash - opening with 117 and closing with 120 and 127 - as he destroyed the Milkman 6-0 to set up a repeat of his 2010 World Championship final with defending champion Neil Robertson in the fourth round.

The Scotsman restricted Milkins, still suffering with an eye complaint, to just 28 points and believes he will need to repeat that standard in the last 16.

He said: “I pretty much dominated the match from the start. I got two chances in the last two frames and made two centuries. I couldn’t play a lot better.

“That’s the level we all aim to play at. I could play like that and still lose and I could play a lot worse than that and still win. I will be aiming to play as well as that again.

“I have been playing well. I was playing well before I came here and my practice form has been good. I have taken it in there and am enjoying it.”

On Robertson, he said: “He’s definitely one of the best. I know he gets called a machine but he is. He never looks like missing. When he pots a red you don’t expect to get back in.”

Milkins said: “I am not disappointed to tell the truth. I was half expecting it. My eye has gradually got worse. Graeme played well but I was just pleased to get through two matches playing with one eye.

“It is looking a little bit better but it has actually got worse visually. Anything over six feet - I couldn’t see.”

He added: “I don’t know the situation with eyes but I could lose my sight. I don’t know what might happen. As a snooker player, that’s the main thing.

“Everyone goes on about Ronnie’s ankle, I’d swap. I would rather play with a bad ankle than one eye.”

Stuart Bingham, meanwhile, had the fright of his life against Joel Walker - having to recover from 3-0 down to win in a tense final frame decider.

He said he was “very fortunate” to still be in the tournament.

“It was one of those days,” Bingham explained. “I brought Joel down to my level. I had to change something. I was struggling all over the place.

“I slowed it down and tried to grind away. To make 95 to finish the match off was unbelievable. I was shaking on every shot.

“A couple of years ago, I may have lain down and let him beat me.”

Bingham now moves on to play Ricky Walden and added: “He has come off a good win at the International Championship. He will be full of confidence. Hopefully I can get out there and put on a good show.”