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Mark Allen had mislaid successful the last of the UK Championship successful 2011 and 2018Northern Ireland's Mark Allen produced a sensational betterment arsenic helium fought backmost from 6-1 down to bushed Ding Junhui 10-7 and triumph his archetypal UK Championship.
Ding, 35, looked successful implicit power with 3 centuries successful the opening 7 frames connected his mode to what would person been a 4th UK success.
But Allen took the past framework of the day league and the archetypal six successful the evening arsenic the lucifer swung around.
Ding made 105 successful the 15th frame, but Allen clinched a sensational win.
The match, which did not decorativeness until 23:30 GMT, volition beryllium regarded arsenic 1 of the astir enthralling UK Championship finals successful the 45-year past of the tournament.
Allen, 36, had been declared bankrupt successful May 2021 and antecedently said helium was 'spending the wealth arsenic rapidly arsenic helium earned it', but this triumph sees him cod the £250,000 apical prize.
It continues a singular fewer months for him aft helium decided to alteration his beingness successful the summertime with an intensive fittingness regular that saw him suffer 5 chromatic successful value successful a four-month period.
Since past helium has present won back-to-back ranking events aft clinching the Northern Ireland Open past period and besides reaching the last of the British Open successful October.
He is 5th successful the satellite rankings and this was his 2nd triumph successful a 'Triple Crown' lawsuit aft clinching the 2018 Masters with a triumph implicit Kyren Wilson.
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