Summary

  • China's Ding Junhui beats Stephen Maguire 10-6 to win UK Championship for third time

  • Players make seven century breaks - five of them in the last six frames

  • Ding hit back-to-back centuries to lead 5-3 after first session

  • Maguire responded with centuries in 11th, 13th & 14th frames

  • Ding tons in 15th and 16th frames clinch victory at York Barbican

  • He takes home £200,000 after winning his fourth Triple Crown title

  1. Record-breaking stuffpublished at 21:22 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 9-6 Maguire

    Record-breaking stuff. What a tournament we have had.

    CenturiesImage source, BBC Sport
  2. Ding one frame away from victorypublished at 21:20 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 9-6 Maguire

    S.E.N.S.A.T.I.O.N.A.L.

    Ding Junhui with a beak of 131. Perfect timing. He's just one frame away.

  3. Postpublished at 21:18 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    Ding Junhui and Stephen Maguire are making this game look ridiculously easy.

    We're going to have another century - that's the third on the trot. Do we have to finish at the best of 19?

  4. Postpublished at 21:15 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    John Parrott
    1991 world champion on BBC Two

    This isn't the final that many might have picked but this has been a wonderful match with very high quality.

  5. Postpublished at 21:15 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    Ding Junhui looks like he could be taking a big step towards the UK Championship title here.

    He's 69 ahead with 67 left on the table. This is also controlled. Pressure? What pressure?

  6. Postpublished at 21:13 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    He's not doing too badly James.

  7. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:12 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    #bbcsnooker

    James: Ding really needs to stop doing for these high tariff shots. Absolutely no need for it.

  8. Postpublished at 21:11 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    Ding Junhui gets back to the table albeit a touch fortuitously after playing what I can only say was a ridiculous attempted plant - that missed.

    A Stephen Maguire miss to the middle bag has teed him up perfectly though so maybe it was all part of some ingenious plan. Can he told it together? He's hardly potted a ball in the last half an hour.

  9. Postpublished at 21:07 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 15: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    Blimey what is Stephen Maguire doing here? He's left a tempter for Ding Junhui - a red over the left corner but he's going to have to play a red onto it.

    Not easy at all.

  10. Maguire's gamble pays offpublished at 21:04 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 14: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    Steve Davis
    Six-time world champion on BBC Two

    The shot Ding missed was a result of Maguire's attacking safety play.

    Maguire gambled a fraction on how the reds would open up and then asked the question of Ding 'do you fancy trying to knock one in from the cushion'.

  11. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:03 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    #bbcsnooker

    Martin: Have a feeling this is going to be a thrilling finish, Maguire looks the better player and Ding looks under pressure.

    Ged: This is a great response by Maguire three tons in last four frames

  12. Maguire now two behindpublished at 21:02 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 14: Ding 8-6 Maguire

    What a clearance from Stephen Maguire, who slams in the final black for a break of 124.

    That equals last year's record for centuries at this tournament. And the 'Big Mo' is with the Scot at the moment.

  13. 'Maguire looking imperious'published at 20:59 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 14: Ding 8-5 Maguire

    John Parrott
    1991 world champion on BBC Two

    Stephen Maguire is finding his best snooker of the final at the most important time.

    He is hitting it like last night's session when he won 6-0 and is looking imperious.

    Ding better be on his guard.

  14. Postpublished at 20:59 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 14: Ding 8-5 Maguire

    Stephen Maguire is calm, composed and sinking balls like it's going out of fashion

    Looks like he has solved his curing problem from before. This is Harry Potter stuff.

    Three centuries in four frames anyone?

  15. Postpublished at 20:56 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Shamoon Hafez
    BBC Sport at the York Barbican

    This is making for a great spectacle.

    Maguire's two breaks of 103 has dragged him back into the contest and Ding will be feeling a little twitchy in his chair now.

    The Scot is cueing so smoothly in among the reds.

  16. Postpublished at 20:56 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 14: Ding 8-5 Maguire

    Stephen Maguire is playing like a man possessed now, as he wafts a tricky pink into the middle.

    Just the 52 points and counting.

    Stephen MaguireImage source, Getty Images
  17. Postpublished at 20:53 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 14: Ding 8-5 Maguire

    Ding Junhui does not look settled at all now. He's let Stephen Maguire in again.

    Could this be another frame back?

  18. Postpublished at 20:50 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 14: Ding 8-5 Maguire

    Stephen Maguire is literally going for everything now.

    He follows a shot towards the middle expecting it to drop but it just flicks the knuckle.

    How he can laugh and joke about it is beyond me, but the pressure appears to be all heaped on Ding Junhui now.

  19. 'Maguire a ferocious competitor'published at 20:49 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 13: Ding 8-5 Maguire

    Stephen Hendry
    Seven-time world champion on BBC Two

    Stephen Maguire has always been a competitive animal, ferocious at the table and he won't allow Ding to walk away with the title.

    Ding has to be wary of complacency, he missed a pot there because he lost a little bit of concentration.

    He has to be careful not to see that winning line prematurely.

  20. Maguire's century closes the gappublished at 20:47 Greenwich Mean Time 8 December 2019

    Frame 13: Ding 8-5 Maguire

    Stephen MaguireImage source, Getty Images

    Stephen Maguire snookers himself on the brown after making 103. "Easy", he says before smashing the white off the cushion into the brown.

    If that had dropped it would have been exhibition stuff.