Mark Allen beats Ding Junhui 10-7 in UK Championship final
Ding led Allen 6-1 earlier
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Allen 6-6 Ding
Mark Allen has produced several nice delicate little positional shots to keep this break going - his lead is up to 40 points now and he's threatening to take the lead for the first time in the final.
Allen 6-6 Ding
John Virgo
1979 UK Championship winner on BBC Two
That was a lot of thinking but in the end he couldn't come up with an answer.
Allen 6-6 Ding
Ding Junhui takes an absolute age to work out how to get out of a real problem position posed by a Mark Allen safety.
It doesn't help as he plays a bit of a shocker to leave a red right over the corner bag.
Allen 6-6 Ding
Ding Junhui's two UK Championship triumphs at the Barbican have both come via 10-6 scorelines, over Steve Davis in 2005 and Stephen Maguire in 2019.
He'd need to win four consecutive frames to win 10-6 here and given Mark Allen's fightback this evening, that seems unlikely.
Ding's other UK crown came in 2009, beating John Higgins 10-8 in the final when the competition was staged in Telford.
Allen 6-6 Ding
Mark Allen has plenty of supporters inside York's Barbican, but Ding Junhui is also a popular figure here, and he cites it as one of his favourite venues.
Image source, Rex FeaturesAllen 6-6 Ding
Bit of a wild swing at a long pot from Mark Allen. He leaves Ding Junhui with arguably an easier long one but it's still no gimme with the white near a baulk corner pocket.
The Chinese player misses it to oohs and aahs from the crowd - but he's fortunate not to leave anything.
Nervy start to frame 13.
Allen 6-6 Ding
Here we go.
As John Virgo just said on commentary, no more intervals.
A maximum of seven frames remain - a fourth UK title for Ding Junhui or a first for Mark Allen?
Allen 6-6 Ding
Former UK semi-finalist David Grace is as enthralled as the rest of us...
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Allen 6-6 Ding
John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two
It's not only the first prize, but the other carrot that is being dangled for Ding - the fact he could get into the Masters.
All those things he has to put to the back of his mind.
Allen 6-6 Ding
We drafted this graphic between the sessions with Ding Junhui looking set to claim a fourth UK Championship title - looks a bit premature now...
Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Two
The levels of expectation change in a match. There was less expectation on Mark Allen and that's maybe why he could relax. Now it's turned a bit, maybe Ding can relax, if he was a bit uptight.
Allen 6-6 Ding
Michael Emons
BBC Sport at York Barbican
Cast your mind back to 4.40pm. Ding Junhui had stormed into a 6-1 lead, with his third century break in four frames and it looked like this match would be all finished by 8pm.
In his past five frames, Mark Allen has now made breaks of 79, 60, 93, 132 and 56 and we've now, in effect, got a best-of-seven frame final starting at 9pm.
Allen's semi-final finished at 11.15pm last night. You wouldn't be surprised if this one finishes later. Great entertainment, great fighting spirit and great snooker.
These T-shirts are available to buy at the arena. They seem quite apt at the moment....
Image source, BBC SportAllen 6-6 Ding
John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two
Who'd have thought after what happened this afternoon that Ding would have been happy for a mid-session interval?
Allen 6-6 Ding
Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Two
Mark was hoping to play better snooker tonight. He must be delighted to have stolen those four frames.
It wasn't that Ding played badly at all, it's just the vagaries of snooker. Mark got some chances and actually produced some snooker.
Allen 6-6 Ding
The formalities are completed as Ding leaves a long pink and Mark Allen knocks it in.
The Northern Irishman has come from behind in every match this tournament - and now he's level at 6-6 in the final from 6-2 down. What a fightback.
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Tony D: I mention this whenever I watch a major snooker tournament, but I do think the foul and miss rule is unfair in one key aspect. If you don't need snookers, you get a miss called. If you need snookers to win, they won't call the miss which seems a perverse logic.
Killer Pirlo: What a frame. All that hard work getting back in it and miss the green. Killer. If he'd stole that could have been a match winner.
Allen 5-6 Ding
The snooker gods repay Allen for his honesty as Ding pots the yellow but lands awkward on the green and leaves it near the pocket.
Mark Allen knocks it in and we're all level! Well, barring two snookers.
Ding did all the hard work, getting two snookers in the first place but then messed it up when the chance presented itself to pinch the frame.
Allen 5-6 Ding
Michael Emons
BBC Sport at York Barbican
What a steal this frame would be for Ding, who has been 56-0 behind and also needed two snookers.
It's either going to be 6-6 or Ding pulls two clear again. You get the feeling the drama is just warming up. Don't go anywhere, this is turning into a classic.
Allen 5-6 Ding
Wow. The yellow lands right next to the green off a Ding safety.
Mark Allen sportingly asks referee Desislava Bozhilova to check the position - and then even more sportingly calls a foul on himself when he marginally hits the green first.
Allen 5-6 Ding
What. A. Shot.
Ding Junhui pots the final red and takes the black. Then plays a superb snooker on the yellow to get right behind the green which is nestling near a corner pocket.
An incredibly difficult escape and Mark Allen cannot manage it. Comes off the knuckle but impossible to judge. Ding now just 26 behind with 27 on...