Ebdon wins UK Championship

A promising final between two world class players: Peter Ebdon and Stephen Hendry finished with victory for Ebdon 10-6.

Both players seemed to be in exellent form in the tournament. Peter Ebdon beat Ding Junhui in the quarter final 9-5 and John Higgins in the semifinal 9-7. Stephen Hendry beat Mark Williams in the quarter final 9-6 and Ronnie O'Sullivan in the semi final 9-1 (O'Sullivan gave up and left the arena when the score was 4-1 to Hendry).

Both Ebdon and Hendry started to miss more in the final than they had done in their earlier matches. After the first session Hendry was in the lead 3-1, but after the second Ebdon leveled the score 4-4 with breaks of 60, 83 and 135. From there Ebdon won the next four frames 8-4. Hendry managed to win the next two frames (8-6). After that Ebdon controlled his nerves and won the last two frames to claim victory 10-6.

With this title Ebdon joins only nine players in the world who have won snookers most prestigiuos titles: The world championship and UK Championship. An effort previous made by: Steve Davis, Terry Griffith, Alex Higgins, John Parrot, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins, Mark Williams and Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Ebdon is very pleased to win the UK Championship Title and especially to join the field of players who won both the UK Championship and the World Championship means a lot to him.

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