Mark Selby defeats Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-7 to win UK Championship

ByPete Sharland

Updated 04/12/2016 at 22:32 GMT

World number one Mark Selby defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-7 in a thrilling final as he lifted the UK Championship final.

Billed as one of the biggest match-ups in recent snooker history the pair ensured the final lived up to its billing with some sensational snooker throughout.

O'Sullivan took a 2-1 lead but he really should have been three frames up.

Selby nails doubled pink against O'Sullivan

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His failure to do so was punished as Selby took advantage of some poor mistakes from O'Sullivan, combined with some impressive potting of his own to open up a 6-2 lead at the break.

After the interval the Leicester man looked as if he was taking total control of the final when he won the ninth to go 7-2 up.

However O'Sullivan roared back to bring the match to 7-5 before the shorter break undid him, as Selby moved to 9-7.

Selby pulls off inventive cannon pot

In the seventeenth frame both players made fantastic pots but also basic errors, which resulted in a safety battle of the highest order.

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Eventually O'Sullivan missed a red to right middle pocket and Selby capitalised and saw out the frame with a century break.

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