Ding takes Jiansgu Classic title

Eurosport - Sun, 08 Jun 15:00:00 2008

Ding Junhui won the Jiangsu Classic in his home country after beating Mark Selby 6-5 in the final in Nanjing.

SNOOKER Ding Junhui - 0

The Chinese collected the £20,000 first prize by beating the world number four in the deciding frame.

Ding came from a frame down twice to level the match at 2-2 before opening up a three frame lead, with breaks of 59 and 70 on the way.

Masters champion Selby fought back to level the match at 5-5 with breaks of 64, 85 and 74 and take the best-of-11 final to a deciding frame.

The Englishman hit a break of 52 but then did not pot another ball after that, and Ding took the frame 77-52 and with it the title.

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  1. Congrats Ding. Glad you won at home.

    From Tomislav, on Sun 8 Jun 7:43PM
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