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Selby fights back to win
22:45, Dec 6 2009
Mark Selby staged a brilliant fightback to win his first ranking event match this season and reach round two of the Pukka Pies UK Championship.
The 26-year-old Leicester potter was 8-4 down and staring at a dismal defeat to fellow Englishman Jamie Cope, but he reeled off five successive frames to set up a clash with Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis.
Selby went tantalisingly close to knocking John Higgins out of the World Championship in April, blowing a 12-11 lead to lose 13-12 to the eventual tournament winner.
This time he was the man behind the comeback, recovering well after dropping the first four frames of the day having resumed at 4-4.
Selby roared back with breaks of 67, 101, 57, 115 and a closing 73 to stun Cope.
Welshman Ryan Day went out of the tournament after a heavy 9-3 defeat to China's Liang Wenbo, but he almost had the consolation of a maximum 147 break.
Day cleared all the reds and blacks and an easy yellow in the 11th frame, when 8-2 behind, but was left with a tricky green along the cushion.
He made a precision pot, however, his positioning on the brown was then awkward, despite the colour being on its spot.
Day faced a tricky cut and saw the brown wriggle out of the jaws, meaning he had broken down on 125, and a run of 73 in the next frame from Liang wrapped up an impressive victory for this season's Shanghai Masters runner-up.
Australian Neil Robertson converted a 5-3 overnight lead into a 9-3 victory against England's Tom Ford. Grand Prix champion Robertson was clinical on Sunday and made breaks of 48, 64, 53 and 87 before finishing with a break of 119, and he will face Higgins or Ricky Walden next.
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