Hong Kong’s Marco Fu stunned former world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan by beating him 9-6 in the final of the Royal London Watches Grand Prix.
The world No 27 fought back from 5-3 down, winning six of the last seven frames to triumph at at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Fu pocketed 375,000 as this year’s winner, while O’Sullivan took home 35,000 as runner-up.
“It’s not sunk in yet,” said Fu, after winning his first ranking event.
Fu led 3-1 at the afternoon interval thanks to breaks of 78, 110 and 74.
But O’Sullivan mounted an impressive fightback, forging ahead to take a 5-3 lead.
Fu reduced the arrears to 5-4 by winning a scrappy ninth frame on points 99-0, before impressing with a break of 94 in the next to level.
A superb 117 clearance in the next frame allowed Fu to edge ahead again and he went on take the 12th frame.
O’Sullivan pulled within one frame of levelling with a pressure break of 65, but Fu made an unbelievable 60 clearance to steal the next frame.
Fu then rattled off a match-winning break of 76.
“I couldn’t make a 50 for 24 months until I started working with 1979 world champion Terry Griffiths,” said Fu. “I owe him a huge thank you.”
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
