Grace lines up meeting with former world champion Ebdon

By The Newsroom
Published 1st Dec 2015, 00:00 BST
Leedss David Grace continues to make an impression at the UK Championship in York with a 6-4 win over Jack Lisowski.Leedss David Grace continues to make an impression at the UK Championship in York with a 6-4 win over Jack Lisowski.
Leedss David Grace continues to make an impression at the UK Championship in York with a 6-4 win over Jack Lisowski.
LEEDS’S David Grace came through an epic last-32 battle with Jack Lisowski to keep his amazing run at the UK Championship going.

The Yorkshireman has had a memorable week in York, beating Andrew Higginson in round one, downing world No 17 Robert Milkins in style in the last 64 and now seeing off Lisowski 6-4.

The 30-year-old is getting married next year and admits the £12,000 he is now guaranteed from the tournament will come in handy, after only just about breaking even so far in his snooker career.

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He made a break of 52 in the opening frame against Lisowski, although the talented Cheltenham youngster still pinched it to move 1-0 ahead.

Grace responded to level proceedings at 1-1, but his opponent, who is working with 1979 world champion Terry Griffiths on the mental side of his game, made a fluent 89 in the third and was 3-1 ahead at the mid-session interval.

Leeds potter Grace is currently ranked 81 in the world, although he will now enter the world’s top 75, and demonstrated his grit and determination after the interval.

Grace cleans tables at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds to earn extra money and swept the 24-year-old off the baize to once again tie things up at 3-3, a knock of 75 in frame five particularly impressive.

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