“Welcome back to Eurosportu0027s live coverage of the 2022 UK Championship, the first triple crown event of the year. Today itu0027s the big one, itu0027s the final. We have three-time winner Ding Junhui, who triumphed as recently as 2019, up against Mark Allen. The latter has never won this event, but he has reached the final on two occasions, once in 2011 and once again in 2018.”