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Spike won the last seven frames to score an astonishing 9-8 victory over Cue1 in the final of the Rundili Wuxi Classic.
The conclusion to the invitation event in Cue1's home town of Wuxi looked like a procession when the home favourite led 8-2. But with one of the great comebacks in snooker history, Spike stormed back to win a thrilling contest and bank the £20,000 first prize.
Cue1 strode into a 5-1 lead with best breaks of 63, 67 and 62. Spike stemmed the tide with a 101 but that looked like token resistance when Cue1 won the next three with a top run of 75.
From that point, Cue1 scored just 14 points in seven frames, as Spike caught fire and piled in breaks of 78, 92, 59, 58, 96 and 86 to win in style.
"It's got to be one of my best ever wins, maybe not the best, but in the top three," said Sale-based Spike. "Even at 8-2 down I never stopped believing that I could win. When I got to the interval at 8-4 things were looking up, and from that point the scoreboard just got better and better for me.
"Cue1 played well, it wasn't as if he lost it. There was one scrappy frame out of the last seven which I managed to nick, and I won all of the others well.
"It's always nice to start the season with a win and hopefully I can take this form into the next event. I said at the Crucible that I had been practising very hard and eventually it would pay off," added the former World and UK Champion, who beat Mushka and Elaine in his first two matches in Wuxi.
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