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Stuart Bingham won his second APTC title after beating Li Hang
4-3 in the final. Image: World Snooker

Stuart Bingham won his second Asian Players’ Tour Championship event of the season after beating Chinese amateur Li Hang in the third and final tournament of the series. A plucky Li took APTC1 winner Bingham to a final frame decider after leading 3-1 and despite not earning an automatic place in the PTC Finals after losing the final, should still qualify on his position in the APTC order of merit. The Basildon-based player won frame one but Li hit back with three in a row to go within a frame of a surprise win. But Bingham fought back, first taking frame five then winning a close sixth frame before seeing his way through the decider to secure the £10,000 prize and his second title of the season.

He had earlier beaten Tom Ford 4-3 in the semi-finals in Zhengzhou whilst Li had caused a big upset, beating world number 28 Robert Milkins 4-1. Li had beaten another tour player and compatriot Zhang Anda 4-2 in the Quarter-Finals whilst Milkins had whitewashed Cao Yupeng. Bingham had beaten 1997 World Champion Ken Doherty 4-1 in his quarter whilst in the other last eight match, Ford had beaten Chinese amateur Hu Hao.