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Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen came from 5-3 down to beat England’s Jack Lisowski 6-5 in York to set up a UK Championship final meeting against China’s Ding Junhui.<\/span><\/p>\n Allen secured victory on the black as Lisowski failed to take his chances.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n “I just hung in there and stayed strong,” the 36-year-old told BBC Sport.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier, Ding reached his fourth UK Championship decider after a 6-3 win over Tom Ford.<\/span><\/p>\n Lisowski took the opening two frames of his match but Allen levelled it going into the mid-session interval.<\/span><\/p>\n After exchanging frames on the restart, Lisowski capitalised when Allen missed a long pot chance of a red along the top cushion to move 4-3 ahead and then closed out the next frame to move within sight of victory.<\/span><\/p>\n Allen, though, fought back with a 115 clearance to take the ninth frame and then had a break of 74 in the next after being let back to the table.<\/span><\/p>\n In a tense decider, Allen lost position after a break of 36, before Lisowski made 57.<\/span><\/p>\n Allen then left the yellow over the middle, but Lisowski missed the green which proved costly as his opponent cleared up to complete another remarkable turnaround.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier, Ding, 35, looked to be on track for his second whitewash in a row when he led Ford 5-0 after his <\/span>6-0 victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan<\/span><\/a> in Friday’s quarter-final.<\/span><\/p>\n But world number 32 Ford, playing in his first UK semi-final since 2018, fought back. <\/span><\/p>\n The 39-year-old missed a chance to make it 5-4 and it allowed Ding, the champion in 2005, 2009 and 2019, back in to seal victory.<\/span><\/p>\n