2016 World Snooker Championship final. In the other semifinal, Mark Selby and Marco Fu set a new record for the longest frame of snooker ever played at the Crucible, at 76 minutes 11 seconds. After beating Robert Milkins 10–6 in the first round, Sam Baird 13–11 in the second round, Kyren Wilson 13–8 in the quarterfinals, and Fu 17–15 in the semifinals, Selby defeated Ding 18–14 in the final to claim his second world title, becoming the 13th player to win the World Snooker Championship more than once, and the sixth player to win more than one world title at the Crucible. A record-equaling
Mark Selby second of the season after Robertson), and also the twelfth player to win the World and UK Championship double in their career. In winning the world title, Selby also retook the world number one spot. In the first ranking event of the season, the Wuxi Classic, Selby lost 3–5 to Liang Wenbo in the last 32. He won the minor-ranking Riga Open, defeating Mark Allen 4–3 in the final, but lost 5–6 to Allen in the semi-final of the ranking Shanghai Masters. He suffered a surprise early exit in the last 128 of the ranking International Championship when 19-year-old tour