 Complete the following phrase:  Among Ebdons other career highlights was winning the 2006 UK Championship in 2006, beating Stephen Hendry 106 in the final  in doing so, he became only the ninth player to have won both the World and UK Championship. Ebdons shot times were markedly quicker, and this fluency served him well in defeating the defending champion Ding Junhui and John Higgins en route to the final, and compiling eight century-breaks over the course of the tournament. However, he failed to reach a ranking quarter-final in 2007. His poor form continued into 2008; in the Northern Ireland Trophy he lost 05 to Liang Wenbo with a highest break of 32, a result which led to an investigation of suspicious betting patterns by the Gambling Commission. The WPBSA, however, did not launch an investigation. In 2009, Ebdon beat John Higgins 108 to win the China Open. However, in the subsequent 