Mark Selby caused another major upset at this year's Snooker Masters at Wembley as he dumped out six-time winner Stephen Hendry.
The Leicester potter, a beaten finalist at last season's World Championship in Sheffield, looked to be on his way home as Scotland's Hendry powered into a 5-3 lead.
But Selby held his nerve under pressure to win three successive frames and earned himself a quarter-final showdown with another Scot, Stephen Maguire, in the quarter-finals of this season's £460,000 event at the Wembley Conference Centre.
"I was surprised how many balls Stephen missed because you just don't expect him to miss at all," Selby said. "He's been a great player, probably the best player to ever come out of snooker, but I'm not complaining. If he's missing balls then he's giving me chances.
"Normally when he's near the finishing line he just runs it (victory) home. He had a great break to go 5-3 up and after that I thought it was more or less over.
"But thankfully I managed to dig in. As far as wins go that has to be up there with the best.
"To come here and beat Stephen, who has won the title here six times before, was a big ask for me. But obviously I've come through the match, so I'm chuffed to bits.
Hendry - the only player to win five successive Masters crowns, won the opening frame before Selby levelled.
Last season's Crucible finalist then went ahead, but Hendry responded by edging the next frame to make it 2-2 at the mid-session interval.
A break of 60 in the first frame following the resumption saw the world number eight edge 3-2 ahead, before Selby wasted a golden opportunity to level matters after running out of position on the final black ball in the sixth frame.
Hendry potted that black to win the frame by a single point, but his opponent rallied to reduce his arrears to just one frame by winning the next.
However, a semi-finalist at last season's Masters, Hendry then moved up a gear and pocketed a cool 105 break to leave himself needing just one frame for victory.
Selby battled back to 5-4 by winning the ninth frame after both players missed earlier chances, before forcing a decider thanks to breaks of 62 and 49 in the next. And the world number 11 completed his great escape by winning the decisive 11th frame thanks largely to a break of 41.
Hendry reflected: "People will read into this result and say 'Hendry's gone', but I'm too good a player for my form not to come back.
"I'm playing so well it's just a matter of time before I'm back. One good win, then I'm back.
"Funnily enough when I needed the chances I didn't really get any at 5-3 up," reflected the 36-time ranking event winner. "I had hundreds of chances the frames before that, but when I really needed the chances I never got them.
"If I was playing like that in practice then I'd give up, but I'm not. It's only a matter of time before it (my form) comes out."