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Ronnie O'Sullivan was at his brilliant best as he claimed a fourth Maplin UK Championship with a stunning 10-2 victory over Stephen Maguire.

Resuming 8-0 ahead from the afternoon session, the two-time world champion took less than an hour to wrap up the two frames required for victory at the Telford International Centre with an awesome display.

Maguire restored some pride with two half-centuries in the ninth and 11th frames, but it was a case of when rather than if as O'Sullivan recorded his two biggest breaks of the match to complete a victory which restores him to provisional world number one position.

Afterwards, O'Sullivan said: "I played great.

"I won some frames where I got in first and I also won the frames where he made 20 or 30 but got unlucky and I capitalised.

"When I got on top I knew the pressure was there because you sense when someone's cueing well, and he sensed I was playing well. It really adds a sense of pressure to each stroke you make, and I was very aware of that.

"Every time he missed I knew that I had to punish, because if I didn't punish him he would have put me away because he's a great player.

"I've always rated him, I said when he first beat me this kid's a bit special."

O'Sullivan showed no signs of a hangover from the stunning 147 break in the 9-8 victory over Mark Selby which clinched his final berth, making a break of 54 from his very first shot before sealing the opening frame with another run of 66.

In contrast, Maguire, who defeated Shaun Murphy in the last four, began nervously and was given little chance to make his mark as 'The Rocket' took the second with 33 and 35 breaks.

Maguire, the reigning Northern Ireland Trophy champion, looked the favourite to take the third as he moved into a 43-point lead, but again he was punished for overcutting a red to the middle pocket and O'Sullivan cleaned up with a 78 clearance.

The 2004 UK winner was given a great chance to get a frame on the board in the fourth when the Chigwell cueman inadvertently potted a red when attempting to split the pack, but another missed red to the centre was ruthlessly punished by the crowd favourite's 66 break.

The last time O'Sullivan lifted the UK title was in 2001, when he swept aside Ken Doherty 10-1, and this contest was similarly one-sided.

He picked up where he left off after the mid-session interval and a run of 53 was enough to clinch a scrappy fifth.

There was no such trouble in frame six, however, and he needed no second invitation after the Scot hit the jaws with his first green, a mesmerising break of 78 in just over seven minutes putting him 6-0 ahead.

Maguire found himself in among the balls after a scrappy start to the next, but clearly shaken, he underhit a routine red with the rest on 24, allowing O'Sullivan yet another half-century.

The break came to an end with a missed plant on 52, but when an increasingly ragged Maguire missed a long red, there were no second chances as the 32-year-old sealed a seventh straight frame.

Runs of 40 and 30 concluded an afternoon to remember as O'Sullivan secured an opening-session clean sweep to leave Maguire on the brink.

But the Scot prevented a possible whitewash with a 99 break - then the biggest of the contest - to restore some pride.

Normal service was resumed in the 10th, however, as O'Sullivan swiftly seized that honour by recording a 126 - the only surprise being how long it had taken to arrive.

A 57 break from Maguire in the 11th delayed the inevitable but O'Sullivan brought the audience to their feet with a run of 94 to cap a magnificent victory.

Maguire admitted he could see the writing on the wall from as early as the afternoon mid-session interval.

He said: "The only thing I was thinking was try your hardest to get a frame.

"From as early as 4-0 I was thinking about the whitewash because I could just see the way the frames were going and the way I felt."