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UK Championship draw, results, schedule, how to watch on TV and more

By Sporting Life

Snooker

Sun December 05, 2021 · 3y ago

The UK Championship runs from November 23 to December 5 at the York Barbican, and we have details of the draw, schedule, results and more.

UK Championship Schedule & Results

Sunday December 5
Final (Best of 19 frames)
Afternoon session (1300)
TV: Eurosport & BBC

Luca Brecel 3-5 Zhao Xintong

Evening session (1900)

Luca Brecel 5-10 Zhao Xintong

UK Championship: Round-by-round results

FINAL

Luca Brecel 5-10 Zhao Xintong

SEMI FINALS

Luca Brecel 6-4 Kyren Wilson
Barry Hawkins 1-6 Zhao Xintong

QUARTER FINALS

Anthony McGill 2-6 Luca Brecel
Kyren Wilson 6-5 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Barry Hawkins 6-1 Andy Hicks
Zhao Xintong 6-2 Jack Lisowski

ROUND FOUR

Jordan Brown 3-6 Anthony McGill
Anthony Hamilton 1-6 Luca Brecel
Kyren Wilson 6-3 Ben Woollaston
Noppon Saengkham 3-6 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Matthew Selt 3-6 Barry Hawkins
David Gilbert 5-6 Andy Hicks
Zhao Xintong 6-4 Peter Lines
Jack Lisowski 6-4 Hossein Vafaei

ROUND THREE

Mark Joyce 3-6 Jordan Brown
Anthony McGill 6-5 Zhou Yuelong
Ricky Walden 4-6 Anthony Hamilton
Luca Brecel 6-0 Stephen Maguire
Kyren Wilson 6-3 Wu Yize
Ben Woollaston 6-4 Liam Highfield
Noppon Saengkham 6-5 Stuart Bingham
Mark King 3-6 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Judd Trump 3-6 Matthew Selt
Barry Hawkins 6-2 Cao Yupeng
David Gilbert 6-5 Mark Allen
Andy Hicks 6-5 Dominic Dale
John Higgins 5-6 Zhao Xintong
Sam Craigie 3-6 Peter Lines
Graeme Dott 2-6 Jack Lisowski
Xiao Guodong 2-6 Hossein Vafaei

ROUND TWO

John J Astley 4-6 Mark Joyce
Farakh Ajaib 1-6 Jordan Brown
Anthony McGill 6-4 David Grace
Zhou Yuelong 6-2 Ashley Hugill
Li Hang 3-6 Ricky Walden
Anthony Hamilton 6-5 Mark Williams
Luca Brecel 6-5 Tom Ford
Tian Pengfei 1-6 Stephen Maguire
Kyren Wilson 6-0 Jak Jones
Wu Yize 6-4 Hammad Miah
Yan Bingtao 3-6 Ben Woollaston
Gary Wilson 4-6 Liam Highfield
Noppon Saengkham 6-3 Ali Carter
Stuart Carrington 2-6 Stuart Bingham
Mark King 6-2 Gerard Greene
Robbie Williams 2-6 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Judd Trump 6-3 Chris Wakelin
Joe Perry 2-6 Matthew Selt
Barry Hawkins 6-1 Gao Yang
Martin Gould 3-6 Cao Yupeng
Alex Ursenbacher 3-6 David Gilbert
Joe O'Connor 4-6 Mark Allen
Michael Holt 5-6 Andy Hicks
Dominic Dale 6-4 Si Jiahui
John Higgins 6-3 Sunny Akani
Zhao Xintong 6-5 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ding Junhui 3-6 Sam Craigie
Peter Lines 6-3 Fan Zhengyi
Jimmy Robertson 2-6 Graeme Dott
Martin O'Donnell 4-6 Jack Lisowski
Robert Milkins 2-6 Xiao Guodong
Hossein Vafaei 6-2 Mark Selby

ROUND ONE

Quarter one

Neil Robertson 2-6 John J Astley
Andrew Higginson 4-6 Mark Joyce
Scott Donaldson 4-6 Farakh Ajaib
Jordan Brown 6-4 Duane Jones
Anthony McGill 6-0 Iulian Boiko
David Grace 6-2 Peter Devlin
Zhou Yuelong 6-1 Chen Zifan
Mark Davis 4-6 Ashley Hugill
Li Hang 6-3 Mitchell Mann
Ricky Walden 6-4 Craig Steadman
Anthony Hamilton 6-4 Allan Taylor
Mark Williams 6-3 Lei Peifan
Luca Brecel 6-2 Xu Si
Tom Ford 6-1 Andrew Pagett
Tian Pengfei 6-5 Simon Lichtenberg
Stephen Maguire 6-3 Sanderson Lam

Quarter two

Kyren Wilson 6-2 Soheil Vahedi
Jak Jones 6-4 Oliver Lines
Lu Ning 3-6 Wu Yize
Matthew Stevens 5-6 Hammad Miah
Yan Bingtao 6-0 Ng On Yee
Ben Woollaston 6-4 Rory McLeod
Gary Wilson 6-2 Ian Burns
Liam Highfield 6-3 Jamie Wilson
Noppon Saengkham 6-2 Aaron Hill
Ali Carter 6-3 Jimmy White
Stuart Carrington 6-1 Zhao Jianbo
Stuart Bingham 6-5 Dean Young
Mark King 6-2 Jackson Page
Kurt Maflin 3-6 Gerard Greene
Nigel Bond 4-6 Robbie Williams
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-3 Michael White

Quarter three

Judd Trump 6-1 David Lilley
Chris Wakelin 6-2 Jamie Clarke
Joe Perry 6-1 Fraser Patrick
Matthew Selt 6-5 Chang Bingyu
Barry Hawkins 6-1 Reanne Evans
Lyu Haotian 2-6 Gao Yang
Martin Gould 6-1 Barry Pinches
Jamie Jones 1-6 Cao Yupeng
Alex Ursenbacher 6-5 Ben Hancorn
David Gilbert 6-1 Alfie Burden
Joe O'Connor 6-4 Fergal O'Brien
Mark Allen 6-2 Michael Judge
Michael Holt 6-4 Zak Surety
Liang Wenbo 5-6 Andy Hicks
Dominic Dale 6-4 Ashley Carty
Shaun Murphy 5-6 Si Jiahui

Quarter four

John Higgins 6-1 Michael Georgiou
Sunny Akani 6-2 Steven Hallworth
Zhao Xintong 6-4 Yuan Sijun
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 6-1 Stephen Hendry
Ding Junhui 6-2 Zhang Anda
Sam Craigie 6-3 Ken Doherty
Ryan Day 3-6 Peter Lines
Elliot Slessor 5-6 Fan Zhengyi
Jimmy Robertson 6-5 Lee Walker
Graeme Dott 6-3 Jamie O'Neill
Martin O'Donnell 6-3 Lukas Kleckers
Jack Lisowski 6-0 Sean Maddocks
Robert Milkins 6-4 Louis Heathcote
Xiao Guodong 6-2 Zhang Jiankang
Hossein Vafaei 6-4 Pang Junxu
Mark Selby 6-2 Ross Muir

UK Championship: Pre-tournament odds

Judd Trump - 3/1
Mark Selby - 5/1
Neil Robertson - 5/1
Ronnie O'Sullivan - 11/2
John Higgins - 12/1

Others available on Sky Bet

UK Championship: How to watch

BBC television and online via the iPlayer; Eurosport television and online via Eurosport Player.

UK Championship prize money

Winner: £200,000
Runner-up: £80,000
Semi-final: £40,000
Quarter-final: £24,500
Last 16: £17,000
Last 32: £12,000
Last 64: £6,500
Highest break: £15,000

UK Championship History

The UK Championship is one of snooker's most prestigious tournaments and is widely considered the second biggest ranking event behind the World Championship at the Crucible.

Along with the World Championship and the Masters, the UK Championship makes up snooker's Triple Crown and any player winning all three tournaments during their careers becomes an undisputed legend of the sport.

The UK Championship was first staged in 1977 in Blackpool, when Ireland's Patsy Fagan defeated Doug Mountjoy, but has since been held in Preston, Bournemouth, Telford and York's Barbican Centre, where the event currently takes place.

Steve Davis dominated the early years of the event with six titles between 1980 and 1987 before Stephen Hendry took a firm grip on the game with five championships of his own - although he could not stop John Parrott and Jimmy White lifting the trophy in 1991 and 1992.

Ronnie O'Sullivan famously first triumphed in 1993 at the age of just 17, making him the youngest winner of any ranking snooker event, and he also made history in 2001 when thrashing Ken Doherty 10-1 to record the final's biggest margin of victory. Three years later Stephen Maguire equalled that record against David Gray.

Scotland's John Higgins is among the tournament's most successful players with three UK Championship crowns while Welshmen Mark Williams (twice) and Matthew Stevens are also on the roll of honour alongside English quartet Peter Ebdon, Shaun Murphy, Judd Trump and Mark Selby.

In 2005, teenager Ding Junhui became the first player from outside Britain and Ireland to win the event with a 10-6 victory over a 48-year-old Steve Davis, who was competing in his first UK Championship final since 1990, and the Chinese star repeated the feat in 2009 against John Higgins.

Australia's Neil Robertson became the second non-European winner of the tournament in 2013 when he defeated Mark Selby and he surely won't be the last as the contingent of talented snooker players from around the globe continues to grow.

In 2014 O'Sullivan won the UK Championship for the fifth time by beating Judd Trump 10-9 in a thriller although the Rocket decided not to defend his title in 2015 as Robertson went on to defeat Liang Wenbo in the final.

In 2016, Mark Selby became only the ninth player in the history of the event to lift the trophy more than once before O'Sullivan won back-t0-back titles in 2017 and 2018 to become the most successful player in the tournament's history.

Junhui picked up his third UK crown in 2019, defeating O'Sullivan along the way, before Robertson overcame Trump 10-9 at around 1am last year to complete one of the most dramatic final victories.