Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan will both be in the UK Championship

UK Championship snooker 2022: Draw, schedule, betting odds, results & live TV coverage details

By Sporting Life

Snooker

Mon November 21, 2022 · 2y ago

The full draw, results, round-ups and TV details for the UK Championship, which takes place from November 12-20 at the Barbican in York.

Snooker's biggest stars including Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump, Mark Selby and Neil Robertson are battling out in the sport's second biggest ranking event, which is televised live by the BBC and Eurosport.

Zhao Xintong is the defending champion while 60-year-old Jimmy White is also in the field after a history-making run through the qualifying rounds.

Here, you can follow how the season's first Triple Crown event unfolds with the draw, results, round ups, and a look back at previous winners.

UK Championship: Sky Bet odds

Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump are joint favourites to win the UK title while Neil Robertson, Mark Selby are the other single figure prices.

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UK Championship: How to watch

Live coverage can be found on BBC television and online via the iPlayer; Eurosport television and online via Eurosport Player.

UK Championship: Daily schedule and results

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Saturday November 19
Afternoon Session (1300 GMT)
TV Coverage: BBC/Eurosport
Semi-Finals (Best of 11 frames)

Tom Ford 3-6 Ding Junhui

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
TV Coverage: BBC/Eurosport
Semi-Finals (Best of 11 frames)

Mark Allen 6-5 Jack Lisowski

Sunday November 20
Afternoon Session (1300 GMT)
TV Coverage: BBC/Eurosport
Final (Best of 19 frames)

Mark Allen 2-6 Ding Junhui

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
TV Coverage: BBC/Eurosport
Final (Best of 19 frames)

Mark Allen 10-7 Ding Junhui

Full results from the UK Championship

FINAL

Mark Allen 10-7 Ding Junhui

SEMI-FINALS

Mark Allen 6-5 Jack Lisowski
Tom Ford 3-6 Ding Junhui

QUARTER-FINALS

Sam Craigie 6-4 Ryan Day
Mark Allen 6-3 Kyren Wilson
Hossein Vafaei 2-6 Jack Lisowski
Shaun Murphy 6-5 Judd Trump
Joe Perry 6-3 Stuart Bingham
Luca Brecel 3-6 Tom Ford
Jamie Clarke 1-6 Ding Junhui
Zhou Yuelong 0-6 Ronnie O'Sullivan

ROUND ONE

Zhao Xintong 2-6 Sam Craigie
Ryan Day 6-2 Jimmy White
Mark Allen 6-4 Jordan Brown
Kyren Wilson 6-3 Matthew Selt
Mark Selby 4-6 Hossein Vafaei
Jack Lisowski 6-1 Xu Si
Shaun Murphy 6-5 David Gilbert
Judd Trump 6-5 Xiao Guodong
Neil Robertson 2-6 Joe Perry
Stuart Bingham 6-2 Liam Highfield
Luca Brecel 6-4 Lyu Haotian
John Higgins 4-6 Tom Ford
Mark Williams 3-6 Jamie Clarke
Barry Hawkins 3-6 Ding Junhui
Yan Bingtao 5-6 Zhou Yuelong
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-2 Matthew Stevens

Prize money

Winner: £250,000
Runner-up: £100,000
Semi-finals: £50,000
Quarter-finals: £25,000
Last 16: £15,000
Last 32: £10,000
High 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 in 2020 to complete one of the most dramatic final victories.

Last year's finalists upset the odds to get that far, with Zhao Xintong overcoming Luca Brecel 10-5.