2015 UK Championship
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| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 24 November – 6 December 2015 |
| Venue | Barbican Centre |
| City | York |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | World Snooker |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £732,000 |
| Winner's share | £150,000 |
| Highest break | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Robertson (AUS) (147) |
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| Champion | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Robertson (AUS) |
| Runner-up | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liang Wenbo (CHN) |
| Score | 10–5 |
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The 2015 UK Championship (officially the 2015 Betway UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 24 November and 6 December 2015 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the fourth ranking event of the 2015/2016 season.[1]
The 2014 champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, who had not played in professional competition since April, decided not to defend his title.[2] He made his debut as a pundit during the tournament, providing in-studio expert analysis for Eurosport alongside Jimmy White.[3]
On the opening day of the tournament, amateur player Adam Duffy defeated world number 9 and two-time UK Champion Ding Junhui 6–2, a result that was described as "one of the biggest upsets in UK Championship history".[4] In the sixth frame of his third-round match against Neil Robertson, Thailand's Thepchaiya Un-Nooh came close to achieving his first maximum break in professional competition, but missed the final black off the spot.[5]
The final between Australia's Neil Robertson and China's Liang Wenbo marked the first time that a British player did not compete in the UK Championship final.[6] In the sixth frame, Robertson made the 115th official maximum break in professional competition, and the first 147 break ever attained in a Triple Crown snooker final, for which he earned £44,000 (a rolling prize of £40,000 for a 147 break, plus the tournament's £4,000 highest break prize).[7] It was the fourth time in a row, that a maximum was made in a UK Championship. Robertson went on to defeat Liang 10–5 to claim his second UK Championship title, and the 11th ranking title of his career.[8]
A record 104 centuries were made during the tournament, including nine from Robertson and eight from Liang.[7]
Prize fund
[edit | edit source]The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
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The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stands at £40,000 (8 ranking events since it was last won, £5,000 added for each ranking event)
Main draw
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Section 2
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Section 3
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Section 4
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Bottom half
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Section 6
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Section 7
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Section 8
[edit | edit source]Finals
[edit | edit source]| Quarter-finals Best of 11 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 19 frames | ||||||||||||
| 80 | England David Grace | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | England Martin Gould | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 80 | England David Grace | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | China Liang Wenbo | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | China Liang Wenbo | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Hong Kong Marco Fu | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | China Liang Wenbo | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Australia Neil Robertson | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Australia Neil Robertson | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Scotland John Higgins | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Australia Neil Robertson | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | England Mark Selby | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | England Matthew Selt | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | England Mark Selby | 6 | ||||||||||||
Final
[edit | edit source]| Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas. Barbican Centre, York, England, 6 December 2015. | ||
| Liang Wenbo (28) File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China |
5–10 | Neil Robertson (3) File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia |
| Afternoon: 40–71, 16–69 (60), 110–0 (110), 6–106 (106), 62–59, 0–151 (147), 33–69 (69), 86–0 (86) Evening: 90–27 (82), 47–78 (78), 15–74, 78–1 (78), 35–70 (56), 55–59, 9–62 | ||
| 110 | Highest break | 147 |
| 1 | Century breaks | 2 |
| 4 | 50+ breaks | 6 |
Century breaks
[edit | edit source]- Source: World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (worldsnookerdata.com)[9]
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