Snooker’s williamhill.com UK Championship will be back at the York Barbican later this year – and tickets for one of the sport’s most important tournaments are now on sale.
Category: UK Championship
Untangling The 2013/14 Calendar
During the recent World Championship qualifiers, World Snooker published the provisional calendar for the 2013/14 season, which as in 2012/13, sees a number of significant changes as the professional circuit continues to expand.
Click below for a summary of the main changes, together with a ‘cut-off by cut-off’ round up of how the calendar shapes up…
Selby Sinks Murphy For UK Crown
Congratulations to returning world number one Mark Selby, who has tonight defeated Shaun Murphy 10-6 to lift the biggest title of his career so far, the 2012 UK Championship in York. As well as the trophy, Mark takes home the first prize of £125,000 and heads into 2013 with a line drawn firmly under what has at times been a difficult year.
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Selby Through To Face Murphy In UK Final
The 2012 UK Championship has been notable for its comebacks, but tonight there was to be no fairytale for Mark Davis as Leicester’s Mark Selby earned a comfortable 9-4 victory to not only book his place in a first UK Championship final, but also ensure that he will return to the top of the world rankings after this tournament, displacing Judd Trump.
Click below for my thoughts ahead of what promises to be a thrilling final, as well as view videos from both Shaun and Mark’s post-semi-final press conferences…
Selby 8/11 Favourite To Win williamhill.com UK Championship
Mark Selby returned to world number one by making through to the final of the williamhill.com UK Championship and the tournament sponsors make the Jester 8/11 favourite to win the match.
Shaun Murphy, whose performance at the end of his match against Ali Carter was sensational is the 11/10 slight outsider.
“The whole week has been absolutely fantastic and we definitely have a final worthy of the action that has preceded it,” said William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly.
Williamhill.com UK Championship:8/11 Mark Selby; 11/10 Shaun Murphy
Murphy Favourite For williamhill.com UK Championship After 12/1 Comeback
Shaun Murphy made it through to the final of the williamhill.com UK Championship in sensational circumstances and at one point drifted to 12/1 to win the match with the sponsors (25/1 to win the tournament). The biggest bet placed on him to win the match from 8-4 down was just £20. Carter was a whopping 1/40 to win the match when he was 8-4 up.
He has become the first odds on favourite of the week to win the tournament with Selby 11/8 and Davis 7/1.
“We thought that there was no way back for Murphy and our punters certainly felt the same way,” said William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly. “Now that he is in the final, with the other semi still to play, he is now the clear favourite to win the tournament.”
Tournament winner: 10/11 Murphy; 11/8 Selby; 7/1 Davis
Selby Celebrates Robertson Fightback
MARK Selby admits he cannot continue to start slowly if he is to fulfil his dream of winning the UK Championship.
Calm Davis Celebrates ‘Brilliant Win’
MARK Davis continues to prove life begins at 40 after John Higgins’ conqueror marched into the semi-finals of the UK Championship.