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Wikipedia / 1997 UK Championship

The 1997 UK Championship (officially the 1997 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Guild Hall in Preston, England. The event started on 12 November 1997 and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 22 and 30 November 1997. This was the last UK championship to be held in Preston, where the event was held since 1978. The following year's competition was held in Bournemouth.

Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Stephen Hendry 10–6 in the final, ending Hendry's run of three successive UK championship wins. O'Sullivan had been the last player other than Hendry to win the event, as a 17-year-old in 1993. The highest TV break of the competition was 137 made by Stephen Lee and it was worth £5,000.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

  • Winner: £75,000

  • Runner-up: £39,000

  • Semi-final: £19,750

  • Quarter-final: £10,800

  • Last 16: £5,500

  • Last 32: £3,450

  • Last 64: £2,900

  • Last 96: £1,400

  • Stage one highest : £1,500

  • Stage two highest : £5,000

  • Total: £440,000

Qualifying

1st Round Best of 11 frames

Main draw

Top half

Bottom half

Final

Century breaks

References