UK Championship 1998
UK Championship 1998
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | International Center, Bournemouth |
| Opening: | November 16, 1998 |
| Endgame: | November 29, 1998
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| Winner: |
 John Higgins
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| Finalist: |
 Matthew Stevens
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| Highest Break: | 141 ( John Higgins )
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The UK Championship 1998 was a snooker tournament that was played from November 16-29, 1998. For the first time in 20 years, the tournament no longer took place in Preston , but moved to the International Center in the southern English coastal town of Bournemouth . The Scot John Higgins , world champion and world number one, won his first title of the 1998/99 season with a 10-6 win over Matthew Stevens . For the Welshman it was the first ranking final of his career.
Prize money
There was a little more than £ 12,000 more this year than the year before. With the exception of minor adjustments to the middle and lower places, the additional money went to places 97 to 134. In the previous year there had been only 96 participants.
| Prize money | |
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| winner | £ 75,000 |
| finalist | £ 39,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 19,750 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 10,800 |
| Round of 16 | 5525 pounds |
| Last 32 | £ 3,450 |
| Last 64 | £ 2950 |
| Last 96 | 1460 pounds |
| Last 134 | 235 pounds |
| Highest break | Main Tournament: £ 5000 Qualifying: £ 1500 |
| All in all | £ 452,670 |
qualification
After the radical cut in the previous year, slightly more than twice as many players were admitted to the tournament this year. The 196 participants were still significantly fewer than the well over 400 participants in previous years. Nevertheless, the qualification dragged on from July 29th to September 3rd again over a month until the participants of the main tournament had been determined in four rounds.
Main tournament
From November 16, the main tournament was played with 64 players.
kl. - without a fight
Century breaks
With 34 century breaks , unusually few were achieved this year, after around 50 had recently been common. After all, John Higgins had a good result with five breaks of 100 points or more.
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- ↑ a b c d 1983 UK Championship. CueTracker, accessed October 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Results. Snooker Database, accessed October 27, 2015 .
