UK Championship 2001
UK Championship 2001
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Barbican Center , York |
| Opening: | December 3, 2001 |
| Endgame: | December 16, 2001
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| Winner: |
 Ronnie O'Sullivan
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| Finalist: |
 Ken Doherty
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| Highest Break: | 142 ( Ronnie O'Sullivan )
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The 2001 UK Championship was a snooker tournament that was held from December 3 to 16, 2001 at the Barbican Center in York . After sponsoring Liverpool Victoria ended , the tournament had moved from the south to the north of England after three years. The reigning world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament for the third time after 1993 and 1997. The 10-1 in the final against Ken Doherty was the clearest win in a best-of-19 final at the UK Championship.
Prize money
Although for the third time in its history the tournament did not have a main sponsor, it saw the largest increase in prize money. More than £ 200,000 was additionally distributed, with the prize money alone being rounded up from £ 78,000 to £ 100,000. Reaching the TV stage of the last 32 was worth £ 9,200 instead of £ 4,900 previously. However, only the top 96 received prize money, the losers in the first qualifying round were left empty-handed this time.
| Prize money | |
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| winner | £ 100,000 |
| finalist | £ 54,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 27,250 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 14,500 |
| Round of 16 | £ 11,500 |
| Last 32 | £ 9200 |
| Last 48 | £ 5200 |
| Last 64 | 4,175 pounds |
| Last 80 | £ 2950 |
| Last 96 | £ 2000 |
| Highest break | Last 16: £ 10,000 before: £ 2000 |
| All in all | £ 755,250 |
qualification
As two years earlier, the field of participants was limited to 128. This time, the qualification took place in four rounds from July 23rd to August 19th.
Main tournament
The mode introduced last year with 48 players in the main tournament and a preliminary round was retained. From December 3, the players competed against each other in York.
Round 1
The first round mode has been reduced from best-of-17 to best-of-13.
| game | Result | game | Result | |||||
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| 1 |
Ali Carter
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7 : 4 |
Nigel Bond
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9 |
 Terry Murphy
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7 : 3 |
 Billy Snaddon
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| 2 |
Dave Finbow
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7 : 4 |
David Gray
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10 |
 Dominic Dale
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7 : 4 |
Michael Holt
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| 3 |
Michael Judge
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7 : 1 |
 Shokat Ali
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11 |
Steve Davis
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7 : 6 |
Stuart Pettman
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| 4th |
 Tony Drago
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7 : 5 |
Gary Wilkinson
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12 |
 Marco Fu
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7 : 1 |
Luke Fisher
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| 5 |
Nick Dyson
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7 : 2 |
 Quinten Hann
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13 |
Anthony Hamilton
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7 : 5 |
Antony Bolsover
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| 6th |
John Parrott
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7 : 5 |
Bradley Jones
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14th |
 Robin Hull
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7 : 2 |
Anthony Davies
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| 7th |
Drew Henry
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7 : 1 |
 Alain Robidoux
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15th |
Chris Small
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7 : 6 |
Robert Milkins
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| 8th |
Mark Davis
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7 : 6 |
 James Wattana
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16 |
Joe Perry
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7 : 3 |
Jamie Burnett
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Round 2 to the final
Century breaks
55 century breaks were achieved from the round of the last 48, 15 more than in the previous year, despite the shortening of the opening round to the best of 13. The most successful player was tournament winner Ronnie O'Sullivan , he scored three of his six breaks of 100 or more points in the semi-final game against Mark Williams .
Only the games from the round of 16 counted for the bonus for the highest break in the main round. The breaks from the first and second main round are therefore shown in italics.
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- ↑ a b c d 2001 UK Championship. CueTracker, accessed November 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Results. Snooker Database, accessed November 7, 2015 .
