2022 UK Championship
| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 12–20 November 2022 |
| Venue | York Barbican |
| City | York |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | World Snooker Tour |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £1,205,000 |
| Winner's share | £250,000 |
| Defending champion |  Zhao Xintong (CHN) |
← 2021 | |
The 2022 UK Championship (officially the 2022 Cazoo UK Championship) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament taking place from 12 to 20 November 2022 at the York Barbican, in York, England. The event is the fifth ranking event and the first of the Triple Crown Series in the 2022–23 snooker season. It will be sponsored by car retail company Cazoo and broadcast in the UK by the BBC and Eurosport.[1][2][3]
China's Zhao Xintong is the defending champion, having defeated Luca Brecel 10–5 in the 2021 UK Championship.[4]
The format of the tournament has been changed to identically match the format used by the World Snooker Championship, with the exception of match length. The top 16 players, including the defending champion, are to be seeded through to the final venue, where they will be joined by 16 qualifiers. The qualifying round takes place immediately before the televised stages.[5]
Prize fund
- Winner: £250,000
- Runner-up: £100,000
- Semi-final: £50,000
- Quarter-final: £25,000
- Last 16: £15,000
- Last 32: £10,000
- Last 48: £7,500
- Last 80: £5,000
- Last 112: £2,500
- Highest break: £15,000
- Total: £1,205,000
Main draw
The draw for the main stage of the tournament is shown below. Players in bold denote match winners.
| Last 32 Best of 11 frames | Last 16 Best of 11 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 11 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 19 frames | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Zhao Xintong (CHN)
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| 16 |  Ryan Day (WAL)
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| 9 |  Mark Allen (NIR)
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| 8 |  Kyren Wilson (ENG)
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| 5 | Mark Selby (ENG)
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| 12 | Jack Lisowski (ENG)
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| 13 | Shaun Murphy (ENG)
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| 4 | Judd Trump (ENG)
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| 3 |  Neil Robertson (AUS)
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| 14 | Stuart Bingham (ENG)
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| 11 |  Luca Brecel (BEL)
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| 6 |  John Higgins (SCO)
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| 7 | Mark Williams (WAL)
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| 10 | Barry Hawkins (ENG)
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| 15 | Yan Bingtao (CHN)
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| 2 | Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
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Final
| Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: York Barbican, York, England, 20 November 2022 | ||
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| Afternoon: Evening: | ||
| Highest break | ||
| Century breaks | ||
| 50+ breaks | ||
Qualifying draw
References
- ^ "2022 Cazoo UK Championship". World Snooker.
- ^ "Cazoo UK Championship 2022". York Barbican.
- ^ "2022 UK Snooker Championship | Snooker events in 2022".
- ^ "Zhao beats Brecel to win UK Championship". BBC Sport.
- ^ "New Format for Snooker's Cazoo UK Championship". 26 April 2022.