Vintage UK

Here you have a brief overview of the history of the UK Championship, with a selection of the best videos.

Esta fue la primera final de UK para un jovencísimo John Higgins contra todo un experimentado Stephen Hendry, four UK treasured already under his belt.
Hendry showed how decider played a big tournament and took his last tournament title UK. Higgins learned a lot from this decider; given his youth not concentrated enough to open the decisive frame and paid dearly.

Steve Davis, the player who dominated the early 80, He won his sixth and final UK in a thrilling final with compatriot Jimmy White English, coming first to the final of the prestigious tournament. Davis treasures under his belt staggering 10 UK end of six titles, four of them ranking.

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Alex Higgins could not miss our look at the history of UK, being that “The hurricane” treasures 4 end, 3 of them with Steve Davis and the great Terry Griffiths. Higgins won the coveted title against Davis in his third appearance in the final (second straight after losing the decider against Griffiths). The following year make it to their third consecutive final and, once again, with the then almighty Steve Davis, who did not give many options to Hurricane Higgins snooker playing a serious and effective.

We continue with Alex Higgins in the year of naranjito and do something very good… Get comfortable and enjoy a true genius snooker.

Steve Davis drew to a close tenth of the UK and placed in solitary Sthepen beating Hendry with nine finals to his credit. Hendry, the following season, he equaled the record of Davis ten finals but failed to match him in titles (6 títulos Davis), as they lost the final with Don Peter Ebdon, the same executioner in the final of the world championship 2002, and he deprived him of his eighth world championship title. Come up with the protagonist of the moment Ding Junhui: China's great feeling we had already given many details of his great play in previous tournaments but not in a large; Ding not only won the tournament but did so quite easily and would repeat in editing 2009 against another legend of snooker, John Higgins.

We return to the decade of the 90 with the king of the decade: Hendry Scottish Sthepen, who managed to string together five finals (of 93 al 97) Tournament consecutive UK (UK) with defeats in the first (93) last (97) its enormous feat. His executioner was a very young Ronnie O'Sullivan, he won by a score of 10 a 6 both times. Hendry reached the end of the year 95 Peter Ebdon against a young man who was run over by the Scottish meter machine balls; Ebdon could only win three frames of the final and could see from a privileged place artwork Scottish to close the match and win the title.

Now it is the turn of two of the fastest in the west. We started with the tornado Tony Drago, we dropped the fastest hundred in the history of the UK edition 1996 with a tough opponent to peel, Scotsman John Higgins would end up winning the game and reaching their first final of the UK. Enjoy something that hardly happen again.

We continue with Ronnie. We leave you a ONE FOUR SEVEN Rocket in last year's UK. Ronnie, besides the fantastic 147, He took the title and won his fifth tournament in five finals, which it makes us understand the reliability of the rocket in late majors; Another striking fact is the interval of the first title and the last: 21 years, there is nothing.

And we continue with Ronnie. Possibly these 10 minutes of play that gave us Rocket are one of the most spectacular things in the history of UK.
Note that the 147 He gave way to the final tournament, a final that did not have much history due to corrective game imposed by the Scottish Sthepen Rocket Maguire, he could only win two frames when the match and the title were sentenced, because Ronnie marked a 8 a 0 in the first session and went out just two frames of victory (10 a 2) in the last session.

Finale with two hard peel players in contention of this type (remember that Marco Fu is able to win the final ranking Ronnie himself playing one on one). Shaun took his first and only title in the tournament in the UK in a more than thrilling decider; one Marco Fu with a look of not believing what he saw after the whimsical pink ball that put him in a more difficult position to claim his first big tournament and UK in particular.