1997 UK Championship


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.

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

1st Round Best of 11 frames
John Read 6–3 Michael Judge
Sean Storey 6–1 Euan Henderson
Jamie Burnett 6–1 Craig MacGillivray
Troy Shaw 6–4 Dave Finbow
Tony Jones 6–3 John Lardner
Paul Davies 6–4 Steve Judd
Jason Prince 6–4 Matthew Couch
David Gray 6–5 Graeme Dott
Quinten Hann 6–3 Joe Johnson
Martin Dziewialtowski 6–3 Anthony Davies
Dean Reynolds 6–3 Stephen O'Connor
Shokat Ali 6–4 Karl Payne
Ian McCulloch 6–5 Jason Ferguson
Matthew Stevens 6–3 Jamie Woodman
Dennis Taylor 6–2 Wayne Brown
Jonathan Birch 6–0 Mark Gray
Gary Ponting 6–4 Nick Pearce
Dene O'Kane 6–2 Stuart Pettman
Lee Richardson 6–5 Stefan Mazrocis
Gerard Greene 6–5 Ian Brumby
Wayne Jones 6–4 Leigh Griffin
Willie Thorne 6–2 Peter McCullagh
Chris Scanlon 6–4 Joe Perry
Marcus Campbell 6–5 Tony Chappel
Paul Wykes 6–5 Mark Davis
Peter Lines 6–5 Jimmy Michie
Bradley Jones 6–5 Drew Henry
Dominic Dale 6–5 Alfie Burden
Paul Hunter 6–3 Nick Walker
Mark Bennett 6–4 Darren Clarke
Karl Burrows 6–4 David Roe
Karl Broughton 6–2 Lee Walker

Century breaks