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1989 UK Championship (snooker)

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Venue
  
Guild Hall

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

City
  
Preston

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Dates
  
25 November–3 December 1989

The 1989 StormSeal UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 November and 3 December 1989 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England. The televised stages were shown live on BBC. StormSeal became the new sponsor of the UK Championship. The highest break of the tournament was 138 made by Steve Davis.

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Defending champion Doug Mountjoy lost in the last 64 against rookie player Joe O'Boye. While the 1988 runner-up Stephen Hendry won his first of five UK titles by defeating six times winner Steve Davis 16–12 and it took him on course for the world number on spot in the rankings.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

  • Winner: £100,000
  • Runner-up: £48,000
  • Semi-final: £N/A
  • Quarter-final: £12,000
  • Highest break: £8,000
  • Total: £420,000

    • Main draw


    Round of 32 Best of 17 frames

    Century breaks

  • 141, 135, 123, 120, 112 Stephen Hendry
  • 139 Andrew Cairns
  • 138, 136, 126 Steve Davis
  • 127, 104 Tony Knowles
  • 127 Terry Griffiths
  • 127 John Parrott
  • 114 Neal Foulds
  • 114 Danny Fowler
  • 111 David Taylor
  • 110 Mark Bennett
  • 110 Brady Gollan
  • 108 Mike Hallett
  • 108 Brian Morgan
  • 107 Ian Brumby
  • 105 Stephen Murphy
  • 103 Darren Morgan
  • 102 Alain Robidoux
  • 101 Joe Johnson
  • 101 Barry West
  • 100 Mark Johnston-Allen

    • References

    1989 UK Championship (snooker) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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