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2006 UK Championship (snooker)

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Dates
  
4–17 December 2006

City
  
York

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Barbican Centre

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

The 2006 Maplin UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 17 December 2006 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the 30th edition of the event and was part of the 2006/2007 season.

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Peter Ebdon won in the final 10–6 against Stephen Hendry, becoming the ninth man in history to win both the world championship and UK Championship in his career, and the first man to beat Hendry in the final of both tournaments. This was also the last of Hendry's record ten UK Championship finals and the last major ranking final of his career.

The tournament was also notable for Ronnie O'Sullivan's forfeiture of his quarter-final match against Hendry, which Hendry was leading 4-1 at the time. O'Sullivan was eventually fined £20,000.

Prize fund

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

Qualifying

The qualifying took place between 14 and 19 November at Pontin's, Prestatyn.

References

2006 UK Championship (snooker) Wikipedia


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