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2002 PowerHouse UK Championship

Tournament information
Dates 1–15 December 2002 (2002-12-01 – 2002-12-15)
Venue Barbican Centre
City York
Country England
Organisation WPBSA
Format Ranking event
Total prize fund £746,900
Winner's share £100,000
Highest break Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (142)
Final
Champion Mark Williams (WAL)
Runner-up Ken Doherty (IRL)
Score 10–9
← 2001 2003 →

Snooker tournament

The 2002 UK Championship (officially the 2002 PowerHouse UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Barbican Centre in York, England. The event started on 1 December 2002 and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 7 and 15 December 2002. The sponsor for this year's event was Powerhouse.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarter-finals to Drew Henry.

Mark Williams won his second UK title in a classic 10–9 victory against Ken Doherty, who had reached his second UK final in a row. The highest break of the tournament was 142 made by Ronnie O'Sullivan.

2001 champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was the number 1 seed with World Champion Peter Ebdon seeded 2. The remaining places were allocated to players based on the world rankings.

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[1]

Winner: £100,000Runner-up: £54,000Semi-final: £27,250Quarter-final: £14,500Last 16: £11,500Last 32: £9,200Last 48: £5,200Last 64: £4,175 Last 80: £2,950Last 96: £2,000Stage one highest break: £2,000Stage two highest break: £10,000Stage one maximum break: £5,000Stage two maximum break: £25,000Total: £746,900

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Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Stuart Bennett.Barbican Centre, York, England, 15 December 2002.[2]
Ken Doherty (5) Ireland 9–10 Mark Williams (3) Wales
Afternoon: 41–68 (56), 78–8 (55), 0–86 (86), 87–28 (55), 68–66, 45–70, 9–65 (65), 63–76Evening: 62–15 (56), 69–43 (62), 65–29, 0–128 (119), 43–47, 79–1, 0–74 (74), 0–78 (78), 58–14, 79–0 (79), 35–91 (70)
79 Highest break 119
0 Century breaks 1
5 50+ breaks 7
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  1. ^ "Prize Money (Main Tour 2002/2003)". wpbsa.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 10 September 2002. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  2. ^ a b "PowerHouse UK Championship 2002". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  3. ^ "UK Championship full results". BBC Sport. 11 December 2002. Retrieved 10 March 2011.

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