DRAW: UK Championship 2018

The UK Championship draw is out! Sort of.

According to a tweet by Mike Dunn (below), the draw has been published. This is always an interesting tournament for anoraks (because of numbers and seedings and things – especially for me anyway). The UK Championship is also interesting for many reasons. It being a Triple Crown Event. It is the final tournament were the Top 16 is decided to participate in the 2019 Dafabet Masters. Many ranking points to be won. Let’s hope the draw is correct!

Uk Draw 2018 pic.twitter.com/zAevg9SzOS

— Mike Dunn (@mikedunn147) November 19, 2018

Here is the draw. More analysis of the UK Championship will be coming up soon!

Section 1

Ronnie O’Sullivan (1) vs. Luke Simmonds (a) (128)

Yuan Sijun (64) vs. Ken Doherty (65)

Zhou Yuelong (32) vs. Soheil Vahedi (97)

Mark Davis (33) vs. Rod Lawler (96)

Marco Fu (16) vs. Hammad Miah (113)

Michael Georgiou (49) vs. Luo Honghao (80)

Jack Lisowski (17) vs. Zhang Jiankang (112)

Fergal O’Brien (48) vs. Mei Xiwen (81)

Section 2

Lyu Haotian (41) vs. Tian Pengfei (88)

Jimmy Robertson (24) vs. Jordan Brown (105)

Martin O’Donnell (56) vs. Xu Si (73)

Shaun Murphy (9) vs. Chen Feilong (120)

Ben Woollaston (40) vs. Alfie Burden (89)

Xiao Guodong (25) vs. Sean O’Sullivan (104)

Matt Selt (57) vs. Zhang Yong (72)

Ding Junhui (8) vs. Adam Stefanow (121)

Section 3

Judd Trump (5) vs. David Lilley (a) (124)

Dominic Dale (60) vs. Gerard Greene (69)

Mark King (28) vs. Elliot Slessor (101)

Li Hang (37) vs. Lee Walker (92)

Ryan Day (12) vs. Joe O’Connor (117)

Andrew Higginson (53) vs. Nigel Bond (76)

Joe Perry (21) vs. John Astley (108)

Michael Holt (44) vs. Chen Zifan (85)

Section 4

Mark Joyce (45) vs. Niu Zhuang (84)

Anthony McGill (20) vs. Lu Ning (109)

Liam Highfield (52) vs. Robin Hull (77)

Luca Brecel (13) vs. Fan Zhengyi (116)

Tom Ford (36) vs. Craig Steadman (93)

Robert Milkins (29) vs. Sanderson Lam (100)

Alan McManus (61) vs. Alexander Ursenbacher (68)

John Higgins (4) vs. Dechawat Poomjaeng (a) (125)

Section 5

Mark Selby (3) vs. James Cahill (a) (126)

Sunny Akani (62) vs. Eden Sharav (67)

Ricky Walden (30) vs. Jak Jones (99)

Michael White (35) vs. Joe Swail (94)

Stuart Bingham (14) vs. James Wattana (115)

Kurt Maflin (51) vs. Zhang Anda (78)

David Gilbert (19) vs. Ashley Carty (110)

Peter Ebdon (46) vs. Chris Totten (83)

Section 6

Stuart Carrington (43) vs. Paul Davison (86)

Yan Bingtao (22) vs. Lukas Kleckers (107)

Mike Dunn (54) vs. Allan Taylor (75)

Kyren Wilson (11) vs. Andy Lee (118)

Gary Wilson (38) vs. Billy Joe Castle (91)

Liang Wenbo (27) vs. Sam Baird (102)

Robbie Williams (59) vs. Ian Burns (70)

Barry Hawkins (6) vs. Jamie Clarke (123)

Section 7

Mark Allen (7) vs. Basem Eltahhan (122)

Rory McLeod (58) vs. Peter Lines (71)

Martin Gould (26) vs. Harvey Chandler (103)

Hossein Vafaei (39) vs. Ashley Hugill (90)

Neil Robertson (10) vs. Kishan Hirani (119)

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (55) vs. Jimmy White (74)

Graeme Dott (23) vs. Oliver Lines (106)

Matthew Stevens (42) vs. Ross Muir (87)

Section 8

Chris Wakelin (47) vs. Duane Jones (82)

Ali Carter (18) vs. Thor Chuan Leong (111)

Scott Donaldson (50) vs. Li Yuan (79)

Stephen Maguire (15) vs. Simon Lichtenberg (114)

Noppon Saengkham (34) vs. Hamza Akbar (95)

Anthony Hamilton (31) vs. Rod Lawler (98)

Daniel Wells (63) vs. Zhao Xintong (66)

Mark Williams (2) vs. Adam Duffy (a) (127)

The UK Championship will take place between Tuesday 27th November to Sunday 9th December at the York Barbican.

Thanks to @wildey_1 the draw for the UK Championship (27 Nov – 9 Dec) is now available: https://t.co/fELnBoY0GD #snooker #UKChampionship

— snooker.org (@snookerorg) November 19, 2018