UK Championship snooker 2021: Scores, schedule, results, draw, order of play from tournament in York

ByEurosport

Updated 03/12/2021 at 18:57 GMT

Ronnie O'Sullivan has assumed the position of favourite at the 2021 UK Championship, with big names like Judd Trump, Shaun Murphy, Mark Selby and Neil Robertson already out in a tournament which has supplied a steady flow of big shocks. Stream the UK Championship and much more top snooker action live and on demand on discovery+.

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The 2021 UK Championship has been full of surprises - and no little controversy - after some big names fell in the opening rounds.

Shaun Murphy infamously said he felt "hard done by” after suffering a shock first round defeat to an amateur he felt should not be involved in the tournament. The 2005 world champion was beaten 6-5 by China’s Si Jiahui, a player who was effectively brought in to make up the numbers in the 128-player event. Murphy was never able to recover from a terrible start, falling 5-1 behind before forcing a deciding frame which he could not take. Losing was not the issue for ‘The Magician’ but being beaten by an amateur was a big problem for him.

"I am going to sound like a grumpy old man but that young man shouldn't be in the tournament," Murphy told BBC Radio 5 Live. “I feel extremely hard done by that I have lost to someone who shouldn't even be in the building. I don't know why we as a sport allow amateurs to compete in professional tournaments. This is our livelihood. This is our living. We are self-employed individuals and not contracted sportsmen. We don't play for a team. The other 127 runners and riders in the tournament, it is their livelihood too. It is wrong, in my opinion, to walk into somebody who is not playing with the same pressures and concerns I am. He played like a man who does not have a care in the world because he does not have a care in the world. It is not fair, it is not right."

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Murphy's comments sparked a wide debate. Judd Trump didn't agree, saying the UK Championships needed the magic of the FA Cup, but Murphy was supported by Mark Selby, who fell to his own shock defeat, albeit to a player with considerable expertise, Hossein Vafaei.

Reigning champion Neil Robertson was, like Murphy, also dispatched by an amateur as he lost 6-2 to John Astley. John Higgins was another high profile victim, falling on Monday to Zhao Xintong. Trump also failed to make the last sixteen, beaten by Matthew Selt after a flat performance.

That leaves Ronnie O'Sullivan as the leading contender to walk away with the famous trophy.

Click here for the results page for the quarter-finals onwards.

Schedule and results

First round

November 23

14:30 - Andrew Higginson 4-6 Mark Joyce
14:30 - Anthony McGill 6-0 Iulian Boiko
14:30 - David Grace 6-2 Peter Devlin
14:30 - Zhou Yuelong 6-1 Chen Zifan
14:30 - Kyren Wilson 6-2 Soheil Vahedi
14:30 - Jak Jones 6-4 Oliver Lines
14:30 - Lu Ning 3-6 Wu Yize
14:30 - Dominic Dale 6-4 Ashley Carty
19:30 - Scott Donaldson 4-6 Farakh Ajaib
19:30 - Mark Davis 4-6 Ashley Hugill
19:30 - Li Hang 6-2 Mitchell Mann
19:30 - Tom Ford 6-1 Andrew Pagett
19:30 - Stephen Maguire 6-3 Sanderson Lam
19:30 - Chris Wakelin 6-2 Jamie Clarke
19:30 - Shaun Murphy 5-6 Si Jiahui
19:30 - John Higgins 6-1 Michael Georgiou

November 24

09:30 - Ricky Walden 6-4 Craig Steadman
09:30 - Gary Wilson 6-2 Ian Burns
09:30 - Liam Highfield 6-3 Jamie Wilson
09:30 - Noppon Saengkham 6-2 Aaron Hill
09:30 - Stuart Carrington 6-1 Zhao Jianbo
09:30 - Nigel Bond 4-6 Robbie Williams
09:30 - David Gilbert 6-1 Alfie Burden
09:30 - Xiao Guodong 6-2 Zhang Jiankang
14:30 - Anthony Hamilton 6-4 Allan Taylor
14:30 - Mark Williams 6-3 Lei Peifan
14:30 - Matthew Selt 6-5 Chang Bingyu
14:30 - Barry Hawkins 6-1 Reanne Evans
14:30 - Jamie Jones 1-6 Cao Yupeng
14:30 - Alexander Ursenbacher 6-5 Ben Hancorn
14:30 - Ding Junhui 6-2 Zhang Anda
14:30 - Mark Selby 6-2 Ross Muir
19:30 - Matthew Stevens 5-6 Hammad Miah
19:30 - Mark King 6-2 Jackson Page
19:30 - Kurt Maflin 3-6 Gerard Greene
19:30 - Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-3 Michael White
19:30 - Sunny Akani 6-2 Steven Hallworth
19:30 - Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 6-1 Stephen Hendry
19:30 - Elliot Slessor 5-6 Fan Zhengyi
19:30 - Jack Lisowski 6-0 Sean Maddocks

November 25

09:30 - Tian Pengfei 6-5 Simon Lichtenberg
09:30 - Ben Woollaston 5-3 Rory McLeod
09:30 - Joe Perry 6-1 Fraser Patrick
09:30 - Lyu Haotian 2-6 Gao Yang
09:30 - Martin Gould 6-1 Barry Pinches
09:30 - Joe O'Connor 6-4 Fergal O'Brien
09:30 - Liang Wenbo 5-6 Andy Hicks
09:30 - Zhao Xintong 6-4 Yuan SiJun
14:30 - Neil Robertson 2-6 John J Astley
14:30 - Jordan Brown 6-4 Duane Jones
14:30 - Luca Brecel 6-2 Xu Si
14:30 - Yan Bingtao 6-0 Ng On Yee
14:30 - Ali Carter 6-3 Jimmy White
14:30 - Jimmy Robertson 6-5 Bai Langning
14:30 - Graeme Dott 6-3 Jamie O'Neill
14:30 - Martin O'Donnell 6-3 Lukas Kleckers
19:30 - Stuart Bingham 6-5 Dean Young
19:30 - Judd Trump 6-1 David Lilley
19:30 - Mark Allen 6-2 Michael Judge
19:30 - Michael Holt 6-4 Zak Surety
19:30 - Sam Craigie 6-3 Ken Doherty
19:30 - Ryan Day 3-6 Peter Lines
19:30 - Robert Milkins 6-4 Louis Heathcote
19:30 - Hossein Vafaei 6-4 Pang Junxu

Second round

November 27

14:00 - Kyren Wilson 6-0 Jak Jones
14:00 - Wu Yize 6-4 Hammad Miah
14:00 - Yan Bingtao 3-6 Ben Woollaston
14:00 - Robbie Williams 2-6 Ronnie O'Sullivan
14:00 - Joe Perry 2-6 Matthew Selt
14:00 - Michael Holt 5-6 Andy Hicks
14:00 - Dominic Dale 6-4 Si Jiahui
14:00 - Martin O'Donnell 4-6 Jack Lisowski
20:00 - John Astley 4-6 Mark Joyce
20:00 - Gary Wilson 4-6 Liam Highfield
20:00 - Noppon Saengkham 6-3 Ali Carter
20:00 - Mark King 6-2 Gerard Greene
20:00 - Barry Hawkins 6-1 Gao Yang
20:00 - Alexander Ursenbacher 3-6 David Gilbert
20:00 - Joe O'Connor 4-6 Mark Allen
20:00 - John Higgins 6-3 Akani Songsermsawad

November 28

13:00 - Li Hang 3-6 Ricky Walden
13:00 - Tian Pengfei 1-6 Stephen Maguire
13:00 - Judd Trump 6-3 Chris Wakelin
13:00 - Martin Gould 3-6 Cao Yupeng
13:00 - Zhao Xintong 6-5 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
13:00 - Ding Jinhui 3-6 Sam Craigie
13:00 - Peter Lines 6-3 Fan Zhengyi
13:00 - Robert Milkins 2-6 Xiao Guodong
19:00 - Farakh Ajaib 1-6 Jordan Brown
19:00 - Anthony McGill 6-4 David Grace
19:00 - Zhou Yuelong 6-2 Ashley Hugill
19:00 - Anthony Hamilton 6-5 Mark Williams
19:00 - Luca Brecel 6-5 Tom Ford
19:00 - Stuart Carrington 2-6 Stuart Bingham
19:00 - Jimmy Robertson 2-6 Graeme Dott
19:00 - Hossein Vafael 6-2 Mark Selby

Third Round

November 29

13:00 - Mark King 3-6 Ronnie O'Sullivan
13:00 - Barry Hawkins 6-2 Cao Yupeng
13:00 - Andy Hicks 6-5 Dominic Dale
13:00 - John Higgins 5-6 Zhao Xintong
19:00 - Kyren Wilson 6-3 Wu Yize
19:00 - Ben Woollaston 6-4 Liam Highfield
19:00 - Noppon Saengkham 6-5 Stuart Bingham
19:00 - Jack Lisowski 6-2 Graeme Dott

November 30

13:00 - Anthony McGill 6-5 Zhou Yuelong
13:00 - Judd Trump 3-6 Matthew Selt
13:00 - David Gilbert 6-5 Mark Allen
13:00 - Sam Craigie 3-6 Peter Lines
19:00 - Mark Joyce 3-6 Jordan Brown
19:00 - Ricky Walden 4-6 Anthony Hamilton
19:00 - Luca Brecel 6-0 Stephen Maguire
19:00 - Xiao Guodong 2-6 Hossein Vafaei

Fourth Round

December 1

13:00 - Noppon Saengkham 3-6 Ronnie O'Sullivan
13:00 - Zhao Xintong 6-4 Peter Lines
19:00 - Jordan Brown 3-6 Anthony McGill
19:00 - Kyren Wilson 6-3 Ben Woollaston

December 2

13:00 - Anthony Hamilton 1-6 Luca Brecel
13:00 - Jack Lisowski 6-4 Hossein Vafaei
19:00 - Matthew Selt 3-6 Barry Hawkins
19:00 - David Gilbert 5-6 Andy Hicks

Quarter-finals

December 3

13:00 - Anthony McGill 2-6 Luca Brecel
13:00 - Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-6 Kyren Wilson
19:00 - Barry Hawkins vs Andy Hicks
19:00 - Jack Lisowski vs Zhao Xintong

When is it?

The UK Championship will run from November 23 to December 5.

Where is it being held?

The tournament is being staged at the York Barbican.

How to watch live

You can stream the 2021 UK Championship live and on demand on discovery+

You can also watch all the action live via Eurosport and at eurosport.co.uk

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