The 2000 UK Championship (officially the 2000 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship) was a professional
ranking
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items, often recorded in a list, such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than", or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak ...
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ...
tournament that took place at the
Bournemouth International Centre
The Bournemouth International Centre (commonly known as the BIC ) in Bournemouth, Dorset, was opened in September 1984. It is one of the largest venues for conferences, exhibitions, entertainment and events in southern England. Additionally, it ...
in
Bournemouth
Bournemouth ( ) is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. At the 2021 census, the built-up area had a population of 196,455, making it the largest ...
, England. The event started on 18 November 2000 and the televised stages were shown on
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
between 25 November and 3 December 2000.
Nick Dyson
Nick Dyson (born 19 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour over sixteen seasons between 1989 and 2006.
Career
Born in 1969, Dyson turned professional in 1989. In his first season on the m ...
made a
maximum break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a onefourseven) is the highest possible in snooker in normal circumstances and is a special type of . A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, fo ...
in the qualifying stage against
Robert Milkins
Robert Milkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since regaining a tour card in 1998.
Milkins reached a career high rank of 12 in 2014 and 2023, ...
.
John Higgins
John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...
won in the final 10–4 against
Mark Williams.
This was to be the last UK Championship to be held in Bournemouth, where the event was hosted since the
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
. From
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
onwards it was hosted in
York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...
.
Tournament summary
Defending champion and
World Champion
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...
Mark Williams was the number 1 seed. The remaining places were allocated to players based on the
world rankings.
Prize money
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
* Winner:
£78,000
* Runner-up: £41,000
* Semi-finalists: £20,600
* Quarter-finalists: £11,200
* Last 16: £5,800
* Last 32: £4,900
* Last 64: £3,125
* Last 96: £1,655
* Last 128: £1,150
* Highest break (televised): £5,000
* Highest break (untelevised): £1,520
*
Maximum break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a onefourseven) is the highest possible in snooker in normal circumstances and is a special type of . A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, fo ...
: £20,000
* Total: £540,000
Main draw
Final
Qualifying
Round of 160 Best of 9 frames
Mehmet Husnu
Mehmet Husnu (born 25 July 1972) is a Cypriot former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1972, Husnu turned professional in 1991, becoming the first Cypriot professional snooker player in the history of the game.
Husnu's career highl ...
5–1
Sean Storey
Sean Storey (born 19 August 1971 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England) is a former English professional snooker player.
His best ranking performance to date came in the World Championship in 2003, where he defeated Joe Perry before bowing ...
Wayne Jones 5–2
Ryan Day
Mike Hallett
Mike Hallett (born 6 July 1959) is an English former professional snooker player and commentator. He won the 1989 Hong Kong Open.
Career
Hallett was born in Grimsby on 6 July 1959. Having won the British Junior Snooker Championship, national ...
5–3
Lee Spick
Lee Spick (25 April 1980 – 26 January 2015) was an English professional snooker player. A former English under-15 champion, he reached the last 48 of ranking events on five occasions, including twice in the World Championship.
Career
He reac ...
Barry Pinches
Barry Pinches (born 13 July 1970 in Catton, Norwich) is an English former professional snooker player, recognisable for his bright and flamboyant waistcoats, which usually feature the yellow and green colours of Norwich City F.C. He is a form ...
5–4
Joe Jogia
Shailesh "Joe" Jogia (born 13 November 1975) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Jogia reached the last 32 of four ranking events, the first two being the 2004 Grand Prix and British Open. He won the English Open title in ...
Nick Dyson
Nick Dyson (born 19 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour over sixteen seasons between 1989 and 2006.
Career
Born in 1969, Dyson turned professional in 1989. In his first season on the m ...
5–0
Alan Burnett
Alan Burnett (; born February 17, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American television writer-producer particularly associated with Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera Productions, DC Comics, and Walt Disney television animation.
He has had a h ...
Darryn Walker
Darren is a masculine given name of uncertain etymological origins. Some theories state that it originated from an Anglicisation of the Irish first name Darragh or Dáire, meaning "oak tree". According to other sources, it is thought to come from ...
5–4
Jeff Cundy
Jeff Cundy (born 1 March 1969) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
1991 to 1997
Cundy turned professional in 1991, playing and losing his first match against Tim Norris 2–5 in the Dubai Classic of that year. He recorded ...
Simon Bedford
Simon Bedford (born 8 February 1976) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Bedford's best performance in a professional ranking event was to qualify for the 1998 World Championship; he beat Gary Wilkinson 10–9, before l ...
w/o–w/d
Da Hailin
Somporn Kanthawung Somporn is a Thai given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Somporn Juangroongruangkit (born 1950/51), Thai businesswoman
* Somporn On-Chim (born 1942), Thai sports shooter
* Somporn Saekhow (1940–2002), Thai farmer
* Somporn Wannapra ...
5–3
Stephen Maguire
Stephen Maguire (born 13 March 1981) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won six major ranking tournaments, including the 2004 UK Championship, and has twice since reached the finals of that event. Maguire turned professional in ...
Stuart Mann 5–0
Lasse Munstermann
Richard King 5–4
Scott MacKenzie
Barry Mapstone Barry may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Barry (name), including lists of people with the given name, nickname or surname, as well as fictional characters with the given name
* Dancing Barry, stage name of Barry Richards (born c. 195 ...
5–3
Matt Wilson
Patrick Delsemme 5–3
Neil Robertson
Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He ...
Graham Lee 5–4
Bob Chaperon
Robert Chaperon (born 18 May 1958) is a Canadians, Canadian retired professional snooker and billiards player.
Career
Chaperon was born on 18 May 1958. He played snooker on the professional tour from 1984 to 1995, and in the 1998/99, 2000/01, 200 ...
Anthony Bolsover 5–1
Mark Bennett
Joe Delaney
Joe Alton Delaney (; October 30, 1958 – June 29, 1983) was an American professional football player who was a running back for two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Delaney set ...
5–3
Wayne Saidler
Wayne may refer to:
People with the given name and surname
* Wayne (given name)
* Wayne (surname)
Geographical
Places with name ''Wayne'' may take their name from a person with that surname; the most famous such person was Gen. "Mad" Antho ...
Philip Williams 5–4
Charoen Phorat
Jason Barton 5–3
Chris Shade
Stefan Mazrocis
Stefan Mazrocis (born 18 April 1967) is a Dutch-English former professional snooker player. He was born of Latvian and English parentage, and spent his early life in Leicester, England.
Career
Mazrocis turned professional in 1991. In 1995 ...
5–4
Eddie Manning
Eddie may refer to:
*Eddie (text editor), a text editor originally for BeOS and now ported to Linux and Mac OS X
*Eddie (crater), a crater on Mars
*Eddie (given name)
*The Eddie, a surfing tournament
Arts and entertainment
* ''Eddie'' (film), a 1 ...
Craig Harrison 5–1
Craig Roper
Craig may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Craig (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Craig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
*Clan Craig, a Scottish clan
Places
United States ...
Hugh Abernethy
Hugh Abernethy (born 23 December 1967) is a Scottish former professional snooker player.
Career
Early years
Born in Scotland in 1967, Abernethy turned professional in 1994. In his first season, he beat Richy McDonald, Steve Lemmens and Karl ...
5–2
Karl Burrows
Karl Burrows (born 17 February 1969) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1969, Burrows turned professional in 1991. His best run in a ranking tournament was reaching the last 16, which he achieved at both the 1996 ...
James Reynolds 5–3
Paul McPhilips
Paul may refer to:
People
* Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people
* Paul (surname), a list of people
* Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament
* Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo P ...
Jason Weston
Jason Weston (born 11 January 1971 in Portsmouth) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour between 1991 and 1997 and intermittently until 2003, at one point being ranked the world number 90.
After enterin ...
5–1
Mario Wehrmann
Mario (; ) is a character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the ''Mario'' franchise, a recurring character in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo. ...
Mark Selby
Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Ranked List of world number one snooker players, world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 24 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all ...
5–3 Ian Brumby
Bjorn Haneveer
Bjorn Haneveer (born 4 September 1976 in) is a Belgian snooker player and commentator. Haneveer, formerly a professional competitor, now plays at semi-professional level and also commentates on snooker matches for Dutch Eurosport.
Career
A six ...
5–2
Peter McCullagh
Peter McCullagh (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.
Education
McCullagh is from Plumbridge, ...
Stuart Reardon
Stuart Reardon (born October, 13 1981) is an English fitness model and former professional rugby league footballer who most recently played for the North Wales Crusaders. He played as a , or .
Playing career
Reardon turned professional from ...
5–1
Farhan Mirza
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, ...
5–4
Colm Gilcreest
Colm Gilcreest (born 7 May 1974) is an Irish former professional snooker player, whose highest professional ranking was 84th.
Career history
At the 2000 World Snooker Championship Gilcreest won six matches, against Philip Seaton, Simon Bedfor ...
Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open.
Career
Early years
After some succ ...
5–4
Noppadon Noppachorn
Noppadon Noppachorn (; born 24 February 1968) is a former professional snooker player from Thailand who played a number of matches on the world snooker tour between 1992 and 2002.
He played as part of the 1996 Snooker World Cup Thailand team wi ...
Robin Hull
Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) is a Finnish former professional snooker player.
For some time, he was the sole Nordic countries, Nordic player on the game's Snooker world rankings, main tour. He is known as a solid -builder, having compiled o ...
5–3
Gareth Chilcott
Gareth James Chilcott (born 20 November 1956 in Bristol) is a former rugby union player, who played at prop for Bath and England.
He made his England debut against Australia in 1984. He toured with the British Lions in Australia in 1989, toget ...
David McLellan 5–4
Lee Richardson
David McDonnell 5–3
Nick Terry
Nick Terry (born 15 September 1967) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Terry turned professional in 1988, by defeating Maurice Parkin 10-5 in a play-off, after finishing third in the pro-ticket series. He lost his first ...
Munraj Pal
Munraj Pal (born 21 April 1976) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Pal turned professional in 1995, but fell off the tour two years later in 1997. He re-qualified during the 1997/1998 season, but lost his professional st ...
5–1
Tony Knowles
Troy Shaw
Troy Shaw (born 6 October 1969) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Competing on the main tour from 1991, Shaw won the second leg of minor ranking tournament the Strachan Challenge in 1993, beating Nigel Bond in the fi ...
5–1
Craig Butler
Craig Butler (born December 19, 1988) is a former professional Canadian football defensive back and special teams coordinator and assistant defensive backs coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played for Sai ...
Round of 128 Best of 9 frames
Mehmet Husnu
Mehmet Husnu (born 25 July 1972) is a Cypriot former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1972, Husnu turned professional in 1991, becoming the first Cypriot professional snooker player in the history of the game.
Husnu's career highl ...
5–3
Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...
Leigh Griffin
Leigh may refer to:
Places In England
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough of Wigan
** Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
* Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Dorset
* Leigh, Gloucestershire
* Leigh, Kent
* Leigh, Staffo ...
5–1
Wayne Jones
Mike Hallett
Mike Hallett (born 6 July 1959) is an English former professional snooker player and commentator. He won the 1989 Hong Kong Open.
Career
Hallett was born in Grimsby on 6 July 1959. Having won the British Junior Snooker Championship, national ...
5–0
Stephen O'Connor
Barry Pinches
Barry Pinches (born 13 July 1970 in Catton, Norwich) is an English former professional snooker player, recognisable for his bright and flamboyant waistcoats, which usually feature the yellow and green colours of Norwich City F.C. He is a form ...
5–2
Mick Price
Nick Dyson
Nick Dyson (born 19 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour over sixteen seasons between 1989 and 2006.
Career
Born in 1969, Dyson turned professional in 1989. In his first season on the m ...
5–3
Robert Milkins
Robert Milkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since regaining a tour card in 1998.
Milkins reached a career high rank of 12 in 2014 and 2023, ...
Darryn Walker
Darren is a masculine given name of uncertain etymological origins. Some theories state that it originated from an Anglicisation of the Irish first name Darragh or Dáire, meaning "oak tree". According to other sources, it is thought to come from ...
5–0
Craig MacGillivray
Mark Gray 5–4
Simon Bedford
Simon Bedford (born 8 February 1976) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Bedford's best performance in a professional ranking event was to qualify for the 1998 World Championship; he beat Gary Wilkinson 10–9, before l ...
Somporn Kanthawung Somporn is a Thai given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Somporn Juangroongruangkit (born 1950/51), Thai businesswoman
* Somporn On-Chim (born 1942), Thai sports shooter
* Somporn Saekhow (1940–2002), Thai farmer
* Somporn Wannapra ...
5–0 Steve Judd
Mike Dunn 5–2
Stuart Mann
Richard King 5–4
Dean Reynolds
Dean Reynolds (born 11 January 1963 in Grimsby) is an English former professional snooker player whose career spanned twenty years from 1981 to 2001.
Early and personal life
From Grimsby, Reynolds is a left-handed player and started playing ...
Adrian Gunnell
Adrian Gunnell (born 24 August 1972) is an English former professional snooker player from Telford. He reached the last-16 in four world ranking events (three in Asia, in three different seasons, and at the 2008 Grand Prix).
While practising ...
5–2
Barry Mapstone Barry may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Barry (name), including lists of people with the given name, nickname or surname, as well as fictional characters with the given name
* Dancing Barry, stage name of Barry Richards (born c. 195 ...
Patrick Delsemme 5–1
Phaitoon Phonbun
Phaitoon Phonbun (; born 5 October 1975) is a Thai former professional snooker player.
Career
Phaitoon Phonbun was born on 5 October 1975. He received a wildcard entry to the 1995 Thailand Open, where he recorded a 5–2 defeat of Anthony Dav ...
Neal Foulds
Neal Foulds (born 13 July 1963) is an English former professional snooker player and six-time tournament winner, including the 1986 International Open, the 1988 Dubai Masters and the 1992 Scottish Masters, as well as the invitational Pot Bla ...
5–1
Graham Lee
Tony Jones 5–4
Anthony Bolsover
Shokat Ali
Shokat Ali (born 4 March 1970) is a snooker player who has represented Pakistan in international tournaments. 5–2
Joe Delaney
Joe Alton Delaney (; October 30, 1958 – June 29, 1983) was an American professional football player who was a running back for two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Delaney set ...
Philip Williams 5–0
Leo Fernandez
Leo Fernandez (born 5 July 1976 in Limerick) is an Irish former professional snooker player.
Snooker career
Fernandez's best ranking event progress was reaching the last 16 of the 2003 Welsh Open, defeating opponents including fellow Irishman F ...
Jason Barton 5–0
Dene O'Kane
Dene O'Kane (24 February 1963 – 14 May 2024) was a New Zealand professional snooker player.
Career
O'Kane won the 1980 New Zealand Amateur Championship, and represented New Zealand at the 1982 IBSF World Snooker Championship, winning six ...
Mark Fenton
Mark Fenton (November 11, 1866 – July 29, 1925) was an American stage performer and motion-picture character actor who appeared in at least 80 films between 1914 and 1925.
Fenton had considerable experience performing on stage prior to ...
5–2
Stefan Mazrocis
Stefan Mazrocis (born 18 April 1967) is a Dutch-English former professional snooker player. He was born of Latvian and English parentage, and spent his early life in Leicester, England.
Career
Mazrocis turned professional in 1991. In 1995 ...
Craig Harrison w/o–w/d
Martin Clark
Jason Prince
Jason Prince (born 17 June 1970 from Derry) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player.
Career
Born on 17 June 1970, Prince turned professional in 1990, having defeated Fred Davis 10–5 to qualify from the professional play-offs. ...
5–2
Hugh Abernethy
Hugh Abernethy (born 23 December 1967) is a Scottish former professional snooker player.
Career
Early years
Born in Scotland in 1967, Abernethy turned professional in 1994. In his first season, he beat Richy McDonald, Steve Lemmens and Karl ...
James Reynolds 5–1 Darren Clarke
Jason Weston
Jason Weston (born 11 January 1971 in Portsmouth) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour between 1991 and 1997 and intermittently until 2003, at one point being ranked the world number 90.
After enterin ...
5–1
Tony Chappel
Tony Chappel (born 28 May 1960) is a former Welsh professional snooker player, whose career spanned seventeen years from 1984 to 2001.
Career
Tony Chappel was born in Wales, on 28 May 1960. He started playing snooker aged 14. He reached the fi ...
Kristján Helgason
Kristján Helgason (born 27 March 1974) is an Icelandic former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1974, Helgason turned professional in 1995. In 1998, he reached the last 48 at the Irish Open, losing 3–5 to Billy Snaddon, but made ...
5–4
Mark Selby
Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Ranked List of world number one snooker players, world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 24 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all ...
Bjorn Haneveer
Bjorn Haneveer (born 4 September 1976 in) is a Belgian snooker player and commentator. Haneveer, formerly a professional competitor, now plays at semi-professional level and also commentates on snooker matches for Dutch Eurosport.
Career
A six ...
5–3
Nick Walker
Stuart Reardon
Stuart Reardon (born October, 13 1981) is an English fitness model and former professional rugby league footballer who most recently played for the North Wales Crusaders. He played as a , or .
Playing career
Reardon turned professional from ...
5–2
Wayne Brown
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, ...
5–3
John Lardner
John Lardner (born 10 May 1972 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a former professional snooker player. His best performance came in the 1999 World Snooker Championship, where he reached the last 32. He reached a peak world ranking of 67th in 2000–0 ...
Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open.
Career
Early years
After some succ ...
5–1
Willie Thorne
William Joseph Thorne (4 March 195417 June 2020) was an English professional snooker player. He won one ranking title, the 1985 Classic. He also reached the final of the 1985 UK Championship, losing 16–14 to Steve Davis after leading 13– ...
Robin Hull
Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) is a Finnish former professional snooker player.
For some time, he was the sole Nordic countries, Nordic player on the game's Snooker world rankings, main tour. He is known as a solid -builder, having compiled o ...
5–2
Paul Sweeny
Paul may refer to:
People
* Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people
* Paul (surname), a list of people
* Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament
* Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo P ...
David McLellan 5–2
Mark Davis
Nick Pearce
Nicholas Pearce, known as Nick Pearce (born 25 January 1967) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Pearce was born in 1967, and first attracted public attention at the age of sixteen when he appeared on ''Junior Pot Black' ...
5–3 David McDonnell
Karl Broughton
Karl Broughton (born 26 June 1971) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Broughton was born in 1971, turning professional in 1991. He entered the top 64 in the world rankings at the end of the 1995/1996 season, finishing i ...
5–3
Munraj Pal
Munraj Pal (born 21 April 1976) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Pal turned professional in 1995, but fell off the tour two years later in 1997. He re-qualified during the 1997/1998 season, but lost his professional st ...
Martin Dziewialtowski 5–3
Troy Shaw
Troy Shaw (born 6 October 1969) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Competing on the main tour from 1991, Shaw won the second leg of minor ranking tournament the Strachan Challenge in 1993, beating Nigel Bond in the fi ...
Round of 96 Best of 9 frames
Mehmet Husnu
Mehmet Husnu (born 25 July 1972) is a Cypriot former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1972, Husnu turned professional in 1991, becoming the first Cypriot professional snooker player in the history of the game.
Husnu's career highl ...
5–3
Ian McCulloch
Rod Lawler
Rod Lawler (born 12 July 1971) is an English retired professional snooker player. He is noted for his slow playing style which gave rise to his nickname, "Rod the Plod".
After turning professional in 1990, Lawler has reached one ranking tourna ...
5–4
Leigh Griffin
Leigh may refer to:
Places In England
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough of Wigan
** Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
* Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Dorset
* Leigh, Gloucestershire
* Leigh, Kent
* Leigh, Staffo ...
Jamie Burnett
Jamie Burnett (born 16 September 1975) is a Scottish former professional snooker player from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
A journeyman, Burnett was ranked within the world's top 64 players for 20 consecutive years between 1996 and 2016, reachi ...
5–4
Mike Hallett
Mike Hallett (born 6 July 1959) is an English former professional snooker player and commentator. He won the 1989 Hong Kong Open.
Career
Hallett was born in Grimsby on 6 July 1959. Having won the British Junior Snooker Championship, national ...
Barry Pinches
Barry Pinches (born 13 July 1970 in Catton, Norwich) is an English former professional snooker player, recognisable for his bright and flamboyant waistcoats, which usually feature the yellow and green colours of Norwich City F.C. He is a form ...
5–3
Lee Walker
Lee Walker (born 11 February 1976) is a Welsh retired professional snooker player and former World Seniors Champion. He is an official WPBSA coach and is the long-term coach of Mark Williams.
Career
After turning professional in 1994 at the ag ...
Nick Dyson
Nick Dyson (born 19 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour over sixteen seasons between 1989 and 2006.
Career
Born in 1969, Dyson turned professional in 1989. In his first season on the m ...
5–1
Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute ...
Peter Lines
Peter Lines (born 11 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He has reached the semi-finals of one ranking tournament, the 2018 Paul Hunter Classic. He reached his highest ranking, 42nd in the world, in 1999. He is the ...
5–2
Darryn Walker
Darren is a masculine given name of uncertain etymological origins. Some theories state that it originated from an Anglicisation of the Irish first name Darragh or Dáire, meaning "oak tree". According to other sources, it is thought to come from ...
Mark Gray 5–3
Joe Johnson
Alfie Burden
Alfred Burden (born 14 December 1976) is an English former professional snooker player from London. He first turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest world ranking of 38th in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. His best results in ...
5–3
Somporn Kanthawung Somporn is a Thai given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Somporn Juangroongruangkit (born 1950/51), Thai businesswoman
* Somporn On-Chim (born 1942), Thai sports shooter
* Somporn Saekhow (1940–2002), Thai farmer
* Somporn Wannapra ...
Anthony Davies
Anthony Davies (born 2 December 1969) is a Welsh former professional snooker player, who competed on the professional circuit from 1991 to 2005.
Davies started playing snooker aged 12. He made his first maximum break aged 18.
His best perfor ...
5–2
Mike Dunn
Gerard Greene
Gerard Eamonn Greene (born 12 November 1973 in Chatham, Kent) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player. He represents Northern Ireland in international events, as his parents are from Belfast.
Greene has enjoyed moderate success ...
5–2
Richard King
Adrian Gunnell
Adrian Gunnell (born 24 August 1972) is an English former professional snooker player from Telford. He reached the last-16 in four world ranking events (three in Asia, in three different seasons, and at the 2008 Grand Prix).
While practising ...
5–4
Steve James
Patrick Delsemme 5–4
Alain Robidoux
Alain Robidoux (born July 25, 1960) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Robidoux played on the sport's main tour from 1987 to 2004 and reached the final of the 1996 German Open, which he lost 7–9 to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Career
R ...
Neal Foulds
Neal Foulds (born 13 July 1963) is an English former professional snooker player and six-time tournament winner, including the 1986 International Open, the 1988 Dubai Masters and the 1992 Scottish Masters, as well as the invitational Pot Bla ...
5–2
Gary Ponting
Gary Ponting (born 17 January 1975) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Ponting was born in 1975, and turned professional in 1993. He reached the last 32 of the 1994 World Championship, losing 2–10 to Willie Thorne, a ...
Tony Jones 5–3
Stuart Pettman
Stuart Pettman (born 24 April 1975) is an English former professional snooker player. The Preston native qualified for the World Championship three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2010. He beat 2005 champion Shaun Murphy in qualifying to reach the 20 ...
Shokat Ali
Shokat Ali (born 4 March 1970) is a snooker player who has represented Pakistan in international tournaments. 5–4
Michael Holt
Jimmy Michie
Jimmy Michie (pronounced "Mickey"; born 4 August 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Pontefract, Yorkshire, and a two-time WPBSA ranking tournament semi-finalist, who has also reached the World Snooker Championship. Mich ...
5–4
Philip Williams
Bradley Jones 5–3
Jason Barton
Mark Fenton
Mark Fenton (November 11, 1866 – July 29, 1925) was an American stage performer and motion-picture character actor who appeared in at least 80 films between 1914 and 1925.
Fenton had considerable experience performing on stage prior to ...
5–4
John Read
Michael Judge
Michael Judge (born 12 June 1975 in Dublin) is a former professional snooker player from Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest ranking, 24th, f ...
5–2
Craig Harrison
Jason Prince
Jason Prince (born 17 June 1970 from Derry) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player.
Career
Born on 17 June 1970, Prince turned professional in 1990, having defeated Fred Davis 10–5 to qualify from the professional play-offs. ...
5–1
Jason Ferguson
Jonathan Birch 5–2
James Reynolds
Paul Wykes
Paul Wykes (born 15 April 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Bournemouth, Dorset. He spent 16 years on the circuit and remained in the world's top 64 for 13 years.
Career
Wykes turned professional in 1991 and achieved ...
5–1
Jason Weston
Jason Weston (born 11 January 1971 in Portsmouth) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour between 1991 and 1997 and intermittently until 2003, at one point being ranked the world number 90.
After enterin ...
Kristján Helgason
Kristján Helgason (born 27 March 1974) is an Icelandic former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1974, Helgason turned professional in 1995. In 1998, he reached the last 48 at the Irish Open, losing 3–5 to Billy Snaddon, but made ...
5–3
Euan Henderson
Bjorn Haneveer
Bjorn Haneveer (born 4 September 1976 in) is a Belgian snooker player and commentator. Haneveer, formerly a professional competitor, now plays at semi-professional level and also commentates on snooker matches for Dutch Eurosport.
Career
A six ...
5–3
Marcus Campbell
Marcus Campbell (born 22 September 1972) is a Scottish former professional snooker player. He was ranked within the world's top 64 for 15 consecutive seasons.
Career
Campbell is most famous for whitewashing Stephen Hendry 9–0 in the 1998 L ...
Stuart Bingham
Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner.
Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his pro ...
5–2
Stuart Reardon
Stuart Reardon (born October, 13 1981) is an English fitness model and former professional rugby league footballer who most recently played for the North Wales Crusaders. He played as a , or .
Playing career
Reardon turned professional from ...
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, ...
5–3
Andy Hicks
Andrew Hicks (born 10 August 1973) is an English retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Cream of Devon", Hicks was a semi-finalist at both the World Snooker Championship and UK Championship in 1995, and the same stage at four other ...
Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open.
Career
Early years
After some succ ...
5–4
David Roe
David Roe (born 11 September 1965) is a former English professional snooker player, and a four-time ranking tournament quarter-finalist.
Career
Roe was born on 11 September 1965 in Derby. He began his professional career for the 1986–87 sno ...
Patrick Wallace
Patrick Wallace (born 20 September 1969) is a former professional snooker player from Dungannon in Northern Ireland. During his career, which lasted seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he won two non-ranking titles and was a quarter-finalist in ...
5–1
Robin Hull
Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) is a Finnish former professional snooker player.
For some time, he was the sole Nordic countries, Nordic player on the game's Snooker world rankings, main tour. He is known as a solid -builder, having compiled o ...
Dave Finbow
David Finbow (born 27 February 1968) is an English former professional snooker player from Worcester.
Career
In his career, he managed to beat players such as Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ken Doherty and James Wattana. Originally a soccer player, he was ...
5–3
David McLellan
Nick Pearce
Nicholas Pearce, known as Nick Pearce (born 25 January 1967) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Pearce was born in 1967, and first attracted public attention at the age of sixteen when he appeared on ''Junior Pot Black' ...
5–4
Matthew Couch
Matthew Couch (born 30 June 1974) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
During a professional career lasting from 1992 to 2012, Couch had little success in ranking events, although he reached the quarter-finals of the UK Ch ...
David Gray 5–2
Karl Broughton
Karl Broughton (born 26 June 1971) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Broughton was born in 1971, turning professional in 1991. He entered the top 64 in the world rankings at the end of the 1995/1996 season, finishing i ...
Gary Wilkinson 5–2
Martin Dziewialtowski
Round of 64 Best of 11 frames
Rod Lawler
Rod Lawler (born 12 July 1971) is an English retired professional snooker player. He is noted for his slow playing style which gave rise to his nickname, "Rod the Plod".
After turning professional in 1990, Lawler has reached one ranking tourna ...
6–5
Mehmet Husnu
Mehmet Husnu (born 25 July 1972) is a Cypriot former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1972, Husnu turned professional in 1991, becoming the first Cypriot professional snooker player in the history of the game.
Husnu's career highl ...
Barry Pinches
Barry Pinches (born 13 July 1970 in Catton, Norwich) is an English former professional snooker player, recognisable for his bright and flamboyant waistcoats, which usually feature the yellow and green colours of Norwich City F.C. He is a form ...
6–4
Jamie Burnett
Jamie Burnett (born 16 September 1975) is a Scottish former professional snooker player from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
A journeyman, Burnett was ranked within the world's top 64 players for 20 consecutive years between 1996 and 2016, reachi ...
Nick Dyson
Nick Dyson (born 19 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour over sixteen seasons between 1989 and 2006.
Career
Born in 1969, Dyson turned professional in 1989. In his first season on the m ...
6–4
Peter Lines
Peter Lines (born 11 December 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. He has reached the semi-finals of one ranking tournament, the 2018 Paul Hunter Classic. He reached his highest ranking, 42nd in the world, in 1999. He is the ...
Mark Gray 6–2
Alfie Burden
Alfred Burden (born 14 December 1976) is an English former professional snooker player from London. He first turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest world ranking of 38th in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. His best results in ...
Gerard Greene
Gerard Eamonn Greene (born 12 November 1973 in Chatham, Kent) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player. He represents Northern Ireland in international events, as his parents are from Belfast.
Greene has enjoyed moderate success ...
6–5
Anthony Davies
Anthony Davies (born 2 December 1969) is a Welsh former professional snooker player, who competed on the professional circuit from 1991 to 2005.
Davies started playing snooker aged 12. He made his first maximum break aged 18.
His best perfor ...
Adrian Gunnell
Adrian Gunnell (born 24 August 1972) is an English former professional snooker player from Telford. He reached the last-16 in four world ranking events (three in Asia, in three different seasons, and at the 2008 Grand Prix).
While practising ...
6–4
Patrick Delsemme
Neal Foulds
Neal Foulds (born 13 July 1963) is an English former professional snooker player and six-time tournament winner, including the 1986 International Open, the 1988 Dubai Masters and the 1992 Scottish Masters, as well as the invitational Pot Bla ...
6–2
Tony Jones
Jimmy Michie
Jimmy Michie (pronounced "Mickey"; born 4 August 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Pontefract, Yorkshire, and a two-time WPBSA ranking tournament semi-finalist, who has also reached the World Snooker Championship. Mich ...
6–1
Shokat Ali
Shokat Ali (born 4 March 1970) is a snooker player who has represented Pakistan in international tournaments.
Bradley Jones 6–4
Mark Fenton
Mark Fenton (November 11, 1866 – July 29, 1925) was an American stage performer and motion-picture character actor who appeared in at least 80 films between 1914 and 1925.
Fenton had considerable experience performing on stage prior to ...
Michael Judge
Michael Judge (born 12 June 1975 in Dublin) is a former professional snooker player from Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest ranking, 24th, f ...
6–4
Jason Prince
Jason Prince (born 17 June 1970 from Derry) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player.
Career
Born on 17 June 1970, Prince turned professional in 1990, having defeated Fred Davis 10–5 to qualify from the professional play-offs. ...
Jonathan Birch 6–4
Paul Wykes
Paul Wykes (born 15 April 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Bournemouth, Dorset. He spent 16 years on the circuit and remained in the world's top 64 for 13 years.
Career
Wykes turned professional in 1991 and achieved ...
Kristján Helgason
Kristján Helgason (born 27 March 1974) is an Icelandic former professional snooker player.
Career
Born in 1974, Helgason turned professional in 1995. In 1998, he reached the last 48 at the Irish Open, losing 3–5 to Billy Snaddon, but made ...
6–5
Bjorn Haneveer
Bjorn Haneveer (born 4 September 1976 in) is a Belgian snooker player and commentator. Haneveer, formerly a professional competitor, now plays at semi-professional level and also commentates on snooker matches for Dutch Eurosport.
Career
A six ...
Stuart Bingham
Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner.
Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his pro ...
6–2
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, ...
Patrick Wallace
Patrick Wallace (born 20 September 1969) is a former professional snooker player from Dungannon in Northern Ireland. During his career, which lasted seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he won two non-ranking titles and was a quarter-finalist in ...
6–1
Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open.
Career
Early years
After some succ ...
Dave Finbow
David Finbow (born 27 February 1968) is an English former professional snooker player from Worcester.
Career
In his career, he managed to beat players such as Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ken Doherty and James Wattana. Originally a soccer player, he was ...
6–4
Nick Pearce
Nicholas Pearce, known as Nick Pearce (born 25 January 1967) is an English former professional snooker player.
Career
Pearce was born in 1967, and first attracted public attention at the age of sixteen when he appeared on ''Junior Pot Black' ...
David Gray 6–2
Gary Wilkinson
References
{{Snooker season 2000/2001
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
UK Championship
The UK Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament. It is one of snooker's prestigious Triple Crown events, along with the World Championship and the Masters. It is usually held at the Barbican in York, England. Ronnie O'Sull ...
Championship (snooker)
UK Championship
The UK Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament. It is one of snooker's prestigious Triple Crown events, along with the World Championship and the Masters. It is usually held at the Barbican in York, England. Ronnie O'Sull ...
UK Championship
The UK Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament. It is one of snooker's prestigious Triple Crown events, along with the World Championship and the Masters. It is usually held at the Barbican in York, England. Ronnie O'Sull ...