The 1988 UK Championship (officially the 1988 Tennent's UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 19 and 27 November 1988 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England. This was the last UK Championship to be sponsored by Tennent's; for the following two years the championship would be sponsored by StormSeal. The highest break of the tournament was 139 by David Roe.
Doug Mountjoy defeated Stephen Hendry 16–12 in the final and received the £80,000 winner's prize. Aged 46 years and 172 days, Mountjoy became the tournament's oldest winner, a record that stood for the next 35 years. Ronnie O'Sullivan superseded Mountjoy as the oldest UK Champion when he won the 2023 event aged 47 years and 363 days.
The final attracted an average of 13.2million viewers on BBC1, peaking at 16.3million.
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 31 frames. Referee: John StreetThe Guild Hall, Preston, England, 26 and 27 November 1988. Doug Mountjoy 16–12 Stephen Hendry First session: 75–25, 0–103 (103), 79–6 (71), 75–30, 25–113 (113), 81–47 (52), 87–0Second session: 124–7 (98), 62–65, 13–96 (68), 14–89, 37–72 (55), 79–9, 0-136 (129)Third session: 76–49, 71–41, 125–0 (81), 73–0 (72), 71–21, 131–1 (131), 106–0 (106)Fourth session: 129–0 (124), 15–96 (96), 54–66, 5–73, 21–80 (61), 43–56, 67–11131 Highest break 129 3 Century breaks 3 10 50+ breaks 6
Century breaks
139, 108 David Roe 136, 101 Steve Davis 136 Joe Johnson 134, 124, 108 John Parrott 133 Bill Werbeniuk 132, 113, 103 Stephen Hendry 132 Dene O'Kane 131, 129, 124, 121, 118, 106 Doug Mountjoy 128, 108 Terry Griffiths 128, 106 Cliff Thorburn 128 Robert Marshall 120, 118, 115 Dean Reynolds 118 Dave Martin
113 Steve Campbell 111 John Spencer 109 Marcel Gauvreau 108 Tony Jones 106, 104 Gary Wilkinson 106, 104 John Virgo 105 Ken Owers 105 Willie Thorne 103, 101 Jimmy White 102 Steve Longworth 101 Warren King 101 Martin Smith 100 Steve Newbury
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