The 2013 UK Championship (officially the 2013 williamhill.com UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 26 November–8 December 2013 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the sixth ranking event of the 2013/2014 season.
Mark Selby made the 100th official maximum break during his semi-final match against Ricky Walden. This was Selby's second official 147 break and the third maximum break in the 2013/2014 season.
Neil Robertson won his ninth ranking title by defeating defending champion Selby 10–7 in the final, despite trailing 1–5 and 3–6 during the match. Robertson became the eighth player to win all Triple Crown events at least once, and the first overseas player to achieve this feat. Selby became the first defending champion to reach the final of the UK Championship since Mark Williams in 2000.
Prize fund The total prize money of the event was raised to £700,000 from the previous year's £625,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £150,000 Runner-up: £70,000 Semi-final: £30,000 Quarter-final: £20,000 Last 16: £12,000 Last 32: £9,000 Last 64: £3,000
Highest break: £4,000 Maximum break: £55,000 Total: £755,000
Main draw
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore.Barbican Centre, York, England, 8 December 2013. Mark Selby (1) 7–10 Neil Robertson (3) Afternoon: 130–1 (130), , , , , , , Evening: 70–22, 0–101 (56), , , , , , , 130 Highest break 132 1 Century breaks 3 3 50+ breaks 7
Century breaks
147, 130, 129, 116, 109 Mark Selby 142, 112, 102 Stephen Maguire 142, 110, 106 Barry Hawkins 141, 132, 128, 123, 122, 119, 111, 107 Neil Robertson 139 Michael Leslie 137 Gary Wilson 137 Ricky Walden 136, 101 Dominic Dale 135, 128, 119 Ding Junhui 135, 127, 108, 100 Ronnie O'Sullivan 135, 108 Alfie Burden 133, 104, 103, 102 Judd Trump 133 Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 131, 131, 124, 107, 101 Stuart Bingham 131 Mark King 130, 128, 101 John Higgins 129 Nigel Bond 125, 106, 106 Xiao Guodong 122 Liam Highfield 120, 107 Liang Wenbo 119 Kyren Wilson 117 Alan McManus 117 Scott Donaldson 116, 103 Anthony McGill 116 Daniel Wells 113, 112 Mark Allen 113 Anthony Hamilton 112, 105 Jamie Burnett 110 Jamie O'Neill 110 Joe Perry 108 Noppon Saengkham 107, 104, 102 Graeme Dott 107 Mike Dunn 107 Jimmy White 105, 100 Robert Milkins 105 Michael White 105 Shaun Murphy 103, 100 Michael Holt 102 Yu Delu 102 Ali Carter 102 Fergal O'Brien 101 David Grace 101 Matthew Stevens 101 Liu Chuang
References
External links 2013 WilliamHill.com UK Championship – Pictures by World Snooker at Facebook