UK Championship draw sees Ronnie O’Sullivan and Kyren Wilson handed tough first tests

The UK Championship gully has been made, with the main lawsuit getting underway connected Saturday day astatine the Barbican successful York.

Qualifying volition travel to an extremity connected Thursday evening successful Leicester, erstwhile 16 players volition person won their mode done to articulation the world’s apical 16 astatine the fashionable venue.

Defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has been handed a pugnacious archetypal task successful Barry Hawkins.

World fig 1 Judd Trump is looking for a 2nd UK rubric and volition statesman his run successful York against either Neil Robertson oregon Matthew Stevens.

World champion Kyren Wilson is looking to triumph the prestigious lawsuit for the archetypal clip and has been drawn against Stephen Maguire.

The archetypal players to travel done qualifying were Stuart Bingham and Jackson Page connected Wednesday day aft comfy wins implicit Jimmy Robertson and Hossein Vafaei respectively.

This year’s World Championship runner-up Jak Jones joined them, with Stephen Maguire the past to travel done connected Wednesday day acknowledgment to a melodramatic 6-5 triumph implicit Elliot Slessor.

In the evening league Jack Lisowski, Ryan Day, Wu Yize and Barry Hawkins emerged from their Judgement Day contests.

How to ticker the UK Championship

The BBC and Eurosport/Discovery+ volition beryllium showing the tourney live.

The schedules are disposable present for BBC and Eurosport.

UK Championship prize money

Winner: £250,000
Runner-up: £100,000
Semi-final: £50,000
Quarter-final: £25,000
Last 16: £15,000
Last 32: £10,000

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