The 2014 UK Championship (officially the 2014 Coral UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 November and 7 December 2014 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the fifth ranking event of the 2014/2015 season.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 5–6 against Graeme Dott in the last 16. This result led to Ding Junhui becoming the first Asian player to reach the world number one ranking.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his fifth UK Championship and his 27th ranking title by defeating Judd Trump 10–9 in the final. Trump had trailed 4–9 at one point during the evening session but fought back with 5 consecutive frames to level at 9–9 before O’Sullivan won the deciding frame.
Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 109th official maximum break during his last 16 match against Matthew Selt. This was O'Sullivan's 13th official 147 break and also the fourth maximum break in the 2014/2015 season and the third time in a row that a maximum was made in a UK Championship.
Judd Trump made his 300th career century during his last-64 match against Fraser Patrick.
Starting this year, the Semi-finals were reduced from the best of 17 frames to the best of 11 frames. This meant that all rounds up to the Semi-finals were played using the best of 11 frames format. The final was still played over the best of 19 frames. This is the format that is still being used to the current day.
Prize fund 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: £40,000 Total: £740,000
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: Terry Camilleri.Alexandra Palace, England, 7 December 2014. Ronnie O'Sullivan (4) 10–9 Judd Trump (11) Afternoon: 54–44, 32–87 (50), , , , , , Evening: , , , , , , , , , , 133 Highest break 127 1 Century breaks 2 6 50+ breaks 6
Century breaks
147, 133, 125, 117, 106, 104 Ronnie O'Sullivan 142, 137, 108, 103, 102 Stuart Bingham 139 Gerard Greene 139 Fraser Patrick 138, 125, 115, 103 Mark Allen 138 Michael Holt 137, 117 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 137 Igor Figueiredo 137 Shaun Murphy 134, 105 Ding Junhui 132, 126, 113, 108, 104 Stephen Maguire 132, 116 Nigel Bond 132 Matthew Stevens 131 Xiao Guodong 130, 129, 127, 120, 112, 110, 104, 102, 100 Judd Trump 129, 128, 101, 100 Ricky Walden 129, 128 John Higgins 127, 120, 117 Graeme Dott 127 Mark Joyce 127 Peter Ebdon 126 David Morris 124 Mark Selby 122 Matthew Selt 115, 105 Ryan Day 115, 103 Jamie Cope 114 Liang Wenbo 113 Michael Wasley 112, 106, 101 Marco Fu 110, 109, 109, 102 Ken Doherty 110 Jimmy White 110 Rod Lawler 109 Mike Dunn 109 Tony Drago 108, 106, 100 Neil Robertson 107 Ben Woollaston 107 Ratchayothin Yotharuck 104 Robin Hull 103 Luca Brecel 103 Rory McLeod 103 Anthony McGill 102, 101 Joe Swail 101 Barry Pinches 101 Mark Williams 100 Fergal O'Brien 100 Zhang Anda 100 James Wattana 100 Yu Delu 100 David Gilbert 100 James Cahill
References
External links 2014 Coral UK Championship – Pictures by Tai Chengzhe at Facebook