The 2020 UK Championship (officially the 2020 Betway UK Championship) was a professional snooker tournament, that took place from 23November to 6December 2020 at the Marshall Arena, in Milton Keynes, England. The event was the first Triple Crown and fifth ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season. The tournament was played behind closed doors due to COVID-19 restrictions. The event was broadcast by the BBC and Eurosport and featured a prize fund of £1,009,000 with the winner receiving £200,000.

The defending champion was Ding Junhui, who defeated Stephen Maguire 10–6 in the 2019 final. However, Ding lost 5–6 to David Grace in the second round.

Both Kyren Wilson and Stuart Bingham made maximum breaks in the first round of the event. On 28November, Trump became the fourth player to make 750 career centuries, during his last-64 match against Dominic Dale. Later in the tournament, on 4December, Robertson also completed his 750th century break in his quarter-final defeat of Mark Selby.

Neil Robertson won the title beating Judd Trump 10–9 in the final. At 9–9 Trump missed a simple final pink when only needing the pink and black to win the title, Robertson then potted the pink to win his third UK Championship.

Overview The 2020 UK Championship took place between 23 November and 6 December 2020 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. It was the fifth ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season, and the first of three Triple Crown events. There were 128 players from the World Snooker Tour taking part in the championship. All matches until the final were played over a maximum of 11 , with the final played as a best-of-19-frames match, held over two sessions. The first round of the competition started on 23 November, with players seeded according to their world rankings.

The defending champion was Ding Junhui, who defeated Stephen Maguire 10–6 in the 2019 final to win his third UK title. As defending champion, Ding was seeded first, with world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan seeded second.

Prize fund The total prize fund for the event was £1,009,000 with the winner receiving £200,000. The breakdown of prize money is shown below:

Winner: £200,000 Runner-up: £80,000 Semi-final: £40,000 Quarter-final: £24,500 Last 16: £17,000 Last 32: £12,000 Last 64: £6,500 Highest break: £15,000 Total: £1,009,000

Tournament draw The results of the event are shown below. The winners of each match are indicated in bold.

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Bottom half

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Finals

Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Olivier MarteelMarshall Arena, Milton Keynes, England, 6 December 2020. Neil Robertson (4) 10–9 Judd Trump (3) Afternoon: 55–31, 36–78, , , , , , Evening: 60–71, 129–9, , , , , , , , , 115 Highest break 128 3 Century breaks 1

Century breaks A total of 136 century breaks were made by 60 players during the tournament. Neil Robertson scored 13 total centuries, setting a record for the UK Championship – the previous record of 12 centuries was shared by Stephen Hendry (1994) and Ronnie O'Sullivan (2003).

147, 140 Stuart Bingham 147, 132, 132, 107 Kyren Wilson 146, 101 Hossein Vafaei 141, 136, 125 Kurt Maflin 141, 135, 114, 104 Zhou Yuelong 141 Chen Zifan 140, 121, 117, 106 Mark Selby 140 Yuan Sijun 139, 136, 133, 109 Chang Bingyu 139, 106 Zhao Xintong 139 Shaun Murphy 138, 131, 111, 102, 100 Matthew Selt 138, 104 David Gilbert 137, 126 Graeme Dott 137, 121 Daniel Wells 137, 116 Igor Figueiredo 135, 135, 132, 130, 130, 125, 122, 118, 115, 110, 104, 103, 100 Neil Robertson 135, 133, 128, 122, 120, 103 Stephen Maguire 134, 134, 133, 126, 123, 105, 103 Lu Ning 134, 127, 100 Anthony McGill 134, 101, 100 Li Hang 133, 112, 103, 102 Robert Milkins 133, 100 Gerard Greene 132, 107, 100 Jack Lisowski 132 Mark Allen 132 Gary Wilson 131 Jamie Clarke 130 Ding Junhui 130 Andy Hicks 130 Yan Bingtao 128, 118 Si Jiahui 128, 113, 109, 109, 107, 106, 103, 102 Judd Trump 128 Stuart Carrington 125 Jordan Brown 124 Luo Honghao 123 John Higgins 122, 105, 105 Luca Brecel 122 Barry Hawkins 121, 104 Xiao Guodong 121 Ronnie O'Sullivan 120 Chris Wakelin 119, 106 Mark Williams 118, 111, 105 Elliot Slessor 116, 116, 105 Jimmy Robertson 112 Liam Highfield 109 Jak Jones 108 Joe Perry 107 Sean Maddocks 106, 105 Lyu Haotian 105 Alexander Ursenbacher 104 Ali Carter 103, 102 Pang Junxu 102 Dominic Dale 101 Aaron Hill 101 Allan Taylor 100 Andrew Higginson 100 Simon Lichtenberg 100 Martin O'Donnell 100 Barry Pinches 100 Xu Si

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