Full tournament coverage from the 2012 UK Championship at the Barbican Centre in York.
This is the thread to discuss all of the action throughout the tournament.
FULL TOURNAMENT RESULTS
FINAL
Shaun Murphy 6-10 Mark Selby
SEMI FINAL
Ali Carter 8-9 Shaun Murphy
Mark Davis 4-9 Mark Selby
QUARTER FINAL
Ali Carter 6-4 Stuart Bingham
Luca Brecel 5-6 Shaun Murphy
Mark Davis 6-4 Matthew Stevens
Neil Robertson 4-6 Mark Selby
SECOND ROUND
Mark Joyce 2-6 Ali Carter
Matthew Stevens 6-4 Marco Fu
Stuart Bingham 6-4 Stephen Maguire
Graeme Dott 2-6 Shaun Murphy
Ryan Day 4-6 Mark Selby
Mark King 4-6 Luca Brecel
John Higgins 5-6 Mark Davis
Neil Robertson 6-2 Barry Hawkins
FIRST ROUND
John Higgins 6-3 Michael Holt
Barry Hawkins 6-4 Liang Wenbo
Stephen Maguire 6-2 Fergal O'Brien
Ding Junhui 4-6 Ryan Day
Mark Selby 6-3 Michael White
Graeme Dott 6-5 Martin Gould
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Robert Milkins
Mark Davis 6-1 Cao Yupeng
Judd Trump 5-6 Mark Joyce
Ali Carter 6-2 Steve Davis
Stuart Bingham 6-2 Jack Lisowski
Mark Allen 3-6 Marco Fu
Matthew Stevens 6-1 Dominic Dale
Neil Robertson 6-1 Tom Ford
Mark Williams 3-6 Mark King
Ricky Walden 5-6 Luca Brecel
All matches will be screened live on the BBC and online, plus daily highlights.
UK Championship 2012
posted on 10/12/12
Murphy gifted it to Selby, just missed far too many balls. Selby played defensively and make it pretty boring to watch.
posted on 10/12/12
Is it just me or is Selby's wife a good 10-15 years older?
Good to see Selby win, anyway. The Luke Donald of snooker no more. A boring watch, though.
posted on 10/12/12
So, Mark Selby took it 10-6.
Can't imagine those last three frames were much better than what I saw earlier last night, but by the sounds of things it was a deserved victory.
Going to watch the highlights later from the final frames that I missed - anything to look forward to?
posted on 10/12/12
RWK - to be honest, not really. Selby made a good break (I think to make it 9-6), where it didn't look like he would clear, but it was still pretty dour to watch and not really the free-flowing snooker that both these players can produce. Just as total one clearance snooker can be boring, hard graft all the time can be also.
posted on 10/12/12
Sorry, that was to make it 8-6. In fact, I have remembered one amazing bit, and that was the missed blue by Murphy to let it go to 9-6. If you are old enough to remember Willie Thorn's missed blue against Steve Davis in the mid 80s, well for me this is worse, especially after a few stunning pots leading up to it.
posted on 10/12/12
Didn't miss a lot then. To be honest I don't mind a tactical battle every know and then but, the majority of "new" snooker fans come to watch players like Ronnie & Judd. I think any of the newer fans were watching last night they'd have been put right off.
I'm not old enough to remember that, no. I should be proud shouldn't I?
What time did it finish anyway? I saw the BBC report was on at around 00:30 last night so it must have finished before 01:00?
posted on 10/12/12
It didn't finish much after midnight if I remember correctly. For me, the ideal final is when they are playing well and making good clearances, and then towards the final few frames it gets a bit twitchy and they miss a few and the tension is really racked up. Unfortunately for whatever reason it appeared that the occasion got to both of them (I believe they are both good frames) and the twitchiness almost started from the first frame!
posted on 10/12/12
The misses blue
posted on 10/12/12
missed^
posted on 2/1/13
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