1990 UK Snooker Championship
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The 1990 StormSeal UK Championship took place at the Guildhall, Preston in November and TV stages shown on BBC TV took place between 24 November and 2 December 1990.
The final turned out to be one of the greatest finals when the two giants of the game, defending UK and reigning World Champion Stephen Hendry and 6 times UK and 6 times World Champion Steve Davis met each other in the final again. Hendry led 7-2 before Davis had a good lead at the final session. Then Hendry won the title with a break of 98 to become the second player (and so far the last apart from 3 titles between 1994 and 1996) to retain the UK title.
Hendry beat in the semi-final to 19 year old fellow Scot, Alan McManus who was in his first season 9-5. McManus had just beaten Dennis Taylor, Steve Newbury, Silvino Francisco and Jimmy White to make the semis while Nigel Bond who was a finalist the Grand Prix (snooker) a month previously made it to the quarter-finals losing to Davis.
[edit] Prize Money
Winner: £110,000
Semi-Finals: £30,000
Total: £445,000
[edit] Highest Break
140 John Parrott
[edit] The Contest
4th Round Best of 17 frames
Stephen Hendry 9-1 Tony Chappel 
Danny Fowler 9-5 David Roe
Gary Wilkinson 9-6 Doug Mountjoy
Jimmy White 9-5 Peter Francisco 
James Wattana 9-2 Darren Morgan
Alan McManus 9-? Steve Newbury
Silvino Francisco 9-5 Terry Griffiths
Joe Johnson 9-6 Gary Natale
Wayne Jones 9-7 Mike Hallett
Jonathan Birch 9-6 Tony Drago 
Willie Thorne 9-1 Colin Roscoe
Steve Davis 9-5 Barry West
| Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
| Stephen Hendry |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Neal Foulds |
2 | |||||||||||||
| Stephen Hendry |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Danny Fowler |
3 | |||||||||||||
| Danny Fowler |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Gary Wilkinson |
8 | |||||||||||||
| Stephen Hendry |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Alan McManus |
5 | |||||||||||||
| Jimmy White |
9 | |||||||||||||
| James Wattana |
7 | |||||||||||||
| Alan McManus |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Jimmy White |
6 | |||||||||||||
| Alan McManus |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Silvino Francisco |
4 | |||||||||||||
| Stephen Hendry |
16 | |||||||||||||
| Steve Davis |
15 | |||||||||||||
| John Parrott |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Joe Johnson |
8 | |||||||||||||
| John Parrott |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Tony Knowles |
7 | |||||||||||||
| Tony Knowles |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Wayne Jones |
8 | |||||||||||||
| Steve Davis |
9 | |||||||||||||
| John Parrott |
8 | |||||||||||||
| Nigel Bond |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Jonathan Birch |
6 | |||||||||||||
| Steve Davis |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Nigel Bond |
7 | |||||||||||||
| Steve Davis |
9 | |||||||||||||
| Willie Thorne |
5 | |||||||||||||
| UK Snooker Championship |
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| Winners and statistics |
| List of winners from 1977 to present |
