1999 UK Championship (snooker) seed with World Champion Stephen Hendry seeded 2. The remaining places were allocated to players based on the world rankings. Round of 128 Best of 11 frames Round of 96 Best of 11 frames 1999 UK Championship (snooker) The 1999 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, England. The event started on 13 November 1999 and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 20 and 28 November 1999. Stephen Hendry became the first player to make two maximum break in the tournament's history after scoring a
1978 World Snooker Championship and eventually won the match 25–18. Reardon became the oldest winner of the World Championship aged 45 years and 203 days this passed the previous record of Joe Davis who was aged 45 years and 33 days in 1946. This record still stands to this day. This was Reardon's sixth and last world title. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Numbers in (parentheses) indicate seedings. Sources: Source: There were seven century breaks at championship, the highest being 138 by John Spencer. 1978 World Snooker Championship The 1978