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
World Snooker Championship a break of 99, missing out on his century after he snookered himself. There were five entries in 1933 including 47-year-old Willie Smith who entered for the first time and met Joe Davis in the final. Smith had won the World Billiards Championship twice. The match was played at Davis's own snooker hall in Chesterfield. The match was close until Davis pulled away in the later stages, as he often did, winning 25–18. There were just two entries in 1934, Davis being opposed by Tom Newman, six times World Billiards Champion. The match was held partly in Nottingham before finishing