1997 UK Championship (snooker)
The 1997 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship professional ranking snooker tournament took place at the Guildhall, Preston starting on 12 November and TV stages shown on BBC took place between 22 and 30 November 1997. This was to be the last UK championship to be held in Preston which had held the contest since 1978. The following year's competition was held in Bournemouth.
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Stephen Hendry 10–6 in the final, ending Hendry's run of three successive UK championship wins. O'Sullivan had been the last player other than Hendry to win the event, as a 17-year-old in 1993. The highest break of the competition was 137 made by Stephen Lee and it was £5,000 worth.
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