UK CHAMPIONSHIP STORIES: INTRODUCTION

As the qualifiers continue, the UK Championship hoves into view and I shall build up to it with a series of three articles.

These are stories about three players who have contributed considerably to the rich history of the tournament: Alex Higgins, Steve Davis and Ronnie O'Sullivan.

The stories won't be new to everyone but for younger readers or those who have recently taken to snooker it will hopefully be informative. I will be drawing on personal reminiscence, the testimony of others and old fashioned research.

It isn’t a comprehensive history of the event, although I wrote an overview of the UK Championship last year which can of course still be read at the following links:

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

I’ll start this series later with Higgins.