UK Championship 2013 - Draw Announced

The draw for the williamhill.com UK Championship 2013 has been announced by World Snooker. For the first time in it's history, every player will start from the last-128 stage and every match will be held at the main venue, The Barbican Centre, York.

The draw for the williamhill.com UK Championship 2013 was released today by World Snooker. Held from the 26th November to December 8th for the first time in the tournament's history, ALL the players will start the tournament from the very first round (Last 128 stage).

Ronnie O'Sullivan starts his UK campaign against Rhys Clarke

In addition to this every single match will be played at main venue, the Barbican Centre in York with BBC coverage of the event to begin on Noevember 30th with Ronnie O'Sullivan's and Ding Junhui's first round matches against talented amateurs Rhys Clarke and Antony Parsons.

Click here for ticketing information for the event and click here for the tournament format and schedule.

1		Mark Selby [1]		v			Shane Castle (a)
2		Tian Pengfei [64]		v			Pankaj Advani [65]
3		Ken Doherty [32]		v			John Astley [97]
4		Ben Woollaston [33]		v			Stuart Carrington [96]
5		Graeme Dott [16]		v			Fraser Patrick [113]
6		Nigel Bond [49]		v			Craig Steadman [80]
7		Allister Carter [17]		v			Ratchayothin Yotharuck [112]
8		Jimmy Robertson [48]		v			Li Yan [81]
9		Jamie Jones [41]		v			Gary Wilson [88]
10		Dominic Dale [24]		v			Vinnie Calabrese [105]
11		Cao Yupeng [56]		v			Zhang Anda [73]
12		Barry Hawkins [9]		v			Alexander Ursenbacher [120]
13		Anthony Hamilton [40]		v			Sean O'Sullivan [89]
14		Tom Ford [25]		v			Noppon Saengkham [104]
15		Gerard Greene [57]		v			Paul S Davison [72]
16		Shaun Murphy [8]		v			Lee Spick [121]
17		Judd Trump [5]		v			Gareth Allen (a)
18		Dechawat Poomjaeng [60]		v			Thepchaiya Un-Nooh [69]
19		Xiao Guodong [28]		v			Andrew Pagett [101]
20		Mark Joyce [37]		v			Jamie O'Neill [92]
21		Mark Allen [12]		v			Jak Jones [117]
22		Dave Harold [53]		v			Chen Zhe [76]
23		Michael Holt [21]		v			Lee Page [108]
24		Alan McManus [44]		v			Joel Walker [85]
25		Rory McLeod [45]		v			Martin O'Donnell [84]
26		Mark J Williams [20]		v			Allan Taylor [109]
27		Peter Lines [52]		v			Sam Baird [77]
28		Ricky Walden [13]		v			Cao Xinlong [116]
29		Fergal O'Brien [36]		v			Alex Davies [93]
30		Mark King [29]		v			Ross Muir [100]
31		James Wattana [61]		v			Ian Burns [68]
32		Ding Junhui [4]		v			Antony Parsons (a)
33		Neil Robertson [3]		v			Dylan Mitchell (a)
34		Aditya Mehta [62]		v			Robbie Williams [67]
35		Andrew Higginson [30]		v			Hammad Miah [99]
36		David Gilbert [35]		v			Li Hang [94]
37		Mark Davis [14]		v			Robin Hull [115]
38		Matthew Selt [51]		v			Scott Donaldson [78]
39		Joe Perry [19]		v			James Cahill [110]
40		Alfie Burden [46]		v			Daniel Wells [83]
41		Jamie Burnett [43]		v			Simon Bedford [86]
42		Ryan Day [22]		v			Chris Wakelin [107]
43		Rod Lawler [54]		v			T Thirapongpaiboon [75]
44		John Higgins [11]		v			Alex Borg [118]
45		Jack Lisowski [38]		v			Michael Leslie [91]
46		Liang Wenbo [27]		v			Elliot Slessor [102]
47		Mike Dunn [59]		v			Luca Brecel [70]
48		Stephen Maguire [6]		v			Sanderson Lam (a)
49		Marco Fu [7]		v			Mitchell Travis (a)
50		Kurt Maflin [58]		v			Liam Highfield [71]
51		Peter Ebdon [26]		v			Andrew Norman [103]
52		Jamie Cope [39]		v			David Morris [90]
53		Stuart Bingham [10]		v			Ahmed Saif [119]
54		Jimmy White [55]		v			Michael Wasley [74]
55		Martin Gould [23]		v			Chris Norbury [106]
56		Anthony McGill [42]		v			Kyren Wilson [87]
57		Yu Delu [47]		v			David Grace [82]
58		Matthew Stevens [18]		v			Ryan Clark [111]
59		Liu Chuang [50]		v			Tony Drago [79]
60		Robert Milkins [15]		v			Patrick Einsle [114]
61		Michael White [34]		v			Joe Swail [95]
62		Marcus Campbell [31]		v			Lu Haotian [98]
63		Adam Duffy [63]		v			Barry Pinches [66]
64		Ronnie O'Sullivan [2]		v			Rhys Clark (a)

Draw courtesy of Snooker.org